What I did today 2012-2014

[Mumbles]

Wouldn't be a Beagle by any chance?

No Alsatian crossed with a border collie. She chewed through our sofa and arm chair so I told OH if she chewed anything else she was gone. She must have understood too because she doesn't chew now (apart from the post &#128533


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[Bex]

No Alsatian crossed with a border collie. She chewed through our sofa and arm chair so I told OH if she chewed anything else she was gone. She must have understood too because she doesn't chew now (apart from the post &#128533


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My border collie eats the post. I have to get everything important, seeds etc delivered to work.


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[Florence Fennel]

Potted on all the bras (brassicas to the uninitiated ) to give them a fighting chance against the slugs when I put them in the ground. Moved all the begonias in pots to where I can see them, looks like the new planter will be next year! Had a good old tidy up and watered everything in case it doesn't rain.

[Snadger]

Fnished digging up a bed of tatties. Bed now prepared for either sowing broad beans or planting japanese onion sets?
Harvested some PSB which was nice eaten with my sunday lunch!

[Dorothy rouse]

Busy, busy, picked loads of tomatoes, and had a panic, as to what to do with them all, managed to squash another 2.5 lbs in freezer.

Lots of work on Plot, cleared all my huge rambly courgette plants, picked off last half dozen or so, also my 2 huge, 'crown prince pumpkins', pulled up outside gherkins, dug over this area, very poor ground, found builders bag of leaves from last winter, so chucked this on bed, and will cover for winter with fabric.

Emptied, last 3 bags of potatoes, not huge but, quite happy. Picked yet more cosmos, that are just amazing. Gave my transplanted strawberry plants a water, so dry here, we've had no rain for ages.

Decided where the Broad beans will go, also all the onion sets I bought, and garlic!

[skeggijon]

Spent most of the day weeding and then covering the extremely overgrown second half plot we took in June - had more than enough to do til now with turning over existing plot to a raised bed and polytunnel format.
pottered for awhile in the larger polytunnel, admiring the melons and hoping they ripen soon, before ruthlessly attacking a couple of the courgette plants which had started to look a bit worse for wear.

[bussinspain]

What I have done today

Sown Nantes 2 and some round carrots to see which grow best on my soil. Sown Milan and Snowball turnips, sown radishes for hubby. Also I have sown some Italian Rye grass mixed with some other seed that begins with the letter "P" as a green manure. I haven't sown green manures before so watch this space for the results............ I have recently re-vamped my kitchen garden. I am hoping that my veggies will think that they have come to a health farm next year! I used to have 6 x 1 x 10m deep beds but they dried out soooooooooo easily here in the Med. I now have 2 - 4 x 4m beds and 2 - 5 x 4m beds. They will be easier to keep watered with the drip irrigation system (I hope) Also these new beds should make it easier to manage the crop rotation. In bed number 1 I have some caulis, broccoli (heading type), red cabbages and green cabbages. Bed number 2 has some peas and bush flat beans. Bed 3 has the green manure in ready for the fruiting veg next year. Bed 4 has the carrots in. PHEW!!!!!!!!

[Snadger]

Finally got round to pruning (chopping back) my black currants, redcurrants, whitecurrants and a plum tree!
Dug up some tatties. "Bring red ones and onions home " sez she, who must be obeyed. Problem is, I can only bring the colour of tatties I'd planted! (luckily they were red Maxines!) Forgot my phone/camera to take some piccies for the GYO show.

A bed that had tatties in it had been raked and prepared for Japanese onion sets. Unfortunately it looked like the local cats had line dancing practice on it followed by digging a hole and dropping a 'present' in it!I will have to sort out some chicken wire to cover it before planting the sets or else they will be all over the place.

All my spring cabbage seedlings have been 'grazed' by summat or other so I may have to try a local GC for asome plants!

[Feral007]

To windy to be out long.

Planted a dark red climbing rose into a old bottomless milk can, with a terribly rustic old wooden ladder over it for it to climb on.

A gooseberry bush that I bought, because none of the seeded ones last once winter hits.

And a thornless blackberry that I swapped some globe artichokes for.

Then pulled up some more of the chicken wire that we put down around the trees to stop the chooks from decimating the whole area until the electric netting could be put up, and birds trained to jump back and not 'through' when they got a shock.

Looking messy but a start has been made

[Mumbles]

Picked up a brand new cold frame for �10 now to get the jungle looking like a plot and find it a home


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[joyceybabe]

Went for a bike ride yesterday (a rarity for me) but it was a lovely sunny day. Went armed with carrier bags and picked 4kg of blackberries. Now in the freezer. Will be turning them into crumbles with my apples plus some blackberry wine. Never seen so much fruit in the hedgerows. Happy days.

[NatalieCooke]

Potted the grapevine into a bigger pot. Will plant in the ground once the GH has been moved.
Composted the sweet peas.
Swept away the acorns of the path from the oak tree. They hurt my feet walking down to the GH wearing slipper!
I've set myself a 30 day challenge to sort out the bedroom ( hopefully one day be a nursery). So far two bags to the charity shop and given a few pieces to my brother. Working at Dunelm doesn't do me any favours!

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Did some long overdue weeding and tidying of half the main bed and then scattered green manure. Raked it in as per instruction and gave it a water.

Now crossing my fingers it will germinate and put on some growth as sadly my plot gets little sun from now until spring

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Had a potter!

Did a bit of whatever I feel the need to do!



Had a bit of a tidy up at the "Working End"




Init easy to just get carried away!

[marcofez]

Prepared the autumn onions and garlic beds today. Into every dug spit put the decomposing remains of sweetcorn plant topped off with comfrey leaves. Over the top of this, raked in some sulphate of potash. Will let this settle for a few weeks and then toward middle of october to halloween, will plant out onions and garlic.