Author Topic: What did you do in the garden today? (Part 2) (Read 94993 times)

Plot69 · « **Reply #40 on:** December 26, 2012, 16:19:09 »

I swept the mud off the path and patio. Six days we've lived here and it's rained solidly for 4 of them.

cornykev · « **Reply #41 on:** December 27, 2012, 19:15:18 »

Dug up some snips on Christmas day.

manicscousers · « **Reply #42 on:** December 28, 2012, 17:12:09 »

Started to transplant all the aquilegia, 54 so far, into fresh compost and I've put them outside while it's so mild. Got greenfly on

manicscousers · « **Reply #43 on:** December 31, 2012, 14:29:52 »

Been transplanting more aquilegia, mixed salad leaves and started off some more sweet pea seeds, don't seem to have stopped growing things

galina · « **Reply #44 on:** December 31, 2012, 16:14:16 »

Today only a bit of harvesting. Was asked to bring a green salad for a New Year's party and managed entirely from own grown stuff - with the last few cherry tomatoes, the last pepper, lettuce from the greenhouse, baby chard leaves, lots of rocket, cress, landcress, tiny fronds of fennel and a few spring onions.

Kleftiwallah · « **Reply #45 on:** December 31, 2012, 19:36:15 »

I cleared a gurt blockage of leaves from our guttering. Thyankfully we're in a bungalow.

Cheers,

Tony.

manicscousers · « **Reply #46 on:** January 03, 2013, 20:34:32 »

Plot 2 today, cleared weeds, took out cabbage stalks, raked over some beds and generally had a good time

Hi_Hoe · « **Reply #47 on:** January 03, 2013, 21:31:35 »

Cleared out my two plastic g/houses, washed 'em inside and out thoroughly. Emptied a few pots to re-use compost. Cleaned out seed trays and covers ready for the off!!

manicscousers · « **Reply #48 on:** January 05, 2013, 08:03:13 »

Transplanted the mixed salad leaves into a fish box, potted up the bits of rhubarb crown for the schools and transplanted their strawberry runners into new compost, I reckon all the goodness will have been washed out of the old stuff. tidied round a bit, don't half ache today

sunloving · « **Reply #49 on:** January 05, 2013, 15:27:04 »

I built the new chicken coop (xmas pressie yipee) and painted it white. took some red currant cuttings and put up the big frame over the beds to put out the broad beans and garlic next week.

Its begining at last. Noticed lots of new shoots yipee.
x Sunloving

lottie lou · « **Reply #50 on:** January 05, 2013, 15:29:08 »

Turned over two compost bins. My back aches.

tartonterro · « **Reply #51 on:** January 05, 2013, 16:18:28 »

repaired my wheelbarrow - broke a bolt when tipping out the frozen gravel back in november, took down xmas lights, started planning new planter

Plot69 · « **Reply #52 on:** January 05, 2013, 21:43:09 »

I staked out a 35x12 foot area ready for my poly tunnel that should come early in the week. And I fired up and tried out my new rotorvator but the ground was far too wet for it.

caroline7758 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 06, 2013, 15:51:19 »

Cut down rasps, teasels and JA's. Dug up the remaining weedy leeks as rabbits had chewed the tops off, plus a couple of large but very muddy JA's.
Nice to be able to get out without getting wet, even if the ground is still pretty sodden.

Nigel B · « **Reply #54 on:** January 06, 2013, 17:01:22 »

I spent the whole of the afternoon being dragged around the allotment by the rotavator. Between us, me and it, we thoroughly smashed up just about half of the whole plot, paths and all.
The plan is to re-site the paths completely to get even further away from all this straight line stuff I see everywhere. I much prefer a little mystery to a plot, a bit of privacy even.
I reckon that, with some judicious siting of the paths, bean frames, pea thingies, sunflowers and cardoons and all the rest of it, by the middle of summer in a couple of years when the nettle-clad teepee/tent has had a bit of settling in and is covered in honeysuckle, clematis and summer squashes it will all look great....
Can't wait.

That aside, my pain levels have shot right up again, naturally.

So bad I had to keep the rotavator going on the way home and ran it off the plot, alongside the path through the playing-fields, and then along the grass besides the road because I simply couldn't have pushed it home. It attracted a few inquisitive looks, but hey, you do what you have to eh? ;-)
New day tomorrow folks!

cornykev · « **Reply #55 on:** January 10, 2013, 20:18:34 »

Cleared out the shed and barrowed council compost for the past three days.

manicscousers · « **Reply #56 on:** January 11, 2013, 18:43:03 »

Planted 100 stretton onions, 100 red baron onions and 40 garlic cloves, some in containers and some in the ground

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #57 on:** January 13, 2013, 20:44:27 »

Nothing, but I've sent the last couple of days building and half filling a raised bed.

galina · « **Reply #58 on:** January 13, 2013, 20:52:27 »

Washed greenhouse panes, then put soaked dirty clothes into washing machine. Smelled of seaside/algae

Plot69 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 15, 2013, 10:13:29 »

I've got 16 holes dug and half the base plates for my poly tunnel in but, woke up and there's all this white stuff in the garden so can't do sod all.

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Author Topic: What did you do in the garden today? (Part 2) (Read 94993 times)