What I did today 2012-2014

[veggiechicken]

Changed the layout in the greenhouse - managed to box myself into a corner while the hail hammered on the glass
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1107000

[Aberdeenplotter]

potted on my tasco 250 gmm onions.

[Noosner]

Mine too and my sweet peas - when did you sow yours?

Think it was about ten days ago, Sheneval. The 'Bandits' which are on a North facing windowsill haven't come through yet though. How long did yours take to come up?

[Feral007]

I mowed and mowed and mowed yesterday. Today I'm just going to mow and mow. I hope to be finished with the mowing (and also the mowing) by thursday

Seedlings planted out on the weekend are looking good, and the blueberry plant also.

Need to get some seeds in now for the autumn and overwintering. If I can just get the mowing out of the way first. Would hate to trip over a snake this late in the year.

[Noosner]

Mr Noosner and I spent the whole afternoon trying to put up our new self-assembly lean-to greenhouse. By the end, we had still only managed to put the back wall together in our sitting room and unfortunately we are going to have to take the whole thing apart next time and try again because the plastic panels stand proud of the frame at the top...

[sammy_roser]

Sowed sweet basil and Siam Queen basil on my kitchen window sill.
Checked on plants in greenhouse, the sweetpeas are taking a long time to germinate but a quick check on one of the seeds and there is a sign of life. Still nothing from the broad beans though 10 days later.

[marcofez]

What a lovely sunny day down the lottie!!........but the soil is soaking !!! In an attempt to get started I've covered my carrot & parsnip bed with polythene sheeting. Hoping this will help it dry out a touch. I will then prepare the bed ready for sowing!
I've swapped some of my seeds for some pepper seeds I fancied growing, sowed them today!
Peter (naughty word) pepper seed, Chocolate beauty sweet pepper, Ciliegia piccante sweet chilli pepper, Red and golden chilli pepeers, californian wonder, corno rosso sweet pepper and banana sweet pepper.
Also sowed a pinch of different lettuce and salad leaves and some Basil.

[sally fran]

Took the cardboard off what will be the tomato bed this year and cut lots of slugs in half with my specially designated Slug Scissors. Then sowed phacelia in it - should be ready for the toms by mid-May.

Harvested the last of the celeriac and weeded that bed. Started repairs to it - tatties will be going in there when it's ready.

Harvested some kale for tonight's tea.

[Martin H]

Set out some Wilja potatoes to chit, bought some runner bean and sweet corn seeds for next month, sowed Virginia Gold tobacco and Gazania saved seed in trays on the kitchen windowsill.

Going to look at a vacant lottie later this week, might be about to start a lot of work!

[Noosner]

Down at lottie this afto, the broad beans were up! (in their little poly-tunnel) and so was the garlic. Sowed beetroot (Alto and Boltardy), planted a Howgate Wonder apple tree and shoved some cardboard down the side of the compost heap to keep it snug.

Also went round shoring up our fence because Mr Rabbit had got in again, eaten all the leaves and stalks off my 3 rhubarb plants and left his calling card to prove whodunnit. The nerve. And I thought rabbits didn't like rhubarb...

[Likac66]

Ordered an external padlock for the storage box I bought on Sunday to go down the allotment. Not sure how secure it will be, but hopefully it will put off any opportunists. If anyone is hell bent on stealing stuff I don't think it would matter if it's a plastic box or a shed. I do hope to get a shed later this year but that won't be for a long time.

[Feral007]

Did some more mowing. Yard looking pretty good. Gave the new seedlings a good cuppa tea (comfrey this time) watered flowers in raised barrels and seedlings, and chia plants.
Got horses hooves done. Picked half the corn.

[sally fran]

Finished repairs and improvements to another raised bed. Just managed to get it finished before the rain came. Before that it was lovely - the sun really had some strength to it.

Potted on some early sown tomatoes which had gone a bit floppy and moved them to a cooler room, since rustylady advised that they had had too much warmth and not enough light.

Harvested a cabbage for tonight's tea.

[VirginVegGrower]

Watered in the poly and greenhouse. Mr VVG made me another hanging shelf for the poly and I planted some Broadies out - yeay

[veggiechicken]

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