What I did today - 2019

[chillithyme]

Almost completed digging over and raking over two very long beds
Levelled out one of the beds with compost from over a year old heap of turf
Hand cut grass
Dug up and replanted rhubarb and raspberry plants

[Small pumpkin]

Lots of pricking out.
Little bit of seed sowing.
Lots of planning.
Some spring cleaning.
Dog toy throwing & tug of war ( I lost )

[1Bee]

Dug over the onion bed (apart from the space occupied by two nearly-finished PSB) and planted out sturon sets. Realised I didn't have as much as I thought I had, and put sturon sets on the shopping list. Covered bed with fleece.

Moved some more muck from the big stinking pile to the smaller, neater, stinking pile in the compost bays.

Helped the boys with their project of digging up some buried chicken wire. Helped the boys with their supplemental project of sword fighting with old sunflower stalks. If you ONLY grow sunflowers for this, you will not be disappointed.

Sowed some radishes.

Re-sowed sungold and black russian tomatoes, after Rosie-kitty developed a taste for them.

Filled the rest of the new raised beds and covered with black plastic.

Used twine to mark out the two new narrower beds I'm going to make out of the scrap heap mega-bed.

Picked PSB and rocket - it overwintered and appears to be frost hardy, who knew?

Next jobs - digging the the scrap heap mega-bed. Mulching raspberries.

[Lumpy]

Swing bin liner full of compost now indoors by a radiator to warm up for a Tom seed planting session.
Doing the Okey Cokey with various pots in and out of the shed so the plants get a bit of sun including my six MFBs with happy little Charlottesville in.
Weeded the gravel - pigging bird seed.
Seed sorted out for the next seeding phase.

[muck lover]

Today I added more chopped up old flower stems and kitchen scraps to my rotating composter. I reckon I can still do this because it isn’t heating up yet so the more I can get in the better.I’ve got a little bit obsessed with gathering material for this composter because once it starts to heat up I can’t add any more.

Actually I have my eye on the bunch of flowers one of the young Muck Lovers managed to present on Mother’s Day. Of course I have to wait until the things wilt first but if I just move the vase a little closer to the radiator...

[sarah9786]

Lol �� and I was thinking the same thing slightly guiltily. Carefully quickening the end of the flowers so the compost can benefit doesn't mean you're any less grateful to get some flowers! I say bring on the wilt!

The hail here today was very heavy and dramatic. It lasted for ages on the ground and in all my outdoor pots and trays. �� I'm hoping the pea shoots are tough enough but we'll see. Very relieved to see the lupins I'd planted just a few days ago were unscathed

[1Bee]

Dawn session on the plot. C-c-c-c-c-cold.....

I'd found some sturon sets in Aldi, so peeled back the fleece, planted them out, and re-covered. That's all the yellow onions in, I have some heat-treated red onions to go in, but they're more tender and need to go out later on. After that, we'll start the annual, "omg, where are the leeks going to go?!?"

Maybe I need another dumpy bag...

Cut in the edges of the rest of bed 1, mostly just to warm up. The top third already has peas and broad beans in and has been done.

Next: mega-bed and raspberries. But I'm not looking forward to those bits, and I think I'm procrastinating, so will probably find something else that needs doing "urgently"...

[Dynamo]

I've been collecting green gold.

The field outside my house had its first haircut a couple of days ago so I've been collecting the clippings. I've filled over 3 compost bins so far. I might get summore tomorrow.

[bario1]

A quick visit to the plot at lunch today.
Sowed a row of spinach and a row of beetroot under mini-cloches.
Raked over the keyhole bed that was last year's flower patch - phacelia is coming up everywhere - this bed has my pea 'netting' (vertical metal grilles) in. Dug a trench along the base of the netting and filled with compost from the heap. The idea in this bed is to grow a variety of stuff all together - so squashes and flowers at the front to look nice, peas up the netting, and behind the netting some tall sunflowers, and behind them some spuds which might enjoy a bit of protection from the sun (if we get another hot summer ) Might work - we'll see!
Finally, had a 5 minute bash at levelling the new lawn area with a pickaxe.
Then back to work.

[Small pumpkin]

Potted on the last of the chillies.
Started the tray juggling in the tunnel. Running out of space already! Wonder if that's anything to do with the 70+ extra chillies I have in their .

[Greenleaves]

I came, I saw, I cried!

Been mulling over a way to tackle the bad lands plot

[happyhumph]

Work, then looking after friends children as well as my own so no chance to get in the garden. Instead, I have spent a pleasant evening re potting house plants.

[the big lebowski]

i went up the plot today and strimmed all the grass ,2 trug fulls of grass clippings in the compost , also weeded around my onions and sowed 2 rows of peas and covered them with chicken wire to keep the birds off , fingers crossed they survive this year

[SarrissUK]

Went to buy a spade, and some plant supports, then off to Morrisons to see what they have in and picked up two honeysuckles for the plot - they'd look lovely at the back, and another raspberry (cause I need more rasps haha... not). Then I went to get some more horse manure, despite having a raspy throat, but I figured if that's the only physical thing I do today, I can manage. I got quite a few big bags of old horse manure, but, since whoever is mucking out the horses insist on dumping the new stuff on top of the old, I got quite a few bags of fresh stuff too. That'll do me well for next year - I'm building up quite the stash!

[Small pumpkin]

Mowed & strimed for the first time this year.