What I did today 2012-2014

[Hazel at the Hill]

Dug up more brambles, cut back hazel (Sorry Hazel and continued to clear some ground that will be a permaculture/forest garden. Planted 3 blackcurrant bushes.
Robin sang to me all day

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[StaryD]

Now, what did I do today.
Learnt a thing or two, ran down the allotment to sow some money maker toms, scotch bonnet chillies and some bell pepper. Ran back home and found out my heated propagator and put them into it. Hopefully now my toms will come through.

Really can't wait till the allotment dries out so I can get the lawn mower out, it looks so untidy with all the long grass.

[BarleySugar]

Planted out broad beans (crimson flowered, Jubilee Hysor and Martock). All had been planted in toilet roll inners, and were only just breaking the surface. The idea being they haven't had time to produce lush growth in the cold greenhouse, so more likely to grow away in the colder conditions. I used a bulb planter to make the holes as the bed had been covered in cardboard and composted material to suppress the weeds.
I also planted some beetroot direct in the ground, bolthardy and risked some yellow burpee as well. Radishes sowed at the edges of the beds. I also planted out my red florence onion seedlings. They've been hardened off so I'm hoping they will establish ok.
I tried out the weed wand, though in some places the ground was so wet I think they would more likely boil than burn. Time will see how effective it was. I'm hoping it will have done in the buttercups that have occupied the asparagus bed! I concentrated the flame on the growing centre. Too wet to try to dig them out, but I wanted to take action before the asparagus starts to shoot. I also strimmed the grass paths, but then was too cold to do much else.

[eirish]

Sowed my first seeds of the year, four kinds of chillies: jalapeno, Joe E Parker, Hot Lemon Drop, and Twilight. All nice and toasty in the heated propagator.

[binley100]

Had to move some toms up the gh so made them a (hopefully) toasty home........pricked out more aubs and chillies ......and some Pride of Madeira flowers.

[sammy_roser]

Built and painted a mini asparagus bed. Now just need to decide which variety to grow and how many crowns I can fit in the space.

[Feral007]

Put the Ex Battie's out into the big wide world, put one back into her run. Poor girl, there's pecking order, and there's bullying! Went out to lunch where I used to work near the mountains, and got a lovely surprise of a huge bunch of flowers and a chook candle and a plate and coffee cup.
And a lot of recipes for the things everyone brought to eat

Had a walk round the garden and the Fruit (without nut yet) forest with the two boys. First raspberries up.
Had a birthday dinner with the boys, sent one boy home with sweet corn.

Today.......Started sunny, now cloudy and VERY windy.

[Noosner]

Sowed a row of spring onions (Ishikura) in the garden next to the cold frame. Ate some Reine de Glace and Grandpa Admire lettuce out of the cold frame for breakfast with hummus and oatcakes. The lettuces have been growing slowly there all winter and have just started to put a spurt on. Webbs Wonders sown in a bit of guttering in the bathroom have gone leggy but transferred them to a high shelf in the shed (it has a corrugated plastic roof so acts a bit like a cold frame) to see what happens. Probably not a lot!

[Paulieb]

Late last night sowed what will hopefully be my final batch of toms for this year. They're in the propagator so hopefully they'll be up and maybe ready to prick out over Easter weekend.

[Feral007]

Sowed snow peas everywhere.
Turnips, leeks.
Ordered more seeds Alpine strawberries, chinese greens, a japanese green, cauliflower, kale, and possibly some other things. 40 assorted garlic. \
Then ordered quite a lot of green manure seed for cold season areas.
And then I bought some broccoli seedlings because I felt like it

And now, best of all................it's pouring wet stuff out there! Had a terrible wind this evening, and a temperature drop, but not a drop of the wet stuff. Till about an hour ago. I'm happy now. All plants needing a really big water, and they are getting one. I can go to sleep happy now.

[traceys plot]

planted cucamelon, black russian and various saved seed some in GH some on the radiater

[Two_Sheds]

- started digging out couch grass & horsetail from the school beds
- planted out a tray of cerinthe that overwintered in the gh
- removed grasses & lavenders from my front garden to go up the school. Planted them in the driest beds
- sowed lots of hardy annuals for the school, in the gh
- met a Master Gardener and a Master Composter, had a chat and a look round
- potted on the indoor pelargoniums, fuchsias & tomatoes which are growing fast now with the extra daylight

[Feral007]

Watered the lettuce seedlings..........

[StaryD]

Went and brought 2 grape vines, a Kiwi "jenny", cranberry and some summer flowering bulbs.
Apart from that, nothing much.

[Feral007]

Resorted my chooks. Son and I got out the labelmaker I bought about a year ago, and finally got it hooked up to the computer and working.
Took a few photos. Swapped some veg with a couple of people.
Scored an old table for the fruit forest, and a mill wheel.