What I did today 2012-2014

[Martin H]

Planted out brussels sprouts and 2 kinds of cauliflower under a debris net.

Sowed lettuces and carrots under fleece.

[Currysniffa]

Got three beds ready on the new plot today Going to do the long thin bed tomorrow.

[Bill HH]

Built a new raised bed and filled it. Its extra deep for carrots. Filled it with cardboard, news papers, half composted leaves, compost and top soil mixed. The uprights are for enviromesh.

[Noosner]

Potted and pricked out for England yesterday. It felt like a task in a fairy tale - one of those magic ones that you can never finish. But I'm happy to report that my legions of squash plants, pepper plants and tomato plants are now soaking up any sun on the windowsills and the PSB, cabbage, lettuce and chard seedlings are either in final position or potted up waiting for their trip to lottie.

[RaptorUK]

Assembled my first Brassica cage and planted out 2 x 4m rows of Shallot Zebrune that I have grown from seed. Another first for me, never brown bulbing onions before, only Spring Onions, just hope they have enough time and the soil is good enough.

[Bex]

I've sown 2 more Morrison buckets of spring onion and one of carrot. Planted the 2 asparagus crowns I bought for a pound yesterday after soaking then in water overnight.
Also planted about 25 gladioli, give the rest to my mum. Planted the 50 red onion sets that I got yesterday.
I fed the plum tree that apparently hasn't fruited too well in the past. Also fed the mystery fruit bushes that I inherited with the allotment. I'll try and post some pics tomorrow and see if you lovely peeps can identify them.
Then I dug up mares tail from my nursery bed. My mum did loads of weeding for me too bless her!
I sowed herbs in the planter that my son got from the charity shop he volunteers at. That's it for today. Now sitting with glass of wine while a curry bubbles on the stove.



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[Bren In Pots]

Potted on the toms then sown some cucumber and courgettes.

[Bigmallly]

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Built a new raised bed and filled it. Its extra deep for carrots. Filled it with cardboard, news papers, half composted leaves, compost and top soil mixed. The uprights are for enviromesh.

Good job there Mom...........

[MrsCordial]

Finally raked out the oldest compost bin, which I've been meaning to do for a couple of weeks. Got some token help from the rest of the family It's gone on the bed the squashes will go into whenever it's war enough. Looking as far ahead as the forecast goes atm (14th May) not a single night is showing as high as 10 degs, so it's going to be late May at the earliest. There were lots of un-composted egg shells, but I reckoned they'd be a good slug deterrent so cheerfully left them in.

DD weeded a fair bit of her potato patch, so I planted up some of the weeded patches with salsola, lettuces and purslane, on the basis that the more there is of what you do want, the less room there is for what you don't.

[DannyRam]

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Built a new raised bed and filled it. Its extra deep for carrots. Filled it with cardboard, news papers, half composted leaves, compost and top soil mixed. The uprights are for enviromesh.

Super job, Bill!!

[two brews]

Planted out cabbage celeriac kohl rabi and chard just a few of each

[horticultural_hobbit]

Weeded around shallots, mama H did lots if digging.


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[cheapskate chaz]

For an allotment newbie, I`ve got a fair amount planted, as well as made up raised beds, barrowed in two dumpy bags of soil, planted out Leeks, carrots,Brocolli,potted out some Toms into the greenhouse, oh! and put my Aspargus into tubs for now, and my lettuce too !what else....need to get my new fence up, with honey suckle to grow from cuttings that will boarder my two allotments, really busy and loving it.

[Martin H]

Spring is here and it's warm. So this weekend I:

prepared two beds for planting, put hoops and debris netting over one to plant out sprouts and caulies that have been hardened off;
planted out 20 Gladioli corms saved from last year and also a large number of little cormlets;
erected an 8 foot wigwam and put some runner bean seeds in;
erected a 6 foot wigwam and put some climbing french bean seeds in;
pulled up lots of weeds.

Meanwhile, Mrs H sowed more beetroot, lettuce and carrots direct.

[KevinM67]

Still up my plot - I need to get home, it's pitch black now.