Author Topic: What did you do in the garden today? (Read 882899 times)

lottie lou · « **Reply #1400 on:** October 19, 2008, 21:10:52 »

put in my winter onions and garlic. do we put our shallots in now or in spring?

ninnyscrops · « **Reply #1401 on:** October 19, 2008, 21:16:23 »

Dug over the bean bed, plucked some leeks, a savoy cabbage, a couple of parsnips. All going in the soup for tomorrow evening once we've demolished the roast chicken and boiled up the carcass. ;)

Ninnyscrops

hopalong · « **Reply #1402 on:** October 20, 2008, 18:11:58 »

Gave an overgrown and very dense laurel bush/tree a long overdue heavy prune to let some more light into the garden. It looks like making a huge difference and I'm looking forward to growing a wider variety of plants.

lorna · « **Reply #1403 on:** October 20, 2008, 18:52:39 »

Nothing :'( Raining nearly all day.

KLCG · « **Reply #1404 on:** October 20, 2008, 19:07:55 »

I finished digging over my plot - ;D

cambourne7 · « **Reply #1405 on:** October 20, 2008, 19:17:08 »

I am going up to my plot for the first time in about 6 weeks this week when it stops raining.
I have some onions to harvest and loads of beds to start digging over and preparing for next year. Got a list a mile long of jobs that need doing we have pulled out of the house move so the allotments mine for another year at least till we find another house we like :(

Mr Smith · « **Reply #1406 on:** October 22, 2008, 12:46:01 »

Cleaned out the allotment shed and cleaned all the muck of the tools with a wire brush and brought the tools home, so if before I forget 'Happy Christmas' everyone ;D

cambourne7 · « **Reply #1407 on:** October 23, 2008, 17:24:00 »

Looks like winter has come early, has some very cold nights here in cambridge and looking at next weeks weather there is some sleet on the way :(

Its still far 2 windy 23 mph to go onto the allotments so picked up my over wintering onion sets and garlic today and plan to take advantage of a promised lull on friday.

cornykev · « **Reply #1408 on:** October 23, 2008, 19:06:52 »

Harvested carrots and a small cucumber, dug up some more PFA's and took home some Kestrels. ;D ;D ;D

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #1409 on:** October 23, 2008, 20:42:46 »

I did my rent collecting bit at the weekend. I didn't get down today, but yesterday I put in ten rows of overwintering onions. Next job is the rest of the garlic.

cornykev · « **Reply #1410 on:** October 25, 2008, 21:55:47 »

Harvested carrots, sweetcorn and parsnips. ;D ;D ;D

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #1411 on:** October 25, 2008, 22:27:35 »

We had an Open Day in conjunction with the Apple Day at the Botanical Gardens next door, so I spent an hour welcoming visitors, had a wander round, then looked round the Botanicals. The Tennis Club is relaying one of its grass courts, so I acquired some turf at the same time.

posie · « **Reply #1412 on:** October 27, 2008, 14:34:41 »

Well today I managed to dig a patch clear of couch to put my fruit bushes in. So I've now planted 2 raspberry, 1 blackberry, 1 tayberry and 2 blueberry bushes. Tried digging the onion bed so I could get those in, but the soil is so wet and sticky I gave up half way through! Going to wait for frost over next couple of days to dry it out a bit. That's about it really. Hopefully will get another couple of days up there over the next week to really work on it. Fingers crossed! :)

cornykev · « **Reply #1413 on:** October 27, 2008, 20:28:45 »

Dug up some more PFA's, harvested four butternut squash and took home some Kestrels. ;D ;D ;D

tartonterro · « **Reply #1414 on:** October 27, 2008, 20:30:13 »

put a fleese closh over my spring cabbage, cauliflowers and curly kale - not bad in the pitch black lol

Lauren S · « **Reply #1415 on:** October 27, 2008, 21:48:26 »

Collected 20 bags of cow manure, with a fellow allotmenteer (we are sharing a plot). Will be doing the same again on Saturday before the farmer moves the pile into an open field. Too far to walk with the bags as I might get my car stuck in the field if I drive in. ::)
We were going to do a second run for more, but rain stopped play :-[

trinity · « **Reply #1416 on:** October 27, 2008, 22:30:14 »

just went and tided up and marked out the rest of the beds. still not feellind 100% but it was nice to get out of the house (kids are on school hol's) and the kids had a bit of a run round (up and down the path on the side of the plot for some strange reason ???) and it tired them out a bit

hopalong · « **Reply #1417 on:** October 27, 2008, 23:51:53 »

Didn't go to the lottie today but spent a lovely day in the garden tidying up the borders, planting lots of bulbs, mulching and having a bonfire. I seem to have bought a lot of dark purple (nearly black) and white tulips without realising it - the Magpies supporter in me coming out, I suppose.

cornykev · « **Reply #1418 on:** October 28, 2008, 18:52:48 »

Dug up more PFA's, harvested carrots, celeriac and spring onions, filled up two big black bags of leaves from the park. ;D ;D ;D

saddad · « **Reply #1419 on:** October 28, 2008, 19:23:51 »

Still harvesting Corn Kev... I am impressed... ;D

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