What I did today 2012-2014

[chefgage]

been outside all day put a layer of compost on the two raised beds, then put some new netting over the top to keep the cats out!! weeded around the gooseberry, blueberry and logan berry bushes and put some fertilizer around them.

last year the logan berry canes were growing along our fence, this year i have got some plastic covered metal tube canes (if that makes sense) these have now been drilled and connected together to make two 2m tripods for the canes to grow up. did not quite get round to putting them out there, but thats a job for next weekend

[ladylottie]

Hooray - managed to get 3 hours digging in this afternoon at the lottie Have now done at least 3/4 of the plot. Only (?) have two grass paths to dig out now. Oh yes and I still have to dig over my new 1/3rd plot
Still I'm really pleased with how much I've managed to do now that we've had a couple of days of gorgeous sunshine. Hopefully I can do another couple of hours tomorrow afternoon.

[rustylady]

Actually managed to get to the allotment Albeit with one daughter and two grandchildren. The PSB seems to have survived the flying rat attack of a week ago and is looking good. Overwintering onions are looking good too. Dug some more leeks and turned the space over ready for the broad beans.

[pigletwillie]

Lots of seed sowing in the heated greenhouse plus lots of titivating in the garden.

[VirginVegGrower]

Weeded, fed and mulched the brassica bed. Bark chipped some more. All beds now weeded, fed and mulched...now breathe!

[adamhartree]

Dug some more of the new plot, 5 wheelbarrows full of couch roots. Put down woodchip on the allotment patio area.Now home to cook soy chicken and sow some more.

[binley100]

Fired up the beast and strimmed eldest's front garden .....found what was the lawn and dug the borders ....(not been touched for about 2 years) . Now to get some plants ........ May need groundforce to help with the back garden .....

[Florence Fennel]

Made a start woohoo. Sowed chillies, tomatoes and French Marigolds.

[di]

Covered a large bed with cardboard and emptied half my cough compost onto it. (thought it was going to be a quick job). Cleared lots of dead grass and popped it around my raspberries...making sure there were no seed heads. Laid some slabs and tarp and logs along the outer edge of the fruit cage, in the hope it will make for an easier dig and become a cut flower and herb bed. DS and DD raked their beds and then DD 'dug' another one whilst DS raked my soon to be spinach experimental patch. Covered my early carrot sowing with some bubble wrap....came home.

[Kaiya]

I ate a lot of chocolate to recover.

Before eating a lot of chocolate, I pegged out my new bed plan (my potato bed now looks too small) and moved the dalek from the south corner (silly place to put it) to the north. A house mouse was living in the dalek. I didn't find any babies, so hopefully it'll find somewhere more suitable to nest now.

I also trimmed the damaged broad beans and discovered that although some were frost damaged down to the ground, I have new growth peeping out for all bar a couple. I moved some sulking year old garlic to a better bed, two gooseberry bushes and three raspberry, stuck two gooseberry prunings in the ground to see if they take, and moved the asparagus crown. When moving the crown, I found a second crown that hadn't grown last year but also hadn't rotted. They now have a lush trench with the little pile to sit on and everything.

Oh and I took down the tomato poles from last year and moved some weed membrane about.

[Loudbarker1]

Planted the spring sowing of broad beans yesterday a balmly Feburary day. ABout 36 plants in loo rolsl and compost in (uncoverd) cold frame. Trying Witkiem Manita this year ("outstanding variety, probably the earliest spring sown variety. High yields of top quality beans" says the Edwin Tucker website) since last year the cook complained about imperial green long pod which I thought were delicious).

36 would be more than I would usually plant, but about 30% of my aquadulce claudia have been killed off by the frost despite being under fleece - in fact they have survived just as well where there were holes in the fleece.

Looked at watering the soft fruit in pots, but decided not yet necessary.

Also cut down about half of an overgrown vine that shades two of my beds. About time - should ahev done during the winter, but didn't get round to it. (Code for - was too lazy and soft in the winter to do it.)

Inspected chitting potatos. They are coming on nicely. Need to put black plastic over place for them to go to warm up soil. Currently occupied by turnips ( purple topped milan done well over the winter and still harvesting) failed winter salads (aka weeds) and perpetual spinage.

Harvested leeks (msselbrough) for soup. They haven't done all that well this year - aforementioned vine shading did not help at all, but have done diet soups (with carrots, some home grown and soem not) since December.

But glorious to get out to garden at last with Master and Miss Loudbarker helping.

[Jamesy_uk]

Lovely weekend.

Treated the fence panels in the back garden then mowed the lawn, tidied and swept up, took 4 trip loads of rubbish from the garage up the tip and breathe........ put up my blowaway from wilkinsons 90cm wide by 160 tall and then filled the bottom shelf with bricks so it didn't indeed fly away. Planted 3 more rows of broad beans (bunyards exhibition) to go with my aquadulce at my parents house and then proceeded to dig up lots of self seeded plants and bulbs to clear a nice 3m by 1.5m section (only another 12 x 1.5m to go...)
Then proceeded to sow Boltardy and Cylindra beetroot and early nantes carrots in seed tray along with some cavolo nero kale and musselburgh leeks. Tended to my sungold tomatoes, california wonder peppers, cheyenne chillies and alicante tomatoes ll of which are just breaking the surface.

Amazing how much energy to get things done the sun gives you.

[Bren In Pots]

Today I've sown musselburgh and blue solaise leeks in one of those pond baskets it worked out well last year then Kale and perpetual spinach in paper pots.

[hollychap]

with the days growing longer i managed to get to the allotment on my way home from work and did half an hours digging will do this everyday this week every little helps

[Snadger]

Pruned my cordon apple trees. Pruned my redcurrants and whitecurrants. Intend doing gooseberries tomorrow evening after work.
Dug up one redcurrant and one whitecurrant that I'd grown from cuttings for to give to a work compatriot.