What I did today 2018

[skashax777x]

Traced some crawler roots to remove unwanted plants from my patch, beat the rain too

[Greenleaves]

Crawler roots ?

[bario1]

Got a rare stint at the plot today.

Planted some module sown broad beans (what was left of them - half got killed off by frost) in the polytunnel bed, maybe they'll provide a few early beans? Sowed another 16 in modules for the next lot.
Tidied up my brassica bed - pulled and composted any spent plants and debris. Tried to cover my perennial kale plants with netting as they're getting hammered by pigeons, but that was a dead loss in the howling wind!
Continued to excavate the area that will be a pond - dug out more weed and tree roots, placcy bags and bits of corrugated iron
Took a bow saw and some loppers to the straggly mystery tree. It's too big to dig out so i'm happy to live with it - at least it looks a bit tidier now.

[ESBkevin]

We collected a car trailer load of leaves from a local churchyard where they have thoughtfully piled them all up for us.
Finally got to prune the autumn raspberries and espalier fruit trees and gooseberries. I also lightly pruned the blackcurrent bush and stuck a dozen cuttings in the ground In my nursery bed in case hey take.
Finally filled three bags of rotted pig manure for the front garden and brought that home.

[bikermike]

lugged all 33 slabs (that I had lugged up from my parents garden into a van, then out onto our drive) to the allotment (you can fit 11 in a small Peugeot...)
pruned the bits of garden other than the wisteria (need the ladder for that).

next weekend is finishing off both jobs.

[bario1]

Roughly positioned my pond liner where I want it to be. If I can get it sited soon, I might even get some wildlife moving in this season?

[Small pumpkin]

made some plant labels.
That's it today because even with my new found enthusiasm for gardening when the weather is a little ****. I'm not going out there today!

[Dynamo]

I've just finished putting the footings down for my new greenhouse. I'll start fixing the base to the slabs etc tomorrow. I'm also going to sink some metposts and fasten the frame to them for a better fixing. It's a galvanised steel framed greenhouse with polycarbonate panes. I'm going to extra secure the panes to the frame with wire and glue. The wind won't beat me this time lol.

[jonny the plant pot]

Took the covers off so getting ready to start.

[Mr Bones]

Lovely and sunny earlier so spent all morning in the greenhouse sowing various onions, salad and broad beans.

[bario1]

Put 9 of last year's Charlotte potatoes in the greenhouse to chit. Watered my two leek seedlings. Great day's work!

[Chris11]

Trying to squeeze the best out of very basic heated propagators, which don't really get warm enough for optimum germination with chillies and sweet peppers.

I did have 2 small trays in each, with 6x6cm small pots in each tray, giving me a total capacity of 24 pots.

I've now replaced the trays with capillary matting from Wilko and I'm hoping this will bring the pots closer to the base heat, as well as distributing heat and moisture more evenly.

[Snadger]

Trying to squeeze the best out of very basic heated propagators, which don't really get warm enough for optimum germination with chillies and sweet peppers.

I did have 2 small trays in each, with 6x6cm small pots in each tray, giving me a total capacity of 24 pots.

I've now replaced the trays with capillary matting from Wilko and I'm hoping this will bring the pots closer to the base heat, as well as distributing heat and moisture more evenly.

I have damp sand in the bottom of my propagator.

[Aunty Social]

A bit of a hoo-ha as Musselburgh packet went missing for about 20 minutes.... first sowing of the year, Northern Lights and M. leek seeds on sunny windowsill with cling-film...... exciting! Yes, I need to get out more, don't I?

[Chris11]

I have damp sand in the bottom of my propagator.

I already had the same, with trays on top of the sand. I've put the capillary matting on top of the layer of sand. I've now removed the trays and put the small pots directly on top of the matting. Hopefully get the best of both worlds.

What do you do, put pots directly on to the sand?