What I Did Today (Undercover)

[Darwin.]

I was going to suggest a ferret but if you don't want to kill it that's a bad idea. I'd just fill it in with stones and hope for the best, once the rabbit gets the scent of someone in there it should probably avoid it anyway.


I don't think I'll be planting rice, I'm doing my drainage Monday and I'm going to drive the digger up to the door of the tunnel, reach inside with it and dig a drain down the middle of the bottom half of it. I'll have drains either side of it on the outside too so that should dry it out.

[wizzbang]

Those who read my posts will know that the garden I am moving to has been neglected.
Today I went into the poly tunnel and although there is nothing growing in there apart from one single nettle which will be expelled next weekend. There is, however, a rabbit hole! Pesky Wabbit!!
Ill have to block the hole off and see if another one appears.
What shall I do if it comes back? Don't say kill it please, because I just couldn't do that.
Lynne x

[VirginVegGrower]

I got wood today and started putting edging in the tunnel, was advised to do it instead of one down the middle.

I was digging down about 3 inches to set it and the little trench filled with water, that's how bloody wet my tunnel is. If I planted anything in it now it'd drown.

Rice? Watercress?

[Darwin.]

I got wood today and started putting edging in the tunnel, was advised to do it instead of one down the middle.

I was digging down about 3 inches to set it and the little trench filled with water, that's how bloody wet my tunnel is. If I planted anything in it now it'd drown.

[Darwin.]

Nothing physical but I spent the day wondering what to do about raised beds in the tunnel. I'm thinking of building one big bed down the middle, about 5ft x 22ft and 3 ft high then concrete walkways around the outsides of it to the edges of the tunnel.

[Thelma Sanders]

Potted up my early toms, some peppers and some chillis - all still on the windowcills

[Thelma Sanders]

Potted up some chitted Lady Christl spuds, 3 littlies to a large tub.

[VirginVegGrower]

Sowed salad too. Into modules in the greenhouse. Also sprouts and kale. Aired the poly. It's getting quite wet inside. Greenhouse too. Pricked out celery and potted on.

[Thelma Sanders]

Sowed the first salads - lettuce rocket and a mix

[Potstubsdustbins]

I have made my start today, 16 containers of 1st earlies, and sown some garlic chives from seed saved last year.

Just holding back a little due to the weather forecast.

Potty

[SarzWix]

Nightmare Mal! Perhaps keeping the plants pruned might force them to flower/fruit? I tried them one year climbing up some netting in the greenhouse and didn't get any fruit either, but wasn't fussed enough to try again.

[maljackson]

I'm going to try melons this year in the GH. Can anyone recommend a good variety for our lovely northern climate?

I bought some grafted melon plants for my polytunnel last year. Alas, I had no idea just how BIG these damn things grow, and ended up with carnage on a plantastic scale.

If I was to do melons again, I would make some sort of structure for them to go up and over the inside of the tunnel. Or, even better, work out how minimal in size I can keep them.

Mal.

P.S. I didn't get a single melon.

[SarzWix]

I've just planted out a dozen broad bean plants (Seville from HSL) a dozen Oskar and a dozen Celebration pea plants. The over-wintered onions are looking good, and the calabrese and cabbages are looking a bit more jaunty too

[Lisamcflisa]

Today, I totally cleaned the inside of my greenhouse, removed my rabbit and guinea pig who have been taking advantage of a warm place through the winter, I've dug out all my modules, trays and little pots and adjusted my staging so this week I can get planting... cant wait, love this next few months outside is the job over next few days, make sure the glass is gleaming

[Darwin.]

For the first time in about three years I purposely missed a Newcastle United game. I did it so I could go out and weed another bay and a half in the tunnel and measure up for wooden edging. Thankfully I have enough wood in the pallets I have to do it.