What I did today 2012-2014

[veggiechicken]

Potted on a couple of dozen weird and wonderful squashes and some Kyoto Market bunching onions.
Heavy rain this morning, sunny but a cold wind this afternoon. Can anyone confirm this is May ?

[Snadger]

Checked on calabrese planted yesterday. Looked a bit bedraggled and flat so gave them a good soaking with water.
Spent an other hour digging up flowering dandelions and feeding them to chooks.
Finally realised how acid my soil actually is as I have rushes and reeds growing as weeds on the plot. Hopefully the lime I am adding at brassica planting time will sweeten the land and raise the pH slightly.
Started weeding the bed that I am going to renew the boards on which are rotten. I have worked out I have enough pantiles left to do this. They are pink pantiles (not panties)

[VirginVegGrower]

checked on calabrese planted yesterday. Looked a bit bedraggled and flat so gave them a good soaking with water.
spent an other hour digging up flowering dandelions and feeding them to chooks.
Finally realised how acid my soil actually is as i have rushes and reeds growing as weeds on the plot. Hopefully the lime i am adding at brassica planting time will sweeten the land and raise the ph slightly.
Started weeding the bed that i am going to renew the boards on which are rotten. I have worked out i have enough pantiles left to do this. They are pink pantiles (not panties):d

I think I may need glasses

[Florence Fennel]

I think I may need glasses

I'll join you, they're BOGOF at you-know-where

Fed the tomatoes with some comfrey tea and then rushed back inside, it's bloomin' cold out there.

[Two_Sheds]

- continued planting out the hardened off French beans, also peas, kale, cabbage
- watered the new sowings & seedlings, it still hasn't rained much (it's now 55+ days without good rain)
- covered the weedkillered border with newspapers and 4" of semi-rotted leafmould
- started adding dandelions (dug out of lawn) as well as grass clippings to my sacks of leafmould
- continued cutting & chopping alfalfa and seaweed, dropped it all on soil as a mulch
- dug dozens of raspberry suckers out of the path and the 'wrong' beds. They've gone mad
- put out a basket of pelargoniums. So easy from cuttings, and surprisingly tough, they survived winter in the unheated greenhouse

[Likac66]

Popped to the plot to earth over potatoes as temp is set to drop tonight. Pulled out two tiny radishes. Something is nibbling on my radishes, but they are just making little holes in the leaves, not munching the edges of them. No idea what it is.

Plastic coldframe blown over and broken so I have covered the courgette plant in a triple layer of fleece.

Also fleeced over Little Tommy the Tomato Plant in my polytunnel.

At home, fleeced over the potatoes in the bags outside. Fleeced over all sensitive stuff in greenhouse. Smiled at the fact that cucumbers and squashes are actually germinating in heated propagator.

[Martin H]

Something is nibbling on my radishes, but they are just making little holes in the leaves, not munching the edges of them. No idea what it is.

Flea beetles I expect.

[kentishgal]

Popped to Wilkinsons for gardening supplies (including a goji berry plant that Im pretty sure I dont need!).
Spent a few hours potting on (tomatos, cucumbers, melon, sweet pea, beans, chervil, and about 3 million snapdragon seedlings). First year with a greenhouse and couldnt get over the novelty of being able to do this in the rain and not get wet!!LOL

[StephenH]

Went to the lotty, gave everything inside the polytunnel a good soaking with the hose, and planted my 'Golden Acre' Autumn cabbage seedlings. I was originally going to grow 'Rouge Tete Noir' autumn cabbages, but all the seedlings died off, for no obvious reason, at the two-true-leaves stage, so I had to start again with seeds from Wilkos.
May go to the lotty again later, and weed and fork over the small area in front of the polytunnel, on either side of the front door (or rather hole where a door should be), and sow nasturtiums and calendulas.
My spuds, in the back garden, are finally appearing above ground. I planted the chitted seed spuds just before the dreadful weather in March started, and I though it might have done for them, but they're just late, like most things this year.

[rustylady]

Went to the lottie this morning, did some weeding and some more digging.

Started to rain, so I came home and now the sun's shining again.

[Barking Postlethwaite]

Braved the wind and the wet to put fleece over the courgettes as the temperature is forecast to get close to frosting for the next two nights. They were getting a bit battered by the wind too, so I was already thinking I might give them some protection even before I saw the forecast had changed.

I put some of the runner and climbing beans out last week on the basis I have enough spares to replace them if things go wrong. They're in a more sheltered part of the plot and have been well hardened off so I'm hoping they'll be ok.

[Noosner]

Heeded: the weather forecast but decided to ignore it
Weeded: around the lottie beetroot
Seeded: planted runner beans and swede
Feeded: my 2 Cucino cucs in their big pots on the sills, already fruiting
Needed: after all that, a big mug of tea and a snooze!

[Likac66]

Sowed 8 cucamelon seeds on kitchen windowsill.

[binley100]

Attempted to rearrange the gh ....with help (!!!) from Jake ........gave up cos there's just way too much in there at the moment......moved into the conservatory and potted on some cucs , sowed some seeds and put some beans in tub to chit......

[hamamelis]

Nipped down the lottie while it wasn't actually raining- strimmed the grass, admired the growing things (after only having a few parsnips germinate last year, I chucked way more seeds in this time, and it seems all of 'em came up. Typical ) did a spot of weeding, and cobbled together a net for the red currant.

I reckon I'll need to net the black and white ones as well- the birds got the lot last year. Wish I had a proper fruit cage.