What I did today - 2015

[Basher]

Potted on some veg for overwinter, hopefully some for beds and some for cold greenhouse.
Lots of spring onions, a dozen or so Kale, Nero di Toscana.

I also created the Leaning Tower o' Pak Choi, hope it works!

[SusieG]

Planted Charlotte potatoes into 3 grow bags. Left 'em in a tidy row outside my greenhouse so's I can take them inside when the weather dictates ...
Just looking through packs of seeds I've got and going to start something inside GH in grow bags hopefully to take them through winter ...

[vixylix]

I made three plaits from my red onions and shallots which have been drying for the last week or so. Also sourced some jars to start preserving!

I was at home yesterday and my GYO mag arrived just after I finished lunch. I then promptly opened the seeds and planted a few out in some of the gaps in the raised bed from the previously bolted spinach. Even I was impressed with that efficiency

[Snadger]

Strung up two strings of shallots, one of pink shallots and one of 'normal' shallots.

Sowed my ball headed 'Spring Hero' spring cabbage in a small pot. Once germinated I'll pot each plant into a 3" pot. I'll probably plant some outdoors, but also grow a few indoors for an early crop.

Noticed that my Seaweed kale is ready to go into its final planting position but I'll need to pull summat up to give me the space to plant out. Onions are starting to keel over so there bed could possibly be where the seaweed kale goes.

Weeded indoor beds of tomatoes.

[kris1960]

Cleared the north boundary, filled one black bin with nettles and one with comfrey, weeded beetroot and marigold bed and watered greenhouse tomatos.
Not sure whether to make into liquid feeds or compost- any advice very welcome.

[1Bee]

Lumpy, you know those wire hanging baskets? Like this? 18 inch (46cm) Wire Hanging Baskets - Round Bottom | Hanging Baskets

Pick some up when you see them going cheap. Put one up-side-down over your courgettes when you've just planted them and secure with tent pegs etc. The leaves grow through, the holes are usually wide enough to harvest through, but it keeps cats off. So sorry about your courgettes!

[Lumpy]

Picked my first red toms, threw away both of my courgette plants as the local hoodlum cat had ripped both of them out of their planters and probably had a brilliant time shredding the leaves up, picked some young spring onions to go on top of the lunchtime cheese on toast.

Propped my 4 containers of runners up against the wind - again. Next year it's definately dwarf ones for me.

Saw a snail trail that goes up the wall all the way to the roof on the bungalow - Oh great a super snail

[1Bee]

Pottered round the plot for five minutes in my office gear and heels, smiling at my babies.

[SusieG]

Weeded like a mad thing again yesterday. I'm getting there, albeit slowly- got to visit the 'outlaws' this morning so the weeds will have to wait until this afternoon...

[Ovce dom�c�]

Had to fill up the water barrels from the tap water, having another dry week.

[kris1960]

More running repairs on polytunnel- its a bit of a Frankenstien's monster now but I need it to stay together until the melons, tomatos, cucumbers and egg plants ripen. Two egg sized melons now- sweet granite and minnesota midget.
Uncovered, dug and raked broadbean bed to plant seeds- 4 types of onion, 2 of tatsoi, wong bok, chop suey greens and flowers of spring.

[Penellype]

Spent all morning stuck indoors waiting for a phone call. Tested sod's law by starting to make bread at 12.55. Weighed out ingredients, warmed the flour in the oven. No phone call. Mixed the dough and turned it out onto the board to knead. Took a deep breath, dived in, and you guessed it - as soon as I had bread dough all over my hands, the phone rang. Grrrrr.

Small hiatus in the lettuce supply at the moment due to forgetting to sow any. Took the opportunity to wash out the self watering trays and capillary matting and wipe down the windows in the spare bedroom ready for the next lot of seedlings. Picked a few leaves of the only currently remaining variety (Rosedale) and added some baby choy sum and mibuna leaves. Peas, tomatoes and an orange pepper made up a nice salad for lunch.

Deadheaded the calendula and gave the Red Rum runner beans some strings to climb as they are struggling with the archway. Found another couple of large courgettes while cutting off some leaves with the tell tale signs of mildew starting.

Discovered the wind had overturned the chiligrow near the back door and all 3 bush tomato plants were laid out flat. Luckily only a few bits of leaf and 2 small tomatoes were broken off.

Harvested carrots and blueberries for tea and noticed the first fruit on the Dixie was starting to turn blue. Dixie is supposed to be earlier than Bluecrop, but is a good 2 weeks behind. The carrots are great this year - I sowed them less thickly than last year and gave them water trays instead of standing their large pots on the patio. The roots are already twice the size of anything grown in the same pots and same position last year.

Time to go and water everything now as the wind has dried them all out again.

[1Bee]

Weeded, weeded and weeded some more. Staked the PSB.

[Jay-ell]

Popped out to a couple of garden centres today - not to buy but just for something to do.

Came back with a fork and spade, 2 chilli plants, a book on Insects, a magazine and half a dozen packets of seeds (including ying and yang beans - well I had to)


Got back home to find that the nice mister postman had delivered another magazine, two books on fruit and half a dozen packets of seeds (4 of them climbing peas).


Down at the lottie I started pulling off the female flowers from my pumpkins - I've enough set on them now.

Pulled up some of my onions and laid them out in the little see through shack.

Planted the two chillies (Demon Red and Apache) into the blowaway.

Planted out thyme, pennyroyal and chamomile into the path next to fruit bushes.

Had a couple of squash not yet planted out growing in pots in the big see through shack, hidden by the Tom's so I plunked them into the patch that the onions had vacated.

[kris1960]

In the last two days I have planted a hybrid echinaciea,5o leeks and some more chard in long flower border( put cavolo nero in last year so thought that I should rotate). Lots of watering, more tomato maintenance and weeding.
Trying not to get too excited about bantum egg sized melon( the others are marble sized). I don't think there will be enough season left to fill out and it is not very warm.... but you never know.... maybe this time!
Finally got round to weeding borders at home, it looks much more loved now.