What I did today 2012-2014

[marcofez]

Finished off spreading manure over the rest of the bed I started yesterday
Put the remainder of manure in daleks to mature!!!!

[Plot28 A&B]

Green House

I've been given a greenhouse so today I went and dismantled it, tomorrow I will jet wash it and Saturday will rebuild it on my allotment.

[TrialAndError]

Beginning of a new way of life!

[Feral007]

Inspected the seedlings I put out last week not doing too well. Weather is crap. A few hot days, but still some very cold mornings.

Only thiing doing fantastic is the d@mn grass! So will dwell on how to manage the plants whilst I mow and mow and mow somemore.

[Florence Fennel]

At last I found the energy to empty out the tomato buckets on to a spare bed which is looking good. Raked and swept up a bag of leaves and tidied up some summer flowering tubs. Had to stop, ran out of steam!

[elleme]

I went to a community fruit/veg garden in the local park to see if anything needed doing. Not a lot, but I dug out some deadnettle and creeping buttercup from the beds, checked how a green manure I had planted earlier was doing (fine) and cleared some fallen leaves from where the broad beans had recently germinated.

[BertieFox]

Today we harvested our first ever Kiwi fruit (32 in all). Some are even ripe enough to eat and taste delicious! The main fruiting (female) vine was grown from a seed from a supermarket fruit, around ten years ago, and we had to hand pollinate the flowers in spring as the male plant we only bought last year had just three flowers. I pollinated with a little brush for three days running as each flower only lasts a day. Now the question is whether the immature male plant will produce any flowers at all next spring! Still, it is very gratifying to get our own fruit having tried for so long.

[ancee]

Picked up a million leaves. Then picked them up again - the puppy got into the trug Made 4 jars of jam. Bought seeds and seeds and seeds

[Bigmallly]

Sorted out my wardrobe, bagged up a load of dress shirts, a black dinner suit plus a white dinner jacket & gave them to a mate from work.......oh, mustn't forget also a box of cufflinks......can't see me doing any more cruises after retirement.........

[veggiechicken]

^^^^ makes me think of the Good Life!! Didn't Tom wear his dinner jacket in the garden?
I've cut back the grapevine in the GH, bit too early as it was bleeding
Cleared out some tomato plants and ripped up the courgettes.
Had a wander and a ponder
Drank coffee in the warmth of the GH
Eaten a couple of apples, still lots on the tree - bright red, look like holly berries.
Assembled a bed apart from one pesky stubborn fitting which will have to wait until tomorrow.

[The Cobra]

Spent a couple of hours clearing the lottie, got plenty of dead wood, grass and nettle stalks into a big pile for a nice fire. Also put a lock on the allotment door, it's nice and secure now

[stella]

Cleaned, swept and tidied up the shed, looks really nice now

[Bill HH]

Spent the morning trying to make a veggy oil burner for the green house, So far I have spoilt a perfectly good shirt with oil, coughing from black smoke, and I have ruined my wifes mop (for wicks) a bread tin (to hold the burner) and various pots will never be the same again.
It boils down to the fact that cooking oil will not rise any distance up a wick, that leaves me with floating a wick on a cork or having a shallow bowl with a wick lying on its side, both work but are ruled out on safety grounds. back to the drawing board (thats covered in oil too).

[The Cobra]

Spent the morning trying to make a veggy oil burner for the green house, So far I have spoilt a perfectly good shirt with oil, coughing from black smoke, and I have ruined my wifes mop (for wicks) a bread tin (to hold the burner) and various pots will never be the same again.
It boils down to the fact that cooking oil will not rise any distance up a wick, that leaves me with floating a wick on a cork or having a shallow bowl with a wick lying on its side, both work but are ruled out on safety grounds. back to the drawing board (thats covered in oil too).

ha ha class mate!!!

[Methe]

Finished clearing my plot and covered 2/3 of it. Dug up some stupidly placed fruit trees which were planted by the previous tenant.. no-one wanted them so they've gone in the bin which is a shame. Squashed about 4million slug eggs.

Then I had a practice run for Christmas Day pudding.. profiteroles with lemon creme patissiere and dark chocolate drizzle. Yum!