What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[Suky]

Stole a foot from the lawn along a 25ft border to increase the space to grow a dwarf victoria plum and a row of raspberries. My hubby won't notice, will he? Nah, 'corse he won't

[wellie]

After I'd traced out what seemed like a million Ground Elder Roots amongst a few Herbaceous Clematis Friends, I hit my very favourite family Garden Centre. I was looking for inspiration for plants that I might 'take custody of' and grow on toward stealing a few precious points from Storming Norman at my local Village Show this year for various classes. And I have to say, they've never disappointed me yet.X.

Back home, in between my cat needing to rugby-tackle my ankles every single time I walked from the greenhouse to the conservatory (which was every 5 minutes) I finally managed to pot on the seed potatoes that I wanted to. I'm doing that, into pots big enough to take a single tuber, because I just cannot make my mind up exactly where, rotationally, my tubers are going. Call me an idiot if you like, but it does give me a weeny bit of breathing-space, because by the time I've mentally sorted it, they'll have nicely rooted into the pots, and be at a perfect stage for planting. Even if I have to adopt the Black Polythene Method as a last resort.
Thank you for listening.

[Snadger]

Took a bit of a tumble whilst spreading muck last night and woke up this morning paining all over!
Raspberries are mulched anyway!

[bramble]

Oh Snadge, hope you're not in too much pain. trake it easy and treat yourself.

[bramble]

Have spent the week weeding my too big border which I designed before I thought about how I would reach into the back of it to weed and plant it up.
Anyway its done now and my self sown sweet peas are all planted out along my south facing wall. Am waging a major war on my two cats trying to keep them from digging them up.
Potted on all 48 of my tomatoes and 22 peppers. Planted up some hanging baskets and window boxes which will be kept indoors until the weather gets better.
My vales emerald and another salad potato that I can't remember the name of at the moment have reached the top of their containers so I am covering them at night.
Moved all my strawberry plants into bigger pots (lots of the early ones full of blossom now).
Fed every plant that I own and put fresh soil around anything in pots since last year.
All in all a very productive week.
Bought plug plants of fuschia, geraniums bacopa and swann river daisy and have potted these into bigger pots as well.
My conservatory looks like a garden centre.
Roll on better weather so they can all be put outdoors.

[trolleydolly]

We planted garlic (late I know), but we'll see what kind of harvest we get, and 150 red and white onions

[Two_Sheds]

- dug over a nettle patch & planted yellow dwarf frenchies in it
- dug over a couch grassy patch for my neighbour
- painted half the shed (Sage)
- paid a nice man to erect my greenhouse
- spent an hour filling the new greenhouse
- repotted lilies (one pot had lots of vine weevil larvae in it)
- sowed Conqueror sweetcorn into loo rolls
- sowed carrots (Fucino & Purple Dragon), salad & Chioggia beetroot on the lotty
- sowed 4 rows of chitted Gladiator parsnips
- dug over another bed for my neighbour (easy: she's had it under carpet for 6 months)
- picked 4 pints of dandelion heads & started a brew with them
- racked all my wine (the Elder is just like port: lush)

[selfraising]

Planted three saxifrage and two fritillaria crown imperial in flower border plus a rosemary in a container, two lavenders in small containers. Put together and erected one arch and am hoping to grow either toms, cucs or squash over it. A second arch to go further down the garden. Pulled out willow screening and hammered in 5ft posts to attach the screening to. Cleared broken pots. Planted coriander seedlings in a container. Forked over front garden and put log roll around border. Ordered canes, grow bags, grit, bark and more 5 ft posts from gc. Brought beetroot seedlings out of mini gh. Watered all containers.

[Welsh Wizard]

Constructed a new 4x4 bed: filled with some bought in cheapo compost. I am desperate for more bed space as I have trays and trays of goodies needing planting out, dwarf frenchies Beste von Allan are now 8 inches high from a 1 inch module! The leeks and spring onions are also begging for more more room and have to go in the ground soon, and the beetroot is so over crowded following excellent germination that damping off is inevitable if not planted out in next day or two. Looks like I will be constructing more beds tomorrow too!

Chillis need repotting also.

[sewer rat]

At the walled garden reclamation today - finished hand digging / weeding the bed along the east wall and started digging over / weeding what was the fruit bed, underneath a row of pear trees which were planted between 1958 and 1960., So to date I have dug over both long borders, the border along the east wall, the rose bed in front of the summerhouse, started into the fruit border and cleared all the trees and scrub from what was the veg garden (my plan is to get agreement to have this terraced as far as the apple trees, with the top tier being held back using cut lengths of the many many sycamores that I felled over the winter months. Anyway, if you're interested, have a look at my album, just updated it.

[Welsh Wizard]

Good job sewer rat! Huge project!

[trolleydolly]

Just back from the lottie, Me and the OH dug the large remaining bed, which was then rotavated
to break down the soil. Knackered, but boy did it feel good!!!

[selfraising]

Planted some more perennials, 3 lavendars and some celery leaf. Took stock of how many tomato varieties I have so I can work out how many containers I need and the same with peppers and aubergines. Watered the garden as everything was bone dry.

[Welsh Wizard]

Cut and jointed timber for two 8ft by 4 ft beds.
Planted out beetroot seedlings, leeks, yellow dwarf french wax beans. First feed of the season for the tomato plants, added some controlled release balanced fertilizer pellets to their pots and watered. Moved some outside ones in as they were starting to stunt due to insufficient height in the cloche and low temps in these clear nights. Weeded the beds and had a furtle: found direct sowed french beans, peas and broad beans all rooting and sprouting, so shouldnt be long before greenery emerges.. Also, (miracle of miracles) my shallots are starting to spring to life after a very long wait...

Garlic is doing well, now really putting up loads of greenery.

Sweetcorn has germinated well, only problem is going to be fitting all the plants into the block the planting scheme. It looks like I could have 40+ plants easily just from the first sowing, and I had planned a later sowing also.

Cucumbers up also, another 100% germination thanks to cheshunt compound which seems to be helping with prevention of damping off and seed rotting. 30+ cucumber plants might be overkill for my needs. Looks like the neighbours might be getting some spares!

[binley100]

Spent the morning making Pickled Green Cabbage (with the doors and windows wide open!)
Spent the afternoon seed sowing Lavender (thankyou to barley sugar) Runner beans . Potted on Gherkins .
Spent evening trying not to fall asleep in front of telly.