What I did today 2018

[muck lover]

Umm nice sunny day thought dry some washing, clean car, bit of gardening. No such luck.....

Rodding my poxy drains again.

(rodded from access point on Sunday). Touch wood I have got it all and that is it for another 3 years.

Hope everyone is doing nicer things than me

Can’t think of much less pleasant activity.
Today I planted onions and shallots sets. A lot of the overwintering onion sets died off.
I cleared up a terrible mess in polytunnel - needed done.
I moved a mini greenhouse into the polytunnel to create a seed germinating area. The thing is very old and it’s held together by bits of string. It wouldn’t survive outside. I am a bit worried it’s going to collapse anyway. If I see a cheap one I’ll get it. Anyway I’ve sugar snap and mangetout peas, some strawberries, few salad beetroot for leaves, potatoes in pots and some calendula seeds which haven’t germinated out in polytunnel.

[Baldy]

Took it easy today. Couple of lines at the plot...


... Lisbon spring onions.

Tidied up the piles of MFBs that seemed to have reproduced over the winter. A couple of MFBs full of docks and couch - created a weed drying area using chicken wire then hung the couch etc to dry...
Potted on some golden cayenne chillies.
Looks like rain again tomorrow but I'm in the mood at the moment so intend to make the most of it.

[SarrissUK]

I had an unexpected day off today and what a gorgeous day it was today! I filled four ik3a bags with home made compost, then normal compost on top. Planted a dozen strawberry plants, sowed tomatoes, cucumber, courgettes, trombos!, french beans, mangetout, strawberry seeds... I let the chickens out for a good runaround and they loved frolicking in the sun! I replaced two broken panes in the greenhouse once I realised I had a few spare ones! I assembled my potting table that was dismantled in prep for the Sweden move which never happened, and I tidied up in the greenhouse. Incredibly productive day. Let's hope for more of those!

[bramble]

Bought a big bag of Oriental Lily bulbs in Lidl.
Potted all these up this afternoon.
Potted on the last of my chilli peppers.
Watered all my Sweet peas.
Planted up two half barrels of first early potatoes.

[1Bee]

Lifted a path, leveled the ground and laid a new one. Assembled 2 cheapy garden arches and put them in place for the bean tunnel, connecting and reinforcing with canes. Moved a compost dalek and sundry sorting and tidying.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Lots done today.

Mowed the lawn.

Planted leeks in a planter I’m using as a seedbed.

Planted bunching onions, Swiss chard and perpetual spinach in modules. These were suitable for direct sowing outside from April so I’ve left these in my unheated growhouse outside, I assume they will be fine in there?

Also sowed calendula, basil, summer savoury, busy lizzies and cosmos indoors in modules/trays which are in either my unheard windowsill propagator or my heated propagator.

Sowed carrots, parsnips and radishes directly in my raised beds.

Potted on the rest of my chilli seedlings into individual pots. These will stay indoors on the windowsill until May probably, hoping to get them out into the growhouse by then (tomatoes too).

I was planning to sow my cucumber seeds but for some reason I couldn’t find them. I may have to get some more.

I’ve still got rocket and lettuces to sow, I’m planning to start these in modules outside so I might give it a few weeks.

Oh and yesterday I managed to divide some of my mint in pots and pot on my Ruby Beauty pot raspberry which was in far too small a pot. Put it in a bigger pot with some fresh compost, fed it some BF&B and mulched it with some rotted manure and strulch. I’m not sure we’ll get much of a crop from the twiggy stems that grew last year but hopefully this year’s will be much stronger.

[self-contained]

Mulched my gooseberry bush and rhubarb with some not-quite-finished compost I set going last year (in a box far too small to make good compost, so the results are actually much better than expected). Nothing's been digging in the box (which was only covered by a couple of old compost bags) so I think I'm safe using it. I'll need to keep an eye out for weeds, but that's why I've used it where I have as they will be easy to spot in those containers.

Went to the bottom of the garden to see how the mound of hedge clippings and grass is looking. The bottom layer looks pretty well composted, and has a decent texture considering I put precisely no effort into it and just dumped garden waste there that wouldn't fit in my green bin. Unfortunately, the local cats seem to have taken a fancy to the pile (maybe it was giving off heat?) and turned it into a bit of toilet. Not keen to use it on my veggies now, but maybe I can scatter it on my lawn? (Not too worried about weeds as it's a mossy, weedy lawn anyway).

[Baldy]

Rained till 2pm so was somewhat hampered today - still, I sowed a few tom seeds in the GH and some cheap cucumber seeds from Lidl. Potted on a couple of chilli plants.
Went to the plot later in the afternoon - too wet to do much productive outside so carried out some running repairs/enhancements to the little GH there. Whiled away half an hour watching the tadpoles in the pond.

[Dead Dogs]

Another, mostly, dry day and no other commitments. So down the plot it was. Finished sorting the area for the spuds and planted out six rows.

[AmateurOne]

Sowed Rainbow Swiss Chard. Transplanted some more lettuce in the raised beds

[Bex2012]

Gorgeous day yesterday spent at the rugby... woke up this morning and its chucking it down! As the plot had standing water on it last weekend, I wont be over there today for fear of ruining the soil. I need to go to the gc for some ericacious compost, so I’ll do that and then potter indoors I think. Im sure I can find more seeds to sow!!!

[Aunty Social]

Raised beds finally up. If the veg doesn't grow this year, that's it, I give up.

[Eric44]

Sunny afternoon in South Wales so pruned my pear tree. Still squelching across the lawn though!

[bramble]

Dug over the borders this morning and planted out all my sweetpeas this afternoon.
Potted on some chilli and tomato plants.8
Beautiful sunny day with just one or two quick showers.
Finally feeling like spring.

[1Bee]

Planted out broad beans, and set up their supports. Cultivated a patch at the end of bed 1 that will have sweetcorn later and will handle some quick salads until then. Took the peas down to the plot for hardening off. Planted up six strawberry elsanta from L!dl into milk container halves and hooked them up.