Topic: What did you do in the garden today?

[gwynnethmary]

planted the last of the potoes and sowed parsnips, carrots, cabbage and sprouts.  Got very excited over our first broad bean showing!

[GRACELAND]

Got my spuds in !!

[cornykev]

Watered the onions and some seedlings.   ;D ;D ;D

[gaz2000]

pulled some pots out of the greenhouse to harden off for the day

then made my bed for blackcurrants  ???

know its late for them but a neighbour gave me them and they have healthy buds and shoots,beds a 10ft by 3ft with three 6ft posts

just need to drill holes for wires.added lots and lots of compost and spent manure and saturated them with water.

think if i keep them well watered they should take.

also removed a laurel bush as the inspecter wasnt happy with where it is?? wish he had said this in the winter rather than now  >:(

[saddad]

Unloaded and stacked some slabs at 7:00am...  then watered the greenhouses at 6:00pm after work...

[Ninnyscrops.]

Had a random saved flower seed sowing day, sorry about the layout still can't manage to make it look neat from Excel  ::)

AQUILEGIA   ?   PATIENCE'S   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
FRESIA (LIKE A BUT NOT)   ?   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
ASTILBE   WHITE   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
CORNFLOWER   DOUBLE BLUE   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
FLAX   RED   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
GERBERA   RED/PINK   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
HELEN'S FLOWER   SNEEZEWEED   HORSHAM MUSEUM   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
TAGETES   AUDREY'S   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
TAGETES   NAUGHTY MARIETTE   HORSHAM MUSEUM   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
HOLLYHOCKS   NIGRA   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
GLADIOLI   MIXED   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
GYPSOPHILIA   PINK   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
MIRABILIS   4 O'CLOCK PLANT   GILL   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
COTTAGE GARDEN ANNUAL   LITTLE PINK FLOWER   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
ASTERS   MIXED   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
CALENDULA   YELLOW   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
ALLIUM   PURPLE   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
DELPHINIUM   MAGIC FOUNTAIN    SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
JACOB'S LADDER   YELLOW   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
CHRISTMAS BOX   SARCACOCCA HOOKERIANA   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
STOCK   SINGLE PINK   GILL   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410
TEASEL   ?   SAVED   FLOWER   1 Greenhouse   200410

Some of the descriptions aren't very professional but easiest way for me to remember where I got them or what they looked like!

Ninny

[antipodes]

Today I went down and mulched the raspberries and gooseberries with shreded office paper, much to the amusement of my allotment neighbours, who don't seem to know about mulching. I first put several shovelfuls of home made compost around them. then added the paper and watered well. That will beat the weeds and grass for the first few weeks of summer at least.
My son helped me add compost to a large area then black-plastic it - that will be the courgette bed in a couple of weeks.
Then it was just watering, pottering around, tidying up. It's looking really good just now. First radishes should be ready in a few days  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Took the first tray of beans down to the plot, put them in a cold frame, and planted out three varieties of peas.

[manicscousers]

went to the plant nursery to pick up the rest of the hanging basket plants..moved all the baskets down to the big polytunnel and all the hardened off plants to the tables (only 10 days to go  :o ) then I transplanted 45 celeriac and watered everything in our polytunnel  ;D

[Mortality]

Cleaned out cat poo from inside the closh covering my squash and corn plants, little bugger...  >:(

Went to my local Wickes and bought some more compost to earth up the potato bags, got some funny looks cos it was shoved in the bottom of the pram.....just  :P.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Planted three more pea varieties, did a bit of mulching, and checked the bees.

[GrannieAnnie]

mulched, mulched,mulched,mulched,mulched,mulched,mulched,mulched, and mulched.

And my knees know it!

[cornykev]

Sowed some Sunflowers with the little un and did a bit of watering.    ;D ;D ;D

[Mr Smith]

Called at the lotty on the way home from work  and replaced the onions that the birds had pulled out,  :)

[grawrc]

Lots of weeding and earthed up potatoes.

[Mortality]

Put more compost in the potato bags and pots, weeded a bit.

[OberonUK]

Thinned radishes, sowed some carrots under cloches (We're still getting frosts but the soil under the cloches is nice and warm) and planted a few african violets (in the hope they will do some good). Potted on Pepper seedlings in greenhouse. Ditto Cape Gooseberry and some strawberries I'm growing from seed. This afternoon I'm sowing nasturtiums and some cut-and-come-again salad (in greenhouse). Already have salad leaves coming through under cloches.

[gwynnethmary]

watered, dug and hoed the leek bed, and discussed the possibility of clearing out and repairing a delapidated old shed with hardly any roof.  I'm dreaming of our own little space, with places to put things that's just ours!

[manicscousers]

transplanted the rest of the celeriac, sorted through the tommies I have, put the ones we need to one side, got 20 to sell  , plus 12 sweet peppers, last year had no luck, this year, everything germinated ;D

[gwynnethmary]

Resisted the Lottie and pruned the escallonia at home instead, and transplanted some Jacob's Ladder self-sown plantlets to the front border-Oops!  Just remembered I didn't water them in.............