Topic: What did you do in the garden today?

[gwynnethmary]

watered carrots which have just popped up a couple of days ago, and counted more broad beans.

[tonybloke]

performed an artificial swarm on one of my beehives yesterday, now I've got 3 hives in the back garden[attachment=1]

[manicscousers]

theylook really good, tonybloke, I'd love some bees but our site's too small..I transplanted my hooligan squash, planted out lots of sunflowers and an uchi kuri squash and put a plastic cloche over it  ;D

[triffid]

Nice one, Tonybloke, and lovely looking hives, too.
How far along with their swarmy preparations were your bees? Ours are still just making play cups.

Me, I planted another little batch of sugarsnap peas (I use 1 litre yogurt pots) and pricked out some of the truly ridiculous number of cosmos seedlings which I've been blessed with, thanks to my decision to  chuck all the seed left in a 12-year-old packet of cosmos into a seed tray to see if one or two would germinate.  ::)

[Deb P]

I humped 30 bags of mushroom compost that were delivered form a local mushroom farm on to my plot today, and spread it over the new potato bed, the first nourishment that soil has had in years! The rest went to top up some new beds and the brassica raised beds on the old plot. I now realise I could have done with another 20 bags or so..... ::)

[gaz2000]

made a wigwam thingy ma bob,just for a few french beans

noticed that one of my pepper plants that i planted out in the greenhouse has gone  >:( so got the slug pellets out for the others

hardened off my courgettes,planted out toms in a growbag in greenhouse

then in the evening i shown my mother around the plot,has been a while since she saw it,think i bored her  ;D ;D

[grannyjanny]

OH is double digging daughters plot. I am the lacky & really enjoying it. I am loading the barrow with manure for the trenches. Taking the rubbish to the dumping area, if only we'd had one on our site. Chatting to the the lovely plot holders ;), pouring drinks. When we had done there we went to have a look at our plot as we haven't been for a week. An hour should sort out the few weeds that have arrived, thanks to the no dig method. So far so good. We picked cavalo nero & white sprouting broccolli some comfrey for the chickens & leaves for the guinea pigs. Ate the WSB raw when we got in & CN with tea, both delicious.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Planted wigwams of Kent Blue Pea and Ezethas Krombek Blouwschok.

[theothermarg]

Put 4 kinds of cabbage in and covered them with netting. made sure spuds were banked up well, noticed lots of others with frost damage and even some runner beans that were slug pelleted, netted and quite dead !! felt very smug mine have been just sown in the greenhouse
marg

[Duke Ellington]

Me too Marg I only sowed my beans yesterday....and I have seen sweetcorn planted out at our allotment site without protection. For a few seconds I feel as though I am as always very late with sowings when I see beans and sweet corn in other peoples plots and panic for a few seconds :o ~~but I know its not worth the worry of putting things out too early.

Today I started hardening off some of my seedlings ~ placed them outside for a few hours but they are back in the greenhouse now. ;D I also potted up some lemon grass seedlings .. they are so slow but seem to be still alive. No sign of my squash sowings yet but I did check on them today as I do every day :D

[Borlotti]

Voted on the way to the allotment.  Just dug up loads of horse tail/mares tail roots and put them on top of water butt to dry off and hopefully die. 

[manicscousers]

planted some celeriac in between the peas  :)

[Tatty]

Did a bit of weeding and watering at lottie - soil/compost filled my 1st raised bed at home - will be planting it tomorrow - not sure what with yet!

[goodlife]

Potting up cuttings, potting up others to larger pots, planting sunflowers out , sowing first lot of beans and more squashes and courgettes, weeding, clearing (again) land from raspberries...they seem to pop up every where.. ::)ohh..just typing all down that I've been doing tires me out ::)

[sunloving]

I dug more of the new beds today and planted my first row of dahlias , velvet queen sunfkowers, helichrysums and some calfinian poppies all for cutting later in the year. Lovely to begin to put out the half hardies at last. Greenhouse still bulging with all the stuff waiting to go out. found some very fat slugs under the heli tray that was thier last meal.

Also planted beans into trial manure tubs as still havet found a aminopyralid free source near lancaster, fingers crossed for good strong growth.

very windy here and everything is wilting.
x sunloving

[gwynnethmary]

went straight to the lottie after a mind-numbingly boring day invigilating exams- had a lovely time with the hoe, and planted out some sunflowers.  Carrots are just beginning to show, and the POTATOES!

[sunloving]

I found these teeth whislt i was digging a new bed, made me smile  :D
x sunloving

[gwynnethmary]

I found these teeth whislt i was digging a new bed, made me smile  :D

Yuck! ;D

[Isleworth]

Removed the damaged plants, potted on some plants in the green house ready for the Plant Sale on the 16th May and then took a trip over the road to our local garden centre for lunch and to get 6 bags of gravel for the greenhouse floor.

My father then kindly built me a raised platform for the water barrel and then he started cutting the heavy timber to make some large planters that will be going either side of the allotment gates at the entrances.

[triffid]

Had a really good session clearing all the little pesky weedlings that have been hiding round the roots of the onions, garlic and shallots waiting till my back's turned.
Sowed my second batch of beetroot and radishes, planted out a row of parsnips in loo-rolls, potted up some cosmos seedlings, and killed a queen wasp scouting out the nesting possibilities of my shed (the second this year).  :o

Oo, and came home to find my lovely pack of T&M half-price seeds had arrived this afternoon. *kid in a sweet shop*  ;D