What did you do in the garden today?

[cornykev]

Piccies Shirl.  ;D ;D ;D

[cornykev]

[robinaber]

Went to new garden hoping to finish digging one side of plot.Just a few feet to go when I hit the water pipe running from a shed to the outside tap down the garden.Water spraying everywhere no stop tap to be found.15 miles to nearest builders merchants.We  finally repaired  it .Why do people only bury pipes a few inches and cut across plots?No need to water for a few days.

[taurus]

Pruned the bramley apple, broken branch.  Don't no when that happen.  Cut back the grape vine.  Its trained over pergola so only pruned what I could reach.  Ground still very wet here.  Need a weeks worth of todays weather before going on the lottie.

[saddad]

Sorry to hear that Robinaber, we are very meticulous about where our Pipes go, esp. as I have to pay the water bills!  :-X

[shirlton]

Heres the evidence that Tone has planted his tatties. They are nice and warm under the polythene and fleece

[shirlton]

Here are pics of the 2 plots so far this year. Will have to put them on separate cos they won't go on together

[shirlton]

[Sinbad7]

Had a good day digging a couple of beds over and getting rid of brassica's the pigeons had feasted on.  The soil was surprisingly good in places to dig, nice and crumbly.

Feel as though I am on par for the spring now.

[Sinbad7]

looks really good Shirl.

[spudsmummy]

hi there  ;D
i managed to do a few hours down the lottie. i did alot of digging and finally have one bed ready for what ever i deside to put in there, the other beds are roughly dug, but still got lots of stones and weeds to pull out.  i had 2 very checky magpies watching every thing i was doing, think they liked the look of the fresh soil, lol  :)

[cornykev]

Spuds you must get a picture of the magpies I've never seen checked ones.  ;) Shirl looking good, hang on   :o  is that a plug I can leading to the cold frame.   :o        ;D ;D ;D   :-*

[shirlton]

Well our Tracy said "all ya need now is a heater". Are we going to dig them up on the same day or what????

[cornykev]

What day do reckon.  :-\      ;D ;D ;D

[manicscousers]

transplanted chinese leaves into fish boxes, plus leeks into rootrainers, raked a couple of beds to a fine tilth, weeded the onion bed, transplanted some 'freebie' limnanthes (poached egg plant) that were growing in the rhubarb bed  ;D

[shirlton]

Innit usually 12 weeks for earlies, will leave it for you to decide as you have the most free time ;D

[manicscousers]

planted some pre-chitted parsnips, covered them with fleece, they reckon more frost after tomorrow .
covering the competition spuds tomorrow  ;D

[shirlton]

No plot today. Went to see Mom and roasted the rest of the parsnips ready for the freezer. Going tomorrow hopefully. I'm going to put a parsnip back into the ground to get some seed for next year. Is it too early to do that or should I have left one in over winter.

[cornykev]

FREE TIME  :o Lets see up at 5.10am work at 6.00am, hard days work, listening to everyones moans and groans all day, come home look after the kids, cook the dinner then on the puter organising compo's and of to bed bearly dragging myself up the stairs.  :'(  :'(  :'(     ;D ;D ;D

[cornykev]

Oh I forgot cultivated the soil for the spuds, raked brassica area and put 8 shallots in pots indoors.  ;D ;D ;D

[shirlton]

Ya still avent said when we get the spuds up. After all yer the gaffer kev :)