What I Did Today Archive 2009

[crichmond]

Stole a brood frame full of honey from one of my beehives, mmmm honey on toast for breakfast..

Oh and replaced the frame with a brand new one with undrawn foundation.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Ran out crack of dawn this morning to find my greenhouse was being blown apart (plastic greenhouses are fine). My kitchen is now full of my toms and chillies. Can't plant anything cause it's raining, it's pouring and blowing a gale.

[Two_Sheds]

Very windy here today, bottles smashed (that'll teach me not to leave the recycling on the path).

- weeded for another 3 hours
- sowed more salads
- planted out onions that were started in cell trays
- picked a dozen Japanese onions for dinner that are bolting

[Meschuee]

Still no signs of my runner beans germinating. I'm being impatient, I expect. I got the hose out and gave the vegetables a good watering as it's been dry here for a week or so. Transplanted (from a rose tub) a rooted cutting of jasmine ("Clotted Cream") to a place among the climbing roses on the trellis that separates the vegetable area from the rest of the garden. Also sowed a wild flower mix around the veg garden.

[Newbie]

Finally persuaded OH to help me with the new flower bed (after i have marked it out & stripped all the turf myself!) so we got it all dug over & raked 4 bags of manure over the top - turning it into the soil is tomorrow's job. I then potted on 6 San Mizarno tomatoes, 3 Cayene Chillis & various Cucumbers, Marrows & Pumpkins. Watered everything that needed it & went to local GC to buy 4 growbags for the toms etc & 3 bags of muti purpose compost (on 3 for 2).

[selfraising]

Left plastic gh closed today as it was quite windy. When I got back from work I opened gh for a little while to allow air to circulate. Noticed red cabbage had germinated so potted those up. Planted yellow tumbling tom in hanging basket as it has several flower buds on it. Planted it up with a cut off plastic bottle for watering. Hoped it would rain today as the sky looks very heavy but no such luck. If we have no rain tomorrow I will have to resort to the hosepipe.

[bramble]

Sewerat, Hope Niamh and Iona are feeling better by now.

[Meschuee]

I was caught in a hail-storm on the way to get bamboo canes from the garden centre! I've just made a net-cage with them, for some of the peas



Put out the seedling vegetables to harden off and got out the tree lopper and pruned a columnar yew that casts shade over the vegetables. It's around 5 feet high now and needs more work on it.

Penny

[RobintheBobin]

Furtled around in the pot of pink banana seeds and found nothing but an ungerminated seed

Watered the soil as I applied the nematode treatment yesterday and it isn't raining here in a surprisingly sunny Reading.

Sowed some California poppies, Avalon squash and Butternet squash.

Realised I've run out of compost, I have no space for the tomatoes to go into their new big pots and decided I must surely get to the top of the allotment list soon...I must, I must, I really really must

[RobintheBobin]

Oooooo AND....the most important thing.....I became......A SPROUTER

[pigletwillie]

Finally the sweet pointy peppers, dorset naga, cayenne, peppadew and fat bangladeshi chiliies and peppers are in the allotment greenhouse as are a few aubergines.

We now have 85 tomato plants, 30 assorted chillies, 20 sweet pepper and 6 aubergine plants under cover. A handful will be planted outside as we have then left over.

More beans, peas and corn sown in pots at home, salads pricked out and brasicas potted on.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Cleared the wreckage from my 4 plastic greenhouses at 5am. Everything is sodden (when is the rain going to stop?). On a cheery note my cabbages and caulis planted at the weekend (into their permanent homes) have come on leaps and bounds, my carrots look like carrots and my potato onions are growing at a scarey rate

[BumbleB]

Still no proper rain but we did have a shower this morning while I was digging up plants from the front garden and moving to the back. New flower beds looking good especially with 3 new purple Senetti. Re arranged GH again and did lots of potting on. OH has taken lots of pics and also found pics from last july when we moved in - quite a difference, I must start a blog or home page.
Sunny this afternoon but wind trying to get up.

[Meschuee]

I've just put the patty pan squash seeds ("Patisson Blanc") in the little heated propagator and it's on the counter near the window in the kitchen.

I'm impatient for my runner beans to germinate and decided to poke around in the pots to see whether they are and I found shoots.

Penny

[sewer rat]

Late in from club last night - myself and a colleague were assaulted - nothing major and as they say "you should see the other guy" - anyway, witness statements taken, guy arrested and will now be on pubwatch for "life" although he can appeal after three years.
Came home, had a shower and went out to the field at 3:45am, just as it was getting light - picked veg for farmers market - lettuce, scallions, leeks, rhubarb, red kale, green kale, chard, various herbs (okay then - chives, parsley, mint and fennel). Back home for a coffee or six to wake me up.