Author Topic: What did you do in the garden today?  (Read 877121 times)

Ninnyscrops.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5680 on: March 18, 2012, 22:24:58 »
Pricked out aubergines (Violetta Lunga 2) and lit the 4 wick greenhouse heater tonight!

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5681 on: March 18, 2012, 22:37:54 »
planted up our new gravel bed with lavender, thyme, oregano and basil-it looks lovely!

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5682 on: March 18, 2012, 22:38:51 »
Sowed some peas just for pea shoots.
Sowed lettuce and mixed herb and lettuce leaves.
Cleaned out my potting shed.
Potted on some pepper seedlings.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5683 on: March 18, 2012, 22:57:34 »
Topped up three water butts with water from the local stream which is close to overflowing after last night's rain but will be dry again within a week or so.
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5684 on: March 19, 2012, 19:53:46 »
Moved the asparagus seedlings, baby garlic and potato onions from the spare room to the greenhouse.

Potted up some leggy waterlogged cabbage, some tomatoes and some of OH flowers.

Planted more seeds.. Chillies and Anchocha for my son who loves them hot stuff.. and some beef steak tomatoes, leeks, cape gooseberries and lettuce !! Spare room AKA germinating room...

Oh... and more flower seeds for OH and some marigolds to companion plant
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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5685 on: March 20, 2012, 23:08:15 »
re-secured my shed >:(

then set about striiming all the grass and collecting bracken for a fire im having this week

a liitle digging,hoed clear the pathway and finished off staining my raised beds  ;D ;D

more sowing tomorrow planned and planting my spuds ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5686 on: March 21, 2012, 00:42:45 »
Sowed 60 masterpiece green longpod seeds in teh GH this evening in 12-cell trays...THey're the maincrops for the 30 Express seeds that went in a couple of weeks ago (and are now showing through)...

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5687 on: March 21, 2012, 10:18:55 »
tied lots of plastic over the compost heap, dug up a few more leaks, stared blankly at the mess in the shed, locked shed went home  ;D ;D

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5688 on: March 21, 2012, 12:04:06 »
More yesterday than today but I finished off my 20'x15' pumpkin house for a single AG plant.  I'm hoping to get a 1000lbs pumpkin this year (about 71 stone)

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=175037

Should be fun getting in to bury the vines and water etc.  May have to employ some umpaloompas to help  :)



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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5689 on: March 21, 2012, 14:49:52 »
Done naffall all week, been tied up at work on 12 hr shifts, so by the time I get home its dark already, hopefully put a few hours in up the plot next week................ ;)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5690 on: March 21, 2012, 14:59:27 »
On the plot this morning I sowed some broad bean seeds, and planted onions and first early potatoes.
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gaz2000

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5691 on: March 21, 2012, 16:21:50 »
sown my pumpkins and courgettes,some sunflowers and my sweetcorn

my sweet peas and morning glory have all germinated so need to get the wigwams prepared  ;D

put off planting my spuds untill monday as i can plant my onion sets at the same time then having more time

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5692 on: March 21, 2012, 16:34:22 »
I've just sowed 20 sweetcorn indoors, I see you've sown the pumpkins early Gaz.   ???
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gaz2000

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5693 on: March 21, 2012, 16:59:07 »
yeah i got a little carried away lol

one seed per very large pot so have plenty of room if there indoors a week or two longer than ideal


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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5694 on: March 21, 2012, 16:59:31 »
Back filled the bean trench and Ive put in watering pipes this time along the length, the old timers swear by this method so ill give it a go!!!
Planted 5 row's of 1st early spuds and finished of the digging
going to have a beer now while sat in the garden loving this sunny evening..

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5695 on: March 21, 2012, 17:49:02 »
Sowed Parsnips & flyaway carrots under my glass cloches also sowed resistafly carrots & 2 kinds 0f Beetroot.  Prepared my new raised bed plots (anyone know how best to preserve softwood for raised beds which is not tanalized)  AND chatted alot to my mates on the lottie, brewed tea,coffee,soup and listened to nature serenading me.

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5696 on: March 21, 2012, 18:23:47 »
Cut down the Autumn Rasps, weeded the fruit beds and overwinter onions.. put the canes up for the sweet peas..  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5697 on: March 21, 2012, 19:59:55 »
My O H cut the grass paths and made a start digging a old strawberry bed out ,while I weeded ,and watered ,chatted to my lotty pals ,Idid spread manure over the raspberry canes and put chicken pellets on the new strawberry bed ,we had coffee ,then of home :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5698 on: March 21, 2012, 20:59:32 »
Still no visit to the plot but sowed:
  • lettuce
  • tomatoes
  • cabbage
  • peas
  • salvia and ageratum

It's a start.  :)

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Re: What did you do in the garden today?
« Reply #5699 on: March 22, 2012, 17:57:36 »
Delivered some scaffold planks to use as walkways between rows of veg.. I wont have beds - I've gone for the cottage garden style with rows of veg either side of my main centre path which is flagstoned. Watered the broad beans and 4 rows of garlic as they were looking a bit dry. Carried a few bags of free horse manure from the main gate and spread where my potatoes will go in a week or so time.. Must get all my strawberry plants from the GH and roof to take to the plot for planting at the weekend.
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