What I did today 2012-2014

[Thelma Sanders]

bought my copy of gyo mag - look at all those seeds! received gherkin seeds from vvg- thanks!
Anyone got kitten proof propogation systems in their houses?

All my seed trays have lids which I fix on with gaffer tape - the cat might sit on top of the lids but she can't sit in the seeds!
Root !T Propagator Lid | eBay

The things I do for cats

[rabbit]

First post on the forum..

Today with the help of some family dug an built 4x raised beds for vegetables!! So excited, now trying to plan what to seeds to buy and plant...

[Hole Digger]

Sowed large onion seed [hopefully] today in seed compost topped with vermiculite,put into propagator at about 60 degrees

[binley100]

Kitchen duty in lottie kitchen ...moved a couple of barrowloads of llama poop .....emptied and moved a dalek to make room for poop........weeded the asparagus bed......fetched out the padron chillies from the airing cupboard to be moved to kitchen windowsill.....made marmalade

[Piggle]

started to build some new supports for my raspberries - properly this time as well rather than the hash job I've been doing for the past 4 years.

stood back in satisfaction as I saw my rhubarb peeking through and then scratched my head as I couldn't remember whether you cut down autumn raspeberries right back - what a rookie.

[VirginVegGrower]

started to build some new supports for my raspberries - properly this time as well rather than the hash job I've been doing for the past 4 years.

stood back in satisfaction as I saw my rhubarb peeking through and then scratched my head as I couldn't remember whether you cut down autumn raspeberries right back - what a rookie.

You do! Cut them back that is.

[Piggle]

thought so but I bottled it as I wasn't sure .......stoopid me even has an app on my phone which tells me but of course I didn't use it.

[hawthorns]

washed greenhouse inside and out. edged raspberry bed. sorted bamboo canes out.

[veg man]

Finnished of greenhouse cleaned plant pots ready for march or a bit earlier have to watch the weather

[hamesy]

Pretty productive day at the allotment. I finished manuring the potato beds and topped up a couple of the others. My dad started work on the perimeter fence around the plot, which we should be able to finish off next weekend. Once thats done, all my winter projects are complete and its just a case of keeping on top of the weeds until spring

[PyreneesPlot]

Sorted out my seeds - an envelope full of new packets has been sat on my desk unloved for a month - and input the info into a sowing schedule spreadsheet.

Moved some jiffy growblocks into a warm room ready for sowing chillies later this week.

[legume]

Very productive day on the lottie, with lots of healthful toil. Now have that lovely 'virtuous' feeling.

I....

1) harvested and dug up the last of the winter brassicas, cleared out all the perennial weeds that I didn't get rid of last year before planting the brassicas (shan't be making that mistake again) and manured the bed ready for planting potatoes;

2) sank the miniature Pinus tree I bought in December for a kitchen 'christmas tree' into a large tub of compost (so it can be simply lifted out to use again next Christmas);

3) started a new compost heap with all the brassica clearings and apple tree prunings (in fact also moved the two compost heaps to a better location);

4) marked out the location of three new beds I am creating this year (one allotment just ain't enough), ready to start lifting off the turf and digging them. Didn't actually start digging though: there's healthful toil and then there's just ... jobs I don't want to do and can be given to husband instead;

5) fed the birds;

6) cleared away the heaps of rubbish left from creating the allotment last year, like bits of old carpet and plastic sheeting, metal posts, mounds of perennial weeds, bricks and general crap (we just threw it in a massive heap against the wall next to the shed, I am ashamed to say!)

7) debated growing 'something' in the nearly cleared space next to the shed (show me a bit of land and I will regard it thoughtfully for a while and then say, 'you know, we could grow....... here'. Including land that is not, in fact, mine - a habit which is probably going to get me in trouble one of these days). Then got real when I realied how much work I already have to do on the plot this year. Put down weed-suppressing membrane instead.

8) tidied up the shed.

9) drank copious quantities of tea.

[VirginVegGrower]

Mr VVG sank in two concrete fence posts for a fence panel across where we will have a new raised bed at home. It's a chook stopper! I sowed sweet pea Cupani and calabrese, green and quick heading varieties. Checked out seedlings in greenhouse. Chook watched!

[Peppermint]

Husband cemented second gate post in. He now has the gate to make.

I worked on tidying the potting shed, throwing out broken trays and pots and then washed all the pots. Still have the trays to wash and it is all looking a lot better. We had rain here this afternoon so it was the perfect job to do on a wet day. I probably should have worked on manuring some of the beds this morning though

[hamamelis]

Went down the 'lottie to empty the kitchen scraps into the compost.

Got there, and realised the kitchen scraps were still, in fact, in the kitchen- over a mile away

Decided I might as well do something useful seeing as I was there and it wasn't actually raining, so planted out the yellow raspberries that have been looking accusingly at me from a pot for the last month, gave the pot-bound rosemary I just bought a nice new home, mulched round the currants, made a start on the new blueberry bed (digging up a scary number of little white balls in the process) and stared thoughtfully at things for a bit.

Something appears to still be eating my bean sprouts despite the netting; should I suspect the compost rat or the slugs? Or both, come to think of it; rats don't nibble leaf tips much and slugs, for all their sins, rarely uproot plants.