What I did today - 2015

[Lisasbolt]

Yesterday i was finding similar sized potatoes in the draw and noticed some are starting to chit. So have separated 10 little tiny ones. They are now sat in a tray to chit a bit more, in a couple of weeks i am going to try and plant them out in pots in the pt, we only get a couple of cold night so will keep an eye on the forecast and bring them inside if it gets cold. Even i just get a handful to have with a salad i will happy enough. I have not bought a potato since March and trying to never get any again. Wish me luck

[Jungle Jane]

I've just been potting on my Brussels sprouts seedlings & some spring onions,I used the compost from one of my potato sacks & whilst at it,lifted some potatoes that have been out there for months but with the foliage cut off,one had a bit of scab the rest are fine,I think they're Nicola second earlies but they could be vales emerald,I need to label things better.

[Martin H]

Had a decent session down the allotment today, first time for ages. I reclaimed my annual cut flower bed from the jungle that had engulfed it since midsummer (lots of nettles and docks from seed), I cut down all the fruited blackberries and tied in the new canes onto the supports, and I lifted the rest of my Charlotte potatoes which have kept fine in the soil until now.

My onion seedlings are romping away with all this mild weather, I'm glad I bit the bullet and planted them out instead of waiting till spring.

[Nannysally99]

My onion sets are romping away. That's the easy bit - the hard bit is to stop them bolting next spring.
Keeping them watered might help I expect. So they have been.

[Gillykat]

Picked the last of my Gardener's Delight tomatoes and then cleared plants away onto compost heap. Finished clearing other beds in the polytunnel. Potted up Pink Fizz fuchsias into proper pots (they were temporarily 'heeled' into tunnel until I found a permanent place in pots outside for them and five months later.... ) as well as the eight fuchsia cuttings I've had on living room window. Had a few spare daffodil & tulip bulbs (and no permanent bed to put them in as plot is being renovated over winter) so planted them in tunnel for a bit of early colour Finished potting up last of my strawberry runners.

Everything being wintered in polytunnel

[Snadger]

Dug half a 10' X 4' bed of Desiree potatoes so that OH has a choice between redskins and white skins (Elfe)

Took my two show leek seed heads out of a bucket of water with Armillatox added and broke them apart into individual grass leeks. Did as AP suggested and wrapped each 'clump' of seedlings in damp paper. On the way home I called into a local GC and purchased 50 litre of potting compost for when they are ready to pot on. Seedlings are in jam jars on window sill at home now waiting for roots to form.

[Jungle Jane]

I noticed some of my onions have sprouted little green shoots Picked the last of my runner beans today,chop & dropped the vines & leaves over the roots & around the shrubs.

[Bigmallly]

Had quite a productive morning, cleared out a squash that was literally taking over the greenhouse. Tickled the beds up a bit & replaced with 3 Peach Trees, 1 Nectarine & 1 Apricot, all underplanted with Strawberries. Looks rather good, plus a nice surprise that one of the Peach Trees had a golf ball size Peach on it, I've left it on to see what happens.

[NatalieCooke]

I'm in love!!
My first homegrown butternut squash.

[bario1]

More tidying up in the polytunnel, put my big hanging shelf back up now that the toms are out of the way.
Planted another 15 onion sets in modules. The first lot are shooting up already!

[skeggijon]

While getting things ready for the move next week, found some paving slabs I'd forgotten about piled behind the garden shed, so took them down to the lotty to make a paved area in front of one of the lotty sheds.
Rest of the day was spent packing for the big move.

[Nicos]

Cooked and froze 9kg apples. And now my fingers are brown!

Roll on the crumbles!!!

[bramble]

Sowed my Sweet Peas in modules.
Bought the in B & Q yesterday. They were selling them for 70cents so i bought a few packets.

[bario1]

Pulled and snipped up the remaining tomato plants and composted. Dug some chicken manure pellets into the empty bed. It feels nice and airy in there now!

[KevinM67]

My allotment site had an inspection visit this morning by the council allotment officer and in reference to my plot she used the words:

"You've clearly put a lot of work in to this"

and

"I'm a very happy allotment officer"

So I'm feeling very please with myself

Great stuff !!!

I'm really lucky that our association are quite easy-oasy, or I would have lost my plot years ago.

I'm really pleased for you, not only do you have the pressure of trying to grow stuff - you have the additional hassle of someone looking over your shoulder.