Topic: What did you do in the garden today?

[gavinjconway]

Had a busy busy today at the plot.. I fitted my IBC 1000 Lt tank to harvest rainwater from the shed and greenhouse.. Also finished the foundations for the greenhouse to sit on - just to the right of the new tank. All going well tomorrow I'll fit the GH in it's spot.!!  ;D
 

[steve76]

 Took cambourne7's advise and built a new compost bin from pallets to let the leaf mould rot down more..

 Thanks for your help cambourne7  ;)

[cornykev]

Looking good Gavin, when your finished there's a few jobs doing around mine.   ;)
I did some digging, weeding and clearing up, and mixed the compost bins.  :D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Planted out some garlic I had in pots, made up an eke for one of my broodboxes, and did some pottering. My back's not up to hard labour right now.

[manicscousers]

Sowed some more sweet peas, sowed 2 kinds of salad mix and a pinch of wild flowers to see if they germinate. cut back the manky bits on the rest oof the herbs and disposed of quite a few slugs which had taken up residence in my red bergamot cuttings in the poly  :-\

[grawrc]

Dug up my Félicité Perpétue climbing rose in my garden and shifted  it to my friend's allotment. Gosh I'm aching all over ... so many roots!

I was pleased to see that onions, garlic, shallots, broad beans, peas and overwintered brassicas are all doing well. Picked up the stuff redistributed by the recent gales. It was pretty windy today so I didn't hang about for long!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

My overwintered broadies are a failure again; one remains alive, and it's looking pretty tattered. If I'm right in thinking waterlogging is a factor, then raised beds should help; they're one of my priorities for this year.

[SamLouise]

Had a picker about and giving serious thought to turning our back garden into a wild flower mini meadow :D I've got the wild part taken care of already! ;D Wouldn't take that much planning as the garden's so small anyway but I do love to look at wild flowers :)

[Duke Ellington]

I can't be a.......to put in overwintering broad beans. I start mine off in early spring and always get a good crop.

Duke

[green lily]

My broadies are in root trainers[how posh is that ;)] hardening off in the garden but I've snugged them in the poly tonight in case they get broken by the gales. Going out as soon as I've managed to fix up [ie stain] the raised bed for them.
They say Sutton are good for windy sites! First time I've tried 'em so we'll see. Nothing like a good estuary wind tunnel for a test run.. ::)
Main crop of Windsors'll go in later

[shirlton]

Emptied 9 bags of donkey poo into the compost bin and covered it with some straw that was left from last year.
Fed the robin his mealworms.
We dont go more than once a week now cos there isn't that much to do now we only have 1 plot but he is still there when we do go. He had his lady friend with him  this time.
We will be glad when things start growing so that we have more to do. I miss the excercise.

[gwynleg]

Only just looking at this page. Gavinjconway - that is some shed!! We are only allowed a 6' by 4' shed so thats my excuse for not having anything as brilliant as that. Looking forward to pics of the greenhouse.

[rugbypost]

Still to wet here will clean some pots ready for planting

[sheddie]

still too wet for digging here. Tried a bit, but was 6 inches taller within 15 minutes, so gave up and gave the shed a long overdue tidy out. ;D

[gavinjconway]

Only just looking at this page. Gavinjconway - that is some shed!! We are only allowed a 6' by 4' shed so thats my excuse for not having anything as brilliant as that. Looking forward to pics of the greenhouse.

The shed is 7x5 and the GH is 8x6... our limit is 8x8 I was told by someone..

[gavinjconway]

Another busy day today. Fitted the greenhouse in its place. Then deeply dug and turned the soil in the GH (no glass fitted yet), then added manure mixed with shavings and fertilizer and dug it all in.  Then started to shift the extra soil adjacent to the GH outside on the pathway that will be flagged once cleared.. My back aches today!! My plan is to grow directly in the ground so all the big dig and preparation.. Worms please do your thing...

GH fitted - Manure with shavings added..


Shovelled more soil in from the pathway

[shirlton]

Your set up looks the bees knees

[gavinjconway]

Your set up looks the bees knees

It's getting there...   Still got a lot of digging to do when the ground dries and is ready for digging. Although where I was digging in the GH and pathway yesterday it is fairly friable and only damp once you get below the sticky 2" on top..   But still got some other works to be done first... flagging and making a storage area lean to behind the shed.. watch this space. ;D

[claybasket]

Had a busy busy today at the plot.. I fitted my IBC 1000 Lt tank to harvest rainwater from the shed and greenhouse.. Also finished the foundations for the greenhouse to sit on - just to the right of the new tank. All going well tomorrow I'll fit the GH in it's spot.!!  ;D
 

  your new plot looks brill Gavin ,were did you get the monster tank from? it look great was it expensive? sorry for being nosey.i would love a weebit smaller one ! I look farward to your posts of your progress happy digging ;)

[Pescador]

Finished spreading manure on the legumes patch, (late, I know); weeded half the brassica patch, and burned some of the frame from the greenhouse that I'm taking down.