What did you do in the garden today? (Part 2)

[cornykev]

Still digging up spuds and spicey salad leaves, a bit of winter digging and weeding yesterday.   

[cornykev]

[Digeroo]

Not a lot.  Picked some parsley.  Ate a few last raspberries- slightly tasteless, nibbled some mustard leaves - bit of a taste kick there.  Raked a few leaves off the path and put into my compost bin.

[GrannieAnnie]

I dug this up...circumference 16"

Spectacular!  Am green with envy, Gwyn.

[manicscousers]

Planted some more garlic, just another 2 rows to go 

[cornykev]

I picked a few more tommies from my back garden.   

[Plot69]

Stroll on, been a long while since I've been on here. All of a sudden I get a notification out of the blue about this thread.

Bet no one remembers me?

[Aden Roller]

Stroll on, been a long while since I've been on here. All of a sudden I get a notification out of the blue about this thread.

Bet no one remembers me?

Oh yes they do!!!

Hi Tony.     I've not been about much recently myself.

You too busy in the garden?

[Plot69]

Oh yes they do!!!

Hi Tony.     I've not been about much recently myself.

You too busy in the garden?

No, I gave up my two plots at the beginning of this summer. A fox got all my chickens and with the vandals I lost interest.

We're moving in a couple of weeks though, into a new house. We've only lived here for 34 years so I never thought I'd ever move.

The good news is, the garden we're getting is 240x45 feet, the size of 4 of my original allotment plots. So as soon as we move in I'll be getting a large, very large polly tunnel, loads of chickens and the Mrs wants a bloody goat.

Not sure if this list popping up all of a sudden is coincidence or fate.

[Jayb]

Lol, sounds a great move, hope it all goes well. Happy home allotmenting (sp?)

[Plot69]

Thanks Jay.

Can't actually do anything in the garden until after the 20th December but this is the garden I'll be doing it in...



From the garage to the end fence where the photo is taken from is 45 meters so I got plenty to play with. Roll on spring, can't wait. Although I have waited all my married life for a garden this size :)

[manicscousers]

Wow, a blank canvas, all winter to plan 

[100mph]

Double digging manure. As yet there's no end in sight to that job. Almost certainly have more manure than I can dig in so I guess I'll have an interesting space to put a pumpkin on for next summer.
Cut a cabbage and a few kale leaves.
Ignored the collapsed side of one of my compost bins - it can wait  until the next scheduled 'turn over compost bins' date before I attempt to fix it.
I am definitely NOT enjoying these long evenings - roll on spring!

[phlips66]

went along to see if there was any damage from the winds and all was fine
just one plot holder his small tin shed had blown half way up his plot landing on his
fruit bushes as it went

[tricia]

Someone must be joking - it's been tipping it down all weekend! Not much to do anyway except pull leeks and celeriac as needed.

Tricia

[carolinej]

I picked about 2 pound of ripe/unripe toms from the greenhouse that my tenant left behind.

May make some chutney with them. Anyone got any interesting recipes?

Also discovered that they didnt manage to kill my potted blueberry bush

Just clean the doggie doo doos off the raised beds (Tenant's dogs not mine) and I think I will leave the rest till the spring.

[Aden Roller]

Someone must be joking - it's been tipping it down all weekend! Not much to do anyway except pull leeks and celeriac as needed.

Tricia

It is a joke this weather - I get one long break a week (about 4 hours on a Sunday) so it pours down  when I'd really just like the energy to cycle to the allotment and do something different!

(The next dry spot will come along as soon as I can't get out) 

[cornykev]

Sunday, I did some more Winter digging and dug up a volunteer spud plant that I had left and got the biggest spuds of the season.          

[small]

Despaired. Most of the garden is under water, the willow trees shed tons of branches in the strong wind and it'll ruin the soil structure if I try and clear them, besides which the place I use for bonfires is now a lake. I may hibernate till Spring.

[carolinej]

Too boggy to do much, but DH fixed the rotten feet on the bird table. It doesnt wobble like a jelly any more

[Robert_Brenchley]

Nothing. I had hoped to have a second raised bed constructed, filled and planted by now, but between the weather and a new hot water system I've hardly seen the place in the last ten days or so.