What I Did Today Archive 2008

[sewer rat]

Today I lifted a barrowload of Sturon onions and half a barrow of red onions - not the bigest onions I ever grown but those I deem too small for sale will be pickled (the Sturon) or turmed into onion relish / marmalade (the reds)
Started to clear my courgettes and stack the tyres down one side of the tunnel to act as a winter wind buffer.

[A Life Less Simple]

Today I lifted a barrowload of Sturon onions and half a barrow of red onions - not the bigest onions I ever grown but those I deem too small for sale will be pickled (the Sturon) or turmed into onion relish / marmalade (the reds)
Started to clear my courgettes and stack the tyres down one side of the tunnel to act as a winter wind buffer.

What is it you use your tyres for? I've got loads round the place but never really sure what to do with them other than grow spuds in, which I do in sacks

[Jameslovell]

Today, I finished placing the raised bed frames I have built so far. Collected compost (3 fro �10 offer at Wickes so got 6) and collected some free manure from a lovely lady at a local riding school. Even though I didn't do much, felt like I made good prep work for doing things tommorrow.

[porridgemaker]

Today I sowed cherry belle radish and rainbow chard. Put compost, grass clippings, lime on some of the beds. Gazed at my 'summer' (Yeah southern hemisphere) garden in horror. We had a hard frost Saturday- dead are 60 tomato plants 14 cape gooseberries 12 courgette plants 3 spag squash, 8 butternut plants. My summer vege. They are totally mush. Rotting. I needed everything to harvest by march as we are moving. I will need to start again with containers now- gold nugget and baby bear, acorn bush pumpkins, tigerella toms. Peppers and cape gooseberries.

Grrr the best sowed plans..........
Good excuse to buy more seeds.

[Two_Sheds]

today: I picked up a smashed greenhouse and all it's contents.

[zazen999]

chopped down flax, quinoa and cape gooseberries - plus the marjoram.

Got given a crown of mint from neighbour - so I'll offer it up on here if anyone wants a snatch of it.

Planted out onions, banana shallots and corn salad from seeds sown a while back.

[womble]

Bought 2 standard blackcurrants and a fig tree for the princely sum of �2.97 from Focus.

Dug up a parsnip the size of a London bus!

[BrideXIII]

another two gallons of mixed fruit wine made up and set to ferment.
small sack of onions peeled for pickling.

lamb stew, slice dice, season .............DONE!

[Becca]

[QUOTE=womble;307042
Dug up a parsnip the size of a London bus![/QUOTE]

I had one of them, my first ever parsnip! I'd expected a supermarket size one and it was huge, probably a foot and a half long and fat and very tasty! OH couldn't believe how excited I was about it, I even photgraphed it before cooking a roast especially to eat it with.. looks like the rest are the same so I don't think I need to worry overly about the fact that only 1 row daned to grow for me

[Flummery]

Used good windfall apples to make my Christmas mincemeat. Cooked the rest - large cauldron full to go in pie-sized quantities in the freezer.

[wellie]

Looked at Giant Kilner Jar of Damson Brandy and thought "Must strain that and make Damson Blow Your Sox Off Chutney with that fruit".

Note to self: Must get out more.....

Then cooked Trousers' and Piglets' dinner......!

[zazen999]

Yesterday: Harvested some oca, carrots, swede and nice fat leeks. Thus had roasty dinner for tea.

[womble]

Built a leaf cage thingy, wandered round the garden for an hour arguing with myself about where to place it, then put it in exactly the same place as the leaves last year

Wondered how the S&S's have eaten so many of my sprouts..... then noticed that each eaten sprout has 4 tiny sprouts growing from it! Is this like the "cut the cabbage into 4 when the head has been taken" thing?

[zazen999]

Today: put 2 asparagus crowns in the ground [thanks James], harvested some potatoes that were in the ground where the asparagus was going, and some echinacea & honesty seeds and took cotton lavender cuttings.

[Two_Sheds]

bought some lovely Hellebores from eBay ... the ground isn't ready for them, so I potting them up and putting in cold greenhouse for the winter.