What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[binley100]

Managed to finally burn off the old wood and clear rubbish from last bit of lottie. Now have space to put up my GH .
Caqme home Cooked dinner, made Christmas Cake and steamed then pureed a BNS that was starting to go soft and froze it in cake making quantities.
Worked on edwardian seed research.

[Welsh Wizard]

Admired my overwintering broad beans: I sowed them 3 weeks ago and they are just popping their heads up now! Such an amazing plant able to thrive in the chilly late autumn!

[Bramble Lover]

Cut down all the growth from Jerusalem Artichokes and then attempted to lift them all.

Got a huge bucketful which will be given to the chef where I work for him to turn into soup.

Really need to clear the area of all traces of artichoke as I dont particularly want to grow it.

Obviously not done a brill job in past few years cos the b ugger keeps on growing!!

[Two_Sheds]

- planted out a grass and 3 pots of ........(...........)

[missalaska]

Mulched the strawberries, aubergines and bell peppers with straw.

[arpoet]

Picked up my pal then collected 5 sacks of donkey muck from a friends place, and took them down the lottie.
Had a mug of tea and a chockie biccie each.

Spread some old hos muck round me PBB and then a few bags of spent hops to top em off.
Had a mug of tea and a chockie biccie each.

Picked some savoys each, plus the last of the carrots (before it snows) and some sweeds. Also picked some Romanseco shoots.
Had a mug of tea and a chockie biccie each

Barrowed our share of a load of mushroom compost from the society shed, then went home frozen to death. Needed a stiff scotch to get me warmed up.
Roll on summer
Roger

[binley100]

Went to lottie.
Tried to get a fire going failed miserably, helped one of my neighbours move a oil drum for use as an incinerator. Carried on levelling for GH. Cleared yellow psb leaves. Dug up a parsnip ('nother biggie) and pulled a cabbage for tea. Went home to recover from frostbitten fingers (gwd help me when it gets really cold) glass of red's helping nicely

[solway cropper]

Made a big pan of winter vegetable soup (all home-grown produce), a loaf of bread and six cheese scones. Not bad for a bloke

Everything outside is waterlogged but, as in previous years I've grown a lot of stuff in containers so I don't have to tread in the quagmire to pick the day's veg. Had to cover the cabbages with netting as the birdies seem to have taken a fancy to them now there's not much else for them to nibble on.

[crazii_c]

planted my new Polka raspberry canes in two long containers. Also planted my new gooseberry bush in a container. Cant wait till to first crop of fruit next year.

[gojiberry]

Don't think I will get much done today as it was -3 last night and the ground is frozen. Have to make a wooden base for a recycled greenhouse that I recently aquired so will get on with that to start with. Still at Least I haven't had any snow yet.

Ian

[Two_Sheds]

- potted up 30 ivy & 6 Wandering Jew cuttings that have rooted in water
- squished green and whitefly that are covering every plant indoors
- picked the last chilli (red, in the gh!) and made a v.short ristra
- sowed a tray of wheat/oats/barley on a windowsill to provide guinea pigs with grass at Xmas
- cemented another 2' section of the greenhouse foundation
- fed the birds every hour or so with soaked sultanas
- wiped condensation & black mould from all the windowsills again

[rustylady]

Racked 2 demijohns of ginger wine - looking good.

[bramble]

Trudged to the supermarket through the snow to get food for our two cats.
OH forgot to get it so I decided to go before the weather got any worse.
Totally bogged down here with a good few inches of snow.
As we live quite close to the coast we don't usually get much snow and its set to get worse.

[bobleponge]

Spent 3 hours hacking and slashing the millions of blackberry strands that have covered the small stone flower bed just next to the cherry tree in the front garden.

[stella]

Put some bubblewrap round my poor frozen potatoes to see if I can save them