What I did today 2020

[Bren In Pots]

Sown pre chitted peas in to guttering, finished potting of lettuce, sown another pinch of spring onions.

[bikermike]

mowed the plot (well, as much as I could on two batteries of strimmer).

The small person has an area to dig in, he was digging in there today "can I plant some seeds daddy? In here, for myself" So I dropped everything and cleared the bed. "We can get some seeds and plant them after lunch" "I don't want to plant seeds daddy" aaaaaaargh!

In the afternoon, I planted dahlia seeds and nasturtiums.

[bramble]

Moved all my bedding plants out of the conservatory and into the greenhouse.
Dead headed all the daffodils that have finished flowering and put them away under the balcony.
Watered all the greenhouse plants.

[Small pumpkin]

Uncovered the tunnel bed ready for digging.
Moved the micro greens growing area in the little tunnel and replaced with 2 fish boxes for cucumbers & courgettes.
Washed a lot of pots.
Scribbled a plan of what’s growing where. No doubt that will change.

[ameno]

Shredded all my accumulated prunings today (except the rose - too thorny). The home prunings (mostly buddleia) then went into the garden compost bin, and the allotment waste (mostly kale stems and cardoon roots and stems) will be taken back to the allotment for composting.

Also sowed some more pepper seeds, to replace the ones I accidentally fried.

[MartinRSharpe]

A few of the horse jobs needed doing today so after a few hours chain harrowing one of the fields I couldn't bring myself to then do large amounts of stone shifting on the new greenhouse project.

That'll give me some "lockdown exercise" during the coming week instead.

Instead I repainted/stained the outdoor raised beds. Some hadn't been done for years so was very much overdue.

Also got most of the automatic watering system in place in the polytunnel.

[annie8]

Got loads done yesterday. Finished the pea structure and planted the ones I had in the greenhouse and some more I had been chitting. Potted on courgettes and tomatoes. Rest of the time spent working on the front garden breaking up the big clods of topsoil, pruning, hoeing and replanting daisies and teasels that I'd temporarily moved. My husband built me 3 Wigwams for the sweet peas out of raspberry canes and will get the sweet peas planted out tomorrow I hope. Feeling a bit stiff and sore today.

[Containergardener]

^^^^^I detest bonfires . All my house neighbours seem.ro thrive on them grrrrr

[Gillykat]

Busy day planned on the allotment but barely managed an hour of tidying up random pots lying in various places and binning rubbish before we had to leave due to neighbour's son two plots down lighting a fire and the smoke was horrendous

Neil did manage to find a few tools buried in his shed and I showed him repairs that needed done to two rotten fence posts (replace them) and leaning-over polytunnel bed frames (remove bottom section completely).

I now have a list of jobs to do during the week so Neil can crack on with repairs next weekend

On way home popped into Wilko to get some ericaceous compost for potting on my two Duke blueberries tomorrow, some plant labels and the last bag of seed potatoes (Rooster) in whole shop! I think everyone is growing their own food this year!

[bikermike]

busy day of potting and planting
potted on some tomatoes from the propogator, re-seeded my misbehaving onions and leeks, sowed artichokes, sweetcorn, peppers, and lots of flowers.

I have now got all my trays, propogators and so forth in use.

[ameno]

Was going to do some more digging today, but my 15 asparagus crowns arrived this morning, so I planted those instead.
Also sowed some carrot seeds, and dug up my well past it kale, and took it and some other bits home to shred.

At home, I pruned the buddleia, and pruned the other massive rose. This one was even bigger than the other one - several stems had grown over 4ft last year, and one had grown over 5ft.
I don't know how they grow so damn much. I never feed them, yet they seem to double in size every year. Well, I sayI never feed them, but this second one is the the bottom corner of the garden where I bury all the cat mess. Maybe that's the secret? Cat manure.

I also fear I may have killed around half of my pepper plants. It was very hot in my conservatory this morning, and I left the propagator lid on (althoufh the heat was off), and many of the leaves are looking decidedly crispy.
Is it too late to sow more?

[Bonjour]

Nothing much on the gardening front. Commuted all the tender stuff out to the greenhouse. The forecast tonight is a minimum of 9 C so I'm leaving everything except the sweet potatoes and watermelon seedlings out there tonight. Put the various brassica seedlings outside to harden off., I'll be planting some of them out in a day or two.

Glorious sunny weather today, so this afternoon the shorts went on I spent a very pleasant half-hour sitting on the garden bench soaking my tired feet in a tub of hot, soapy water and catching some rays. Bliss!

[bramble]

Dug over the space under the wall.
Planted out another 50 sweetpeas.
Dug out some old roots of woody plants that had rotted.
Watered all the peppers and tomatoes.

[MartinRSharpe]

Primarily started the greenhouse re-location project.

The area the greenhouse is moving to had a stone building collapse on to it about 15-20 years ago and was largely left as is so has large pieces of stone mixed in with grass. The previous owner also used to use this area for deliveries of loose gravel so its all a bit of a mess.

Removed most of the grass and started collecting up the large (and heavy!) bits of stone.
Have transplanted a lot of the grass into one of the (currently empty) horse fields that has some areas that were just mud so hopefully some of that will take there and reduce the reseeding required this year.

It will take a few more days of work before I can start levelling and put the base in for the greenhouse but moving in the right direction.

[Containergardener]

Hurrah got outside without freezing

Sowed sunflower seeds
Took calendulas into gh after a space grab
Potted up some lillies
Finally dealt with hellebore clump from last yr that's been sat in a bucket as I damaged knee afterwards. Have 5 plants more now.
Fed Rose's,.clematis and azalea/rhodo
Prepped tea
OH cut the grass