What I did today 2018

[Dynamo]

I bombed one of my greenhouses.



And also put the last bits of paint onto a sign I've made to help decorate somewhere on my allotment. It just needs a couple of coats of varnish now before I fix it.

[lolie]

General tidying up of plants after heat damage.

This is what 45+C does to zucchini plants.

[monkeyboy]

My seeds from moreveg arrived last night. Had a quick look through them. Quite excited!

[Bacchus]

I took a walk around my apple trees. One seems to have suffered a bit of damage and the main branches have broken.

This bramley however is proving to have a tenacious grip on its fruit. This is after the two big storms too.

[Chestnut]

Added a redcurrant and gooseberry to my future soft fruit zone, plus a bit of general tidying.

[bikermike]

Well, yesterday - First trip to the garden centre for the year! bought my chitting potatoes (too many Sharpes' Express, and a few Desree and [other variety I've forgotten]), some 50p plants, some more propagator tops for trays, a bag of compost and seeds. That's almost me done for the year.

[Jammers27]

Saturday- first trip to the garden centre, lovely to have a walk round.. picked up Lettuce, Toms x 2, Carrots, Spring onion, Peppers and some flower seeds. Compost and some snowdrops all ready potted

Sunday- Planted 2 rows of Carrots. Early Nantes 2 type and 2 rows or Spring Onion - performer type.
all in the heater propagator. read Monty Don Book and updated my diary with jobs done

[burnie]

Fixed the loose gate posts(wooden ones just driven into the ground)by hammering in some big bits of stone and planted around 50 daffs that I got free from the GC at the weekend(just sprouting, hopefully will be ok). Had a nosey round the green house, will need to pot/wooden trough on my indoor French Strawberries, but not yet look still dormant.

[Small pumpkin]

I planted my garlic and made a cloche for it to protect it from the worst of the weather.

[bramble]

Did some tidying in the greenhouse.
Took some withered leaves from my overwintering geraniums.
Put my seed potatoes in the conservatory to chit.
Feel we are getting just a little bit nearer to the growing season.

[bario1]

Scraped the nasty green 'carpet' off the surface of the soil around my onion sets in the polytunnel.
Pruned my redcurrant bush - hopefully i've done a reasonable job this time - last year I cut out ALL the old wood - which meant that I didn't get a single redcurrant this season - oops!
Pulled up a few weeds.

[Bacchus]

Today i took a walk into the poly tunnel... knocked some of the snow off, then came back inside and had some tea.

[lolie]

Divided my strawberry plants. They're not doing much anyway, so I don't think it will do any harm.

[Dynamo]

Despite the snow here today it was nice and warm in my greenhouse with the heater on and there was some extra warmth when the sun shone so I potted on 56 baby plum tomato plants. obviously I'm not going to grow them all myself. I've got a list of people as long as my arm who want some of the plants. There's still plenty left to transplant if many of these fail.

[jackarmy]

wow, whats the constant heat in your gh and what heater do you use ?