What I did today - 2015

[Snadger]

Dug up some parsnips and leeks and took home. Also a bag of freshly picked sprouts and some tatties I had been storing at the allotment.
Boiled the sprouts, but left them a bit crunchy.Par boiled the tatties and parsnips them coated them with goose fat,put them in a tray in oven.
The sprouts were gorgeous, along with the roast tatties and parsnips.You can believe what you like but veggies fresh out of the ground far surpass those that come from the supermarket where they have been harvested months ago and probably travelled half way around the world.

[cheapskate chaz]

First time at the allotment in a week....gulp! gonna get withdrawal symptoms. tidied up in the Poly tunnel, then noticed my Meteor peas have all put in a show, but as it was getting dark will have to net up tomorrow.

Winter Lettuce are slowing down, still only an inch, will make up a pallet bed to re-plant them into as shown in another thread.

[Scoot]

Today I added some wood ash to the compost I will be using in the spring for my tomatoes. I also added a little to where my sugar snaps will be growing in the spring along with a little bit horse manure. I also cut down all the strings I had up in my growhouse that supported my tomatoes throughout the summer and autumn

[elleme]

More digging/weeding new allotment plot today, taking advantage of sunny day.

[Gillykat]

Glad your allotment survived Snadger I popped up to batten the hatches on Friday and it seemed to do the job as there was no damage when I checked this morning

[Snadger]

The allotment beckoned after the storms we had yesterday. I went there with an open mind to check the damage. I got away lightly with a glass cover blown off my cold frame and smashed and about one foot broken off the end of one of my greenhouse roof panes. Others didn't fare so well and there's a fair few polytunnels that have been mangled and all the perspex sheets blew out of one greenhouse after the wind blew the door off.

On a happier note I dug two chryanth plants and potted them each into a 7" popt where I hope they will throw up cuttings for next year. I noted the colour and labeled them accordingly.
I harvested quite a few beetroot which are simmering in the pan now so I can make some jars of pickled beetroot for my hampers!

[Jungle Jane]

The hyacinths I'm forcing in the shed have started to grow shoots,about an inch,I'l try & leave it til they're 2 inches tall before I bring them indoors & into the light. Never done this before so looking forward to how they turn out. Watered the Brussels sprouts & lettuce which are undercover,moved a couple of pots around to shelter. French marigolds are finishing now,a few geraniums still looking good.

[elleme]

Weeding new allotment on Sunday. It was quite windy there too, I was the only mug there at the time!

[Lisasbolt]

picked 39 baby caterpillars off a romanesco caul/broc. Damn things grrrrr

[sparrow100]

Stinking head cold here so am reading all the new posts and surfing catalogues. Peas are poking their heads up in the planters and will need to get out in the cold soon.

[Snadger]

Shifted three wheel barrow loads of pan tiles from a vacant plot to my own to make more pan tile raised beds.
I heard a loud crash and someones greenhouse roof was blown off!

Time for a sharp exit says I, as i didn't fancy getting decapitated by flying glass.

[Penellype]

Horribly windy and intermittently wet here, with saturated ground. What to do? I know

Ordered seeds from Real Seeds and Marshalls: Tomato Legend, Mizuna, Mispoona, Lettuce Emerald Oak, Runner Bean Stardust, Pea Douce Provence, Leek Oarsman, Pepper Snackbite mix and Kohlrabi Azure Star.

Already building up quite a few varieties that I didn't grow this year. Now I'd better plan where I'm actually going to grow this lot!

[cheapskate chaz]

`baby` weather down here...( wet `n windy ), so went to see if my PT was still in one piece,it was..phew! inside are a lot of tiny lettuces on the grow, along side a box of carrots that has just germinated. Checked out the rest of the plot, all`s well, but as I have sown winter manure, not a lot to do....except drink coffee !

[Tripmeup]

Dug the last of my potatoes
Picked the last tomatoes
Pulled some carrots
Tidied one greenhouse...
Started fixing the broken roof window

[marcofez]

Collected 25 bags of horse manure over the last 2 days. Dug over and manured some of the bed, the potatoes are going in.