What I did today - 2015

[Snadger]

Sowed some winter lettuce. Checked to sea if my propagator was working.The perspex is steamed up so I assume so. I did soak the sand that was in the bottom of it before putting my modules of Monkey nuts in it, so that could be the reason
Pruned all the wayward branches on my indoor peach tree.

[Lisasbolt]

Feel like i have done lots today, finally managed to get some leeks and summer sprouting broccoli into the empty raised bed. Transferred loads of mixed salad bowl, pak choi, and iceberg lettuce in the PT, and sowed more radish and spicy mix leaves. Tired now, oh yeah crammed in a few greyhound cabbages.

[Snadger]

Planted 32 Monkey nuts then put in propagator. Dug up a carrier bag full of Tatties. Made a mental note to grow another bed of tatties next year. Had four beds this year which should take me up to February.Five beds should give me until March/April then earlies to take over after that. Cut the tops out of my supposedly perpetual celery (Kint sai) and put some BFB around my spring cabbages to give them a boost. Repaired one of my greenhouse glass panes but I don't know how long the repair will last.

[Snadger]

Quick visit to the allotment to dig some parsnips and get some sprouts for dinner. Dug two parsnips up but only needed one as one was mahoosive. It was so big I've chopped it up to par boil for roasting and its left no room in the pan for the spuds!
The sprouts are also huge as the pigeons took the tops of the plants out and this made the sprouts 'beef up' too quickly. I've left one mahhosive sprout at the top of the pant to act as hopefully the missing centre and allow more sprouts to form...........we shall see. The chooks enjoyed the leaves i stripped off along with some kale tops that had started to bolt.
I noticed i have a single PSB plant which will have florets ready for the Christmas dinner!
One of the top bars on my polytunnel had come adrift and punched a hole in the cover. I tied it up the best I could to stop it doing any further damage. Can't really grumble too much as my polytunnel is one of the few left standing on the site!

[Bigmallly]

I would trip up and get myself all tangled in the string

You're not supposed to skip with it..................

[Lisasbolt]

String & sticks Lis, string & sticks..................

I would trip up and get myself all tangled in the string

[Bigmallly]

Planted out 100 red onion seedling, I started off really good with my spacings and then realised my lines were curving into each other quite a bit.

String & sticks Lis, string & sticks..................

[Lisasbolt]

Planted out 100 red onion seedling, i started off really good with my spacings and then realised my lines were curving into each other quite a bit.
Yesterday i planted red and white pak choi, radish, cress,oriental mustard mix, summer sprouting broccoli and some green magic broccoli.

[skeggijon]

Did some watering in the greenhouse and stood for awhile looking at all the jobs that need doing - knowing that I'm not able to do any of it at the moment.
Had a chat with one of my lottie neighbours, who asked me if I wanted his old rotavator, since he's running out of space after buying a new one, plus a mini tractor and now getting told off by his OH because there's no room in the garage for her car. (who uses a garage to keep their car in???)
So now I've got an incredibly powerful rotavator, which I can't even move at the moment - let alone use, but it'll come in very handy when I'm fit enough to start catching up with everything

[bramble]

Got to spend a few hours in the garden this afternoon. Did some weeding of my onions and garlic.
In the greenhouse I potted on my Sweetpeas into big pots as they were growing out of the modules they were started in.They have grown so fast with the mild weather. The birds were singing away and it felt like spring. The temp got up to 20deg in the greenhouse.

[Snadger]

Lifted the last two Chrysanthemums of the nine named varieties I bought last year from Woolman's. After trimming I potted them each up into 7" pots These two hadn't flowered and had hardly grown at all! Hopefully all that un-expended energy will now be put into throwing up cuttings for 2016.! Because they hadn't flowered and the lollipop label has rotted away I am going to have to work out which two they are (and more importantly, which colours) by an elimination process.

While i was in the greenhouse i watered my young dwarf broad beans which are coming on leaps and bounds. I also cleaned up a few red onions to take home to compliment the other onions i took home recently.

[Snadger]

Gathered some brussel sprouts and some stored onions for my tea/supper. Watered the plants in the greenhouse.

[Root66]

Planted 6 varieties of spring flower bulbs (300) which took forever.
Planted 6 rhubarb crowns
Dug up the last area ready for the winter
Took home some leeks and parsnips

[Jungle Jane]

Planted out some bulbs (Tulips,Alliums & Narcissus) in the back garden this afternoon. Still got about 40 more to plant out tomorrow.

[Nannysally99]

Picked nearly the last of my carrots, must plant more next year