What I Did Today (Undercover)

[VirginVegGrower]

Doors opened early this morning. Nearly 40�c in the poly at 09:30 - flippin eck! Greenhouse open and have sown Piacenza Savoy cabbage, CDN kale, basil in pots using Lidl seed discs. Tomatoes and peppers are thriving just fine at night time temps in there.

[wizzbang]

Filled the greenhouse up with books which have been stored in Ikea blue bags in my upstairs since February while the work has been going on for the renovation. In a week it should all be over and I will have a kitchen (yeahhhhh) and a bathroom (yippee) and carpets (woohooo) and windows (whitwhoo) and by the end of next week I should be able to move those books back into what will be my home.
I didn't do any gardening again yesterday but I looked at it and enjoyed it.
Looking at and enjoying the garden is something that we gardeners don't often get chance to do without tweeking or nipping or pulling weeds is it!
Lynne x

[SarzWix]

I watered today too, while it was overcast so hopefully the plants will get the water instead of it just evaporating! I also fed the onions in the hope of speeding them up a bit

[VirginVegGrower]

Planted Cyril's Choice and Grushovka tomatoes into the polytunnel beds - first two spaces. Watered and misted. Planted peppers into Morrisons pots where they will grow on the hanging shelves in the polytunnel. Watered in the greenhouse and moved things around. Hot hot hot in there today.

[running_muttley]

When the mice ate all my squash seeds I replanted but 1st rolled the seeds in hot chilli powder. They didn't eat those ones.

[VirginVegGrower]

My tomatoes have been in the greenhouse for over a week night and day, uncovered. Today some got planted into the ring culture pots in the greenhouse. Peppers are in there now, hardening off too. Took the opportunity to clean the greenhouse and put my new stool in
Seaweed fed the poly tunnel plants, also planted toms. Pricked out more blessed brassicas. Hoping to offload a few up at the lotty!

[SarzWix]

I'm frantically trying to keep up with potting up, and rapidly running out of space in the heated g/house. The tomato and chillis sown by gardening group at school are now in the allotment g/house (unheated) with a double layer of fleece, and seem to be surviving okay. Some of mine are going to be making the trip there this weekend too, the forecast for the next two weeks is looking promising; only one night around 0c. Next on the potting up list; squashes and courgettes.

[salilah]

We're off on holiday on Saturday for a week - so I decided to risk it! Tomatoes are now planted out in the GH bed (14 or 15 of them - oops!) with sticks, well watered, and I'm activating the watering system for that side of the GH (as I'm away every week, both the GH bed and the staging get timed watering...)

Think I ought to take the risk and put the courgettes out also - not so sure about that? The bed is ready (other than the cats using it as the local lavatory)...

Chillis, aubs, still in small pots on staging - but the cucumbers and the last 2 melons (last surviving) went into Morrisons buckets on the GH floor last weekend - looking happy!

[Yorkshire.Dave]

Built a homemade trellis for the charentais melon in my new polytunnel and then filled a few large pots with compost ready for the chillies/toms....I was in the tunnel with 3 hoverflies and then 2 big bumble bees turned up in there so I guess that's a good sign for my chillies and tomatoes etc in the summer :-)

[VirginVegGrower]

Watered watered watered. Sowed parsnips the other day too and forgot to record.

[VirginVegGrower]

Polytunnel : - Noticed that daughter's own sown climbing peas are through - excellent. Potatoes are sprouting more so earthed up around them. Tipped the equivalent of 1.5 large trugs of compost on the area that the celeriac came out of. Moved some seedlings out of the greenhouse into there.
Greenhouse:- trying to make room now that my tomatoes are getting larger, as I will soon need the floorspace. Moved plants out and moving plants back in.

[hydrogardener3]

Today, April 28, 2013, I transplanted my tomato seedlings into autopots and "officially" opened my greenhouse for the season, as it is not practical to move them back indoors when the weather turns cold. If it becomes necessary I will heat the greenhouse.

[VirginVegGrower]

Have potted on some more tomatoes. Used child labour to ferry my tomatoes, Oca and sweetcorn from house to greenhouse - thanx chickee - unfleeced my potatoes in the poly. The rest is taking its chances
Having a coffee and a sit down whilst playing the toms a bit of Heart FM THEY LOVE IT

[Ericthehalfabee]

Anxiously removed the fleece from the tomatoes, cucumbers and courgettes in the gh at 9 a.m .. having seen the fields white with frost under a clear blue sky a couple of hours earlier. Looks like all is well, but expecting to have to get the fleece out again for the next few nights.

Meanwhile, noticed that the surface of the compost in pots is looking a bit green, so going to cut back on the watering and try and increase the ventilation. It's a fine balance at this time of the year.

[SarzWix]

I planted my BBs in the tunnel too, but they're HSL ones and I'd like to save seeds from them, so hoping they'll be a bit easier to isolate once they start flowering in there