What I Did Today Archive 2009

[Sanjo]

Dug out the old runner bean trench and put the soil on my new raised bed where I intend to grow mainly potatoes and poss. sweetcorn. Topped that with 2 bags of composted manure and one bag of multipurpose compost. Then put on the cardboard and black weed suppressant. Laid some cheap £1 shop weed suppressant along one edge of the new bed and topped that with home made shredded branches to make a path.

[Flobalob]

Today I dug alongside trellis which will be home to my runner beans. I also sown Brussel sprouts ( Nelson F1 ) & Cabbage ( Sovoy Estoril F1 ) Modules indoors.
Last week (25th) I sown Lettuce ( All Year Round ) & Radish ( Sparkler 3 ) Indoor raised bed.
26th..Propagating Leeks ( Lyon Prizetaker ) & ( Musselburgh ) Onions ( Kamal F1 ) & 10 peppers. ( Sweet Ramano )
28th..Spring onions ( Shimonita ) Module sown. Planted Rhurbarb ( Timperley Early ) Outdoor raised bed.
29th..Chitting Potatoes ( Duke of York ) Bought inside Strawberry plants for early forcing.
Water & winter feed for my citrus trees..Inside conservatory. Lemons,Limes,Kumquats,oranges.

[butter fingers]

today i dug over the area on my plot ready to plant my onions,shallots and garlic.harvested some leeks for the roast tommorrow if i can be bothered to cook it.
Next went to supermarket and bought some crusty bread for the veg soup i made yesterday in the slow cooker,which tasted suprsingly good.Then on to the garden centre to look at their potato seed collection.Home to sow some basil to go with the tomato seeds already sown last week.Finally watch telly.

[Herbie]

Pulled the last of the leeks ready for leek and potatoes soup. Moved carrots in the trough that have germinated into the greenhouse. (Never had such a sucessful carrot sowing) This method worked for me! Sown some lettuce last night placed in the greenhouse.

Today sown pea's (meteor) in tubes.(Non Moon Day) Will do some more on appropriate moon day.
Sweet Pea's Heirloom Mixed are chitting ready so sowing later.

[pigletwillie]

Today I sorted out exactly which varieties of tomato, sweet pepper and chilli I am growing this year. I also organised a load of seeds for sowing tomorrow which was great and started sorting out seeds to give away.

Will hopefully get down to the plots tomorrow and will sort out the fruit bushes which are spare and can be given away.

[FionaH]

Washed seed trays.
Put spuds out to chit.
Bought big plastic tray with lid for salady stuff.
Contemplated sowing stuff then remembered the weather forecast and that GH is not heated so didnt

[perkin]

Dug a trench at the foot of some trellis - half filled it with contents of kitchen composter - the runner beans will be very grateful.
Filled the new water butt (by the greenhouse) by means of emptying one of the older ones (by the house and will have to be temporarily moved while the kitchen extension is built).
Sowed a few yellow pear tomatoes and scotch bonnet chillis.
Filled the last raised bed with top soil - all ready for planting now: roll on April/May!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Bright but bloody cold at the Hill today where I finished making raised bed d1, and made raised bed c2.

[mr scott]

Today I took down my poly tunnel after it was ripped to bits by the wind a couple of weeks ago.
It's quite dead and will need a new cover.
I'm pretty sad about it, though i'll try not to sulk!

I'll take some money from the wedding fund, and hope my partner doesn't mind (find out!)

Nice to find this forum - this is my first post - hope i've got it ok!

[Flummery]

Yesterday I made a start on clearing the cutting border which I made last year. Got most of it cleared and added a few perennial flowers before I had to scrub up and go out.
Today we went to sort out a new car. We can collect the new one in about 10 days - which has nicely prompted him to pick up all the wood for the chook run next weekend - so he won't mucky up the new boot. RESULT!

[pigletwillie]

Today I sowed some tomato seeds,

Urbinaky
Aunt Judys green
Ferline
Sungold
French Black
Amish Paste
White rabbit

and some chillies

Fat Bangladeshi,
Mas du Diable Cayenne
Two Sheds Cayenne
Peppadew
Red hot cherry

as well as some fresh herbs and more brassicas.

[gardenplot]

Today have i been clearing the veg plots and getting them all weed free and ready for spring planting. Been garden shopping got my veg seeds and now itching to get started again

[Marthaclematis]

Today dh said 'shall we move that evergreen from back to front? As I've been waiting ages for him to be ready I thought I'd better say yes. Luckily it didn't take long becase as we got outside it started to snow, and there was a biting wind. Anyway its done now. The other thing was that I checked on my clematis twigs that I potted up; it seems that they are actually budding! Green shoots are opening. Hurrah! I might just work. I've never grown anything this way before.

[middlefield]

Popped-over to Wilko's and got some seed potatoes.

I went for Desiree for main crop, I've grown these two years running and had excellent results.

Sat with the seed catalogues this afternoon and put in an order for some of the more unusual seeds that aren't commonly in the shops

[Maffie]

I've sat for half a day wanting a greenhouse but OH says I shouldnt buy it as we dont own this house and he's not sure about moving it......