What did you do in the garden today?

[hopalong]

I know I should not laugh .........but I did ;D ;D ;D

My friends had a good laugh in the pub tonight too.  ;D

[hopalong]

[Mr Smith]

Fruitful day picked a couple of pounds of strawberries, five pounds of Home Guard spuds, two lettuce, radish prepared ground for dwarf beans this weekend, then went and admired  my mates gooseberries, Blackberries and garlic tight arse did not give me any, :)

[cornykev]

Sorry hopalong but I had a bit of a giggle myself,  ;D  I would put in a complaint about the police though.  :(       ;D ;D ;D

[manicscousers]

picked about 4 lbs of strawberries, romanesco broccoli, turnip, parsnip and carrot thinnings,  lots of new peas, pulled loads of overwinter onions and put them to dry, got little gem lettuce, cucumber, spring onions, red mustard  and radish for tea, only need tomatoes..weeded all over the place and fed them to the chickens, along with a couple of big, juicy slugs  ;D

[small]

Planted out celery and cucumber, sowed a succession row of salad stuff - the plot is now absolutely packed. So where on earth can I put Saddad's butternut squash!

[angle shades]

 :) picked pounds of redcurrants,found my grass snake in the compost again ;D

planted out more toms and gherkins and beans, picked coriander, salad leaves, blackcurrants, was given  pounds of strawberries/ shades x

[Sholls]

I tried to paint the nasty pebbledashed garden wall... then it started raining, again!

This has been an ongoing theme for the past two weeks, but I have to finish painting before I reinstate the trellis/supports which the beans, peas & squash will require. ;)

[hopalong]

Age Concern thought my imprisonment on their premises last night was a bit of a laugh. Consoled myself down at the allotment by harvesting the first of the garlic - Germadour, some very respectable-sized cloves - strawberries, raspberries, lettuce, onions, beetroot, spinach and almost the last of the broad beans (blackfly have taken over). Mowed and strimmed the grass and used it to mulch the potato beds. Weeded and watered.  Everything is looking great.

Also worked on a client's garden.  Branches of her huge plum tree had fallen onto the lawn again - second time in two weeks. The fruit was very heavy and the winds have been strong. Spent a couple of hours sawing and pruning to clear up the debris.  Lots of useful plant support material.

[Mr Smith]

Went to the lotty association for some canes and compost maker then up to the lotty planted dwarf beans picked some brilliant carrots perfectly straight and  five inches long just proves that the ground I prepared earlier this year to a good tilth payed off also two cabbage more beetroot, strawberries and Home guard spuds, :)

[manicscousers]

pruned the fruit trees, tops of the currants with the nasties on, weeded fruit cage, pulled most of the overwintering onions as they had fallen over, pulled 3 of the bunches of shallots, 28 bulbs from 3 planted  ;D

[shirlton]

We pruned our plums and gooseberries.Picked yet more strawberries, broad beans, cabbage and lettuce. Having a day at home tomorrow so that Tony can watch the motor racing. (after all it is fathers day).

[manicscousers]

poor ray had to finish off the polytunnel mesh doors, and it's his birthday today :o ;D

[shirlton]

Happy Birthday to Ray ;D

[manicscousers]

thanks, shirley  ;D
today, we pulled more of the shallots, sowed savoy cabbage, kohl rabi, turnips, swede, tarzan radish, calabrese, all year round cauli, planted loads of leeks and dug up half a bed of kestrel..transplanted 24 little gem lettuce, planted out winter  calabrese, red bull sprouts and alaska cabbage

[grannyjanny]

Hi Manics. I see you have romanesco broccoli. I have some cauliflower are they the same thing as they look it on the seed packets.

[manicscousers]

ours aren't Janet..our romanesco look like something out of star wars, if you want some seeds let me know..trouble is, it's a bit late now, according to my seed packets  :)
we grow more romanesco as it freezes better than cauli  ;D

[Sparkly]

We weeded through the parsnips and brassicas today. Yesterday we dug up a load of onions (now made into onion marmalade), picked lots of redcurrants and strawberries and some spuds. We also gave the giant pumpkins a feed. Everything seems to be moving on really fast now. In about 2 weeks think we will be cropping like crazy.

[caroline7758]

Cursed the pigeons for eating the brassicas I planted out yesterday (didn't have enough netting) and the bindweed for strangling the strawberries. Strimmed the weeds,trying not to make eye contact with my neighbours as the grass seeds went flying(Won't have time to do much over the next two weeks so it had to be done)  , and picked a few gooseberries and some asparagus.

[cornykev]

Weeded parsnips, brassicas and spring onions.
Netted some of the brassicas.
Sowed some more spring onion.
Sowed more sweetcorn direct.
Watered.
Harvested   spuds, beetroot, spring onions, lettuces and shallots.
Had the spuds and spring onions for dinner in the back garden.
Happy birthday to Ray. 
;D ;D ;D

[Mr Smith]

Back from the lotty after a flying visit to bloody hot up there even at 0900, picked my biggest load of veg for my mother in law to distribute to her pensioner friends hoping to get a pint out of it, ;D