Topic: What did you do in the garden today?

[ACE]

Hired a digger and made a bigger car parking space so we can spin right around. The soil has been banked to plant hydrangeas all along in every variety. Also sloped a large bank to turf and might even have a chalk  motif set in, something like the Cerne abbas giant if I had my way  ;) but most likely a stupid horse if she has her way.  :(

[cambourne7]

Sounds brilliant Ace :)

Harriet and i went puddle jumping after the rain then filled some trays and transplanted the border collection which has been waiting to go outside all week. I picked up some bags of soil so there gone into council soil improver as it looks the same as the crappy wilkinson stuff.

She found it brilliant to get the little stick and pop it up the little hole in the tray of plugs and pop them out after i had made the hole. She's defiantly a gardening girl got hold of my spade and was looking to do some digging but thankfully the rain hit and the thunder so we popped back indoors for tea and a finger of twix each.

Looking at trays of things sown before the bad weather :-

Red Florence - Nothing
Squash - Nothing
poppys - Lots
Marigolds - lots but leaves going yellow now :(

Indoors were getting much better results got aubergine, tomatoes and a chilli plant popping through although no sign of parsnips doing anything yet.

[louise stella]

Planted 4 Clematis viticella and a fuschia that was a free gift with them!
Black clouds rolling in now so my dinner is calling me!  ;D

[chriscross1966]

Hired a digger and made a bigger car parking space so we can spin right around. The soil has been banked to plant hydrangeas all along in every variety. Also sloped a large bank to turf and might even have a chalk  motif set in, something like the Cerne abbas giant if I had my way  ;) but most likely a stupid horse if she has her way.  :(

 Why not compromise on a horse with a big "member"? [adeptio me tunicam]

[chriscross1966]

After some fun and games with the rotavator refusing to start when I managed to food it whilst warm, I got 200 spuds into the plot .... 17 varieties... once I've had a cup of tea I'll nip down the GH and get sowing a bunch of stuff to get through the props before the tender stuff goes in next week....

[gazza1960]

Planted 3 more seasoned Blueberrys,then a Loch Lomond Thornless Blackberry,plus 12 Maxim Strawberrys.

Cut our first mixed leaves salads from the Polly today.... ;)

Rain arrived and drove me home.

Gazza

[Normylass]

Planted some seeds in the greenhouse, unable to work on the plot.....rain, rain, and more rain  :(

[Lottiman]

Finished planting the spuds,put out some more lettuce under the frame and weeded, then seed sowing in the greenhouse this afternoon after collecting daughter from her friends gymnastics party.

[manicscousers]

Finished transplanting cauli, cabbage and calabrese on plot 2, took the plastic off the spuds and re-covered with fleece, earthed some of the smaller ones up and gave all the fruit a feed  ;D

[cornykev]

Planted out 26 Sante
Planted red onions
Resowed some peas
Plenty of weeding and hoeing
Took a load of home and garden waste for the daleks
Earthed up spuds
 ;D

[Aden Roller]

Planted out 26 Sante
Planted red onions
Resowed some peas
Plenty of weeding and hoeing
Took a load of home and garden waste for the daleks
Earthed up spuds
 ;D

Now that was early to be up and busy!!  ;)

[goodlife]

Planted out 26 Sante
Planted red onions
Resowed some peas
Plenty of weeding and hoeing
Took a load of home and garden waste for the daleks
Earthed up spuds
 ;D

Been up all night?

[manicscousers]

We transplanted the first of the colossus peas around a wigwam and got another ready for the end of the week. They had grown brilliant roots in the milk cartons. watered all the plant sale flowers with a feed to bring them on a bit. transplanted 50 soft herbs, everywhere is getting mighty cramped  ;D

[cornykev]

Well it was over the weekend.   :D ;)

[Gadget]

Saturday:
dug over 2 patches, raked them and sowed,  (from the seed swap)skanse peas and telegraph peas, squeeky french beans.Planted 6 cauliflowers, made discs out of a broken recycling bag and put round the base to stop root fly. planted 2 rows of shallots, 1 row of golden burpee beetroot, 1 row of baltardy, 1 row of stripy beetroot. 1 row of simpson black seed lettuce (not sure what they are like so that will be interesting)1 row of radishes

Sunday:
dug over 1 and half patch, mind was willing body was like the wreck of the hespers by then, so in my seed trays sowed red cabbage and black kale and some broad beans and some tomatos and some corn on the cob and forgot the last one but lots of things to be keeping my eyes on ;)

Monday: thanked the gods for rain :)

[cambourne7]

looked out the window is about all Harriets been a madam and thrown a massive tantrum so all my jobs are behind schedule and gardens had to be bumped.

Anya and Charlotte potatoes have just turned up so as its raining again i am going to pop them to chit for a week or two.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Examined the bees, put some boxes of comb to sterilise with acetic acid, cleared a it of ground and barrowed a couple of loads of grass cuttings.

[Normylass]

Managed to do a bit of hoeing, sowed some seeds in the greenhouse, and watered everything in the greenhouse ;D

[Aden Roller]

Back-stroke.....

The rain is wonderful (even though we have no hosepipe ban here) but it would be good to have just a few dry hours so we can put something in at the plot.  ::)

[banksy]

Nothing yet, but will venture up a bit later and see what these 30mph+ winds have done to my broad beans  >:(