What I Did Today Archive - 2010

[selfraising]

Cut down remaining perennials and mulched. Emptied containers of compost into bags to save and mix with new next year. Went to garden centre and bought some winter bedding plants. Sowed 6 rows of Aquedulce Broad Beans. Potted up strawberries that were in containers. Made Quince and calvados jelly and some quince cordial. Now have Quince pulp cooking to make Membrillo.

[binley100]

Today I have......
walkedJake
swept the floors
hung out the washing
emptied the dishwasher
put the meat in t'oven on the timer
drove to the lottie
turned the current compost heap
riddled some more of the old compost heap
cleared, manured , top dressed with compost then covered the bed for next years brassicas
harvested fennel
cleared away yellowing brassica leaves
harvested a cabbage
dug up my first ever parsnip
moved sammy snake to guard the onion sets I'd put in (birds pulling them out)
came home via Asda (needed potatoes)
fetched in washing
cooked dinner including pudding
cleared up and filled dishwasher...........

[Snadger]

Today I have......
walkedJake
swept the floors
hung out the washing
emptied the dishwasher
put the meat in t'oven on the timer
drove to the lottie
turned the current compost heap
riddled some more of the old compost heap
cleared, manured , top dressed with compost then covered the bed for next years brassicas
harvested fennel
cleared away yellowing brassica leaves
harvested a cabbage
dug up my first ever parsnip
moved sammy snake to guard the onion sets I'd put in (birds pulling them out)
came home via Asda (needed potatoes)
fetched in washing
cooked dinner including pudding
cleared up and filled dishwasher...........

And what did you do AFTER breakfast!

[binley100]

And what did you do AFTER breakfast!

Chatted on the vine of course....

[Snadger]

After work I went to allotment (don't I always?) Cleared out the withered french beans from a large tub, tickled the compost over and filled tub with japanese onion sets!
Raked away the remains of my pumpkin leaves, tickled the soil and sowed some Aquadulce broad beans. Covered area with wire netting and a pierced plastic bread tray to try and deter mice or any arial interference! Collected 10 eggs today and put six in my honesty box.
Harvested carrots,leeks, turnip and some onions from storage for a broth tonight. Broth weather just now, so I'll keep some for my bait tomorra!

[bramble]

Went out for the day as it was a bank holiday here.
Went up north and got 60 minature daff bulbs for a 5er, so guess what I will be doing tomorrow?
The day was a lovely dry sunny (if a bit coolish) day .

[StephenH]

On Sunday I prepared the bed where my broad beans are going to be sown soon, by digging in the mustard that was growing there as a green manure, and liming (my pH gauge showed the soil to be somewhat acid). I also dug compost trenches where my french beans and climbing peas will be going in the Spring, and started filling one with kitchen waste, and started collecting dead leaves from nearby trees for this year's leafmould.

[Bigmallly]

Prepared beds for winter bedding, potted up 60 Rosebud Primrose to go into the beds, potted up 6 containers with spring bulbs. Thank god for the GH, it's chucking it down.

[maytreefrannie]

Planted 25 garlic bulbs from some delicious Spanish garlic.

Moved 2 bins, each with one potato, into polytunnel.

[Newbie]

I moved the pallet compost bin from one side of the garden (shady side) to the other (sunnier), then i moved all the non-rotted contents into the newly sited bin, and the rotted contents onto the empty veg bed. Then i emptied the 1/3 full dalek compost bin contents into the pallet bin and topped it off with a few shovels of bark chippings and covered it with an old fence panel until it all rots down a bit. Dalek bin is now empty & ready to be filled with the last of the tidying up from around the garden. After that i raked 70+ wheelbarrow loads of bark chippings on the paths around the veg beds (moved the bark all last week with OH). Pooped now so treated myself to sticky toffee pudding & ice cream!

[susieq100]

Had a smashing time at the plot this afternoon - perfect gardening weather - mild, clear with virtually no breeze. Cleared out the two raised beds, weeded the leeks, barrowed 5 loads of well rotted horse manure onto the beds where my spuds will be planted in the spring and covered over with cardboard. Picked leeks for dinner tomorrow. Was given a red cabbage for pickling, picked some pathetic cauliflowers (fist size .. but ideal for soup) and just pottered about generally tidying up. Lovely!

[Two_Sheds]

- planted out 120 autumn onions, rooted in modules first (Radar & Snowball)
- pulled outside leaves from celeriac
- planted out 5 baby black kales that were lingering in the gh
- pulled yellowing leaves off parsnip (& dug up 8 for dinner)
- pulled up half a dozen raspberry suckers, nobody wanted so composted them

[Liza]

Relocated two rows of raspberrys to my new fruit lottie, tidied a bit, in a T shirt all day !

[wellie]

Rather than go for a long walk today, with my hurty Sacro-Illiacs, I decided to ring the changes, and just please my doctor by walking my Prolotherapy in my own Back Yard.

With me not being 'dead fit' for a while, the grass has not been mowed for a fair few weeks now, and, rather than walk over the Old Severn Bridge today, I opted for walking round the kitchen garden, with a lawnmower in front of me.
To be perfectly honest, it's not the most brilliant idea I've had this year, because I can barely walk now this evening, but I'm never shy, and it did get the sodding grass cut eventually, which was my sole purpose......

[Herbie]

Collected some dried seed to save for next year (Runner beans and heritage beans). Sown two pots of peas for shoots, and one tray of broad beans. Swept up leaves. Need to get garlic in tomorrow along with onions.