Topic: What did you do in the garden today?

[carosanto]

OOps, sorry folks, posted twice cos I thought I'd lost the first one!

Caro

[Mortality]

Harvested another lot of potatoes and repotted some of the tomatoes.

[manicscousers]

took up some more of the autumn planted garlic, amazing crop this year, planted squash in their place, that's the last of them..planted out some lettuces between them..got to the grass cuttings from the bowling green first and mulched the spuds up with them and planted up some module sown beetroot where I had taken some onions out (refuse to buy them )  ;D

[Sparkly]

Good tip manics! I might do tht tomorrow

[manicscousers]

I'm trying to have some modules ready when I take something out, sparkly..we're moving out strawberry bed this year and I have some calabrese and romanesco to go in there, it was manured last year so I'm adding lime when I plant them, hoping for lots of winter crops  ;D

[caroline7758]

Picked up the bamboo support for my sweet peas which had collapsed, cut scapes off my garlic, sowed a row of coriander, dug out some couch (could finally get the spade in after the rain!) and spread hops as mulch. Strimmed, cut some rhubarb. At home sprayed my peppers with soap against white and greenfly, sowed kohl rabi and swede in modules.

[Paulines7]

I extended my cane structure then planted the remainder of my runner and climbing French bean plants.  Then I transplanted some tomato plants from their pots into the ground.

I did a lot of watering, some weeding, a bit of mowing and planted out some nasturtium plants.     

[SueK]

Moved some more tomato plants to their final containers outside and bagged up some flowers on others for seed saving.  Various watering & feeding.

[Jeannine]

Going to be building a greenhouse  wood frame  with poly walls , the only kind we can have.John buying the wood as we speak.

XX Jeannine

[Duke Ellington]

Dug up the parsley from last year as it as running to seed.
Planted some spare sunflower plants.
Planted a courgette, butternut squash and a pumpkin called snowman.
Planted a crystal lemon cucumber.
Watered the runner/french beans.
Watered the sweetcorn.
Picked 3 strawberries :o

[landimad]

Dug over the border to allow the planting of more seasonal flowers.
Weeds are growing fast so I need to keep on top of them.
First carrots and peas have been nibbled on by the family today. ;D
Sorted out more plants to grow on in larger pots now that I have planted more into the garden.
Ready to sow more for the veg patch and the flower border.
OH is having hayfever problems as we have three pyracantha's in flower at the moment. :(
Weeded around the sweetcorn and the sunflowers.
Still got green strawbs at the moment.
Trimmed the grass and dead headed some of the perennials and annuals to get more later.
Puzzled over why the hedge at the front has got some die back at the corner. The leaves have died and the stems too. ???
Always plenty to do and now I have to clean the pots that have just been emptied from planting.

[cornykev]

Weeded onions and cabbages
Watered
Picked about 80 Strawberry's
Harvested 16 red onions ( bolted so not very big )
Sowed 16 sweetcorn direct.
 ;D ;D ;D

[cornykev]

Weeded onions and carrots
Mixed and added activator to daleks
Planted out more marigolds
Watered
Mowed some long grass near my shed
I nearly forgot, I munched on a few strawberrys, don't tell Borlotti  :-X
 ;D ;D ;D

[powerspade]

Yesterday I finished transplanting my brassica, I had forgot to take netting down with me so early this morning I popped down to net them only to find bare stalks sticking out of the ground _ Those pesky birds again Well I had a good look and I think I may save some as the growing tips are still OK. The only other thing that happened today was I picked about 2 lbs of strawberries (Royal Sovereign) so that about 9 lbs picked so far. 

[smudger28]

Harvested 2.3 Kg of Lady Christly New Pots
Mangtout "Oregon"
Peas "Twinkle"
Turnip "Rubin"

Almost hand pollinated my Cantaloupe melons but have no male flowers yet :-(

Watered the polytunnel as per usual......

[landimad]

Dug over the garden and removed over six large trogs of weeds which needed to be barrowed out of the garden.
A variety of docks, couch, nettles, bindweed, ground elder, thistles, dandelion, cleavers, oxalis, plantain, chickweed, and groundsel.
Transplanted some primroses as they did not do well where they were.
All this done with two garden forks and a aching back.
But hey what a nice patch of ground it looks now.
Just the final hurdle to do around the top edge, from the Hazels to the Oak tree.
Just like the forth bridge, get to  the end and go back to the beginning and start again. :o

[gaz2000]

lots of weeding and watering

cut the grass near the shed,plot looks tidy

[cornykev]

Put up orange builders netting aound the peas
Harvested another 70 Strawberry's
 ;D ;D ;D

[gwynnethmary]

put compost round the runner beans to give them a tonic, planted leeks and sowed more carrots and beetroot-all in lovely sunshine!

[queenbee]

10 hours in the garden today, wonder I have not had sun stroke. Weeded, watered, fed and mulched. My lottie is small and I wondered how some of you with large plots manage to feed. I made at least 30 trips to the tap and went through a large box of phostrogen. Do any of you use a dispenser on the end of your hosepipe? and do you think that it gives an even feed?