What did you do in the garden today?

[Emagggie]

Festered in my fluey pit and wished I felt well enough to go and dig in the muck that is awaiting me :(
Haven't done anything constructive for at least a month for one reason or another, and it's begining to bother me.

[Emagggie]

[grawrc]

I'm in the same boat emaggie. Flu then holiday in France then snow. Anyhow the sun is shining today so I'm going to have a wee look and see what I can do.

[cornykev]

I chitted my first earlies today, also dug over my spud patch to be and manured some of it, I also tidied the shed.  ;D ;D ;D

[bupster]

Dug a few square foot more of solid couch roots, then spent a really unpleasant twenty minutes pulling couch roots out of partially rotted manure (always cover your poo!), then used a spade and my neighbour's big french tool to clear a biggish patch of my accidental wildlife area (brambles and dry grass to waist height - still an improvement on when I took it over, when it was just brambles to head height). Also managed to put some cleanish soil on my asparagus bed, which is currently about a foot lower than it ought to be and in the shade (d'oh) of my leafmould container which I was very proud of at the time.  :D

[manicscousers]

built a hot bed,finished transplanting over wintering flowers, Ray and the lads put together the new cement mixer, fitted a new heater in the shed and measured out and marked out where the communal polytunnel's going  ;D

[grawrc]

I went knowing that I still had 9 beds to clear of weeds/grass etc before I could continue planting.. But guess what!! A good fairy has been and cleared 6 of them for me!! ;D ;D ;D ;D I couldn't believe my eyes. The whole plot looks so much better. Same good fairy has moved another mound of mushroom compost onto my plot waiting for me to put on the asparagus bed.

So I whistled a happy tune, pruned the autumn rasps, did about a third of the summer rasps and dug over half of two of the three remaining beds. (The third one is the summer rasps so I won't weed it until I've finished pruning.) So it looks like next weekend I'll finish clearing and start covering up my onions and leeks, which are currently being decimated by the rabbits, with mesh.

Ain't it nice to have kind lottie neighbours?

Must find out where the rabbits are getting in though...

.. and of course there's a downside to everything: there's a rat family nesting under my shed. :o :o Anyone got any advice on getting rid of them?

[Froglegs]

NOTHING >:( yesterday was blue sky's sunny but cold day,just right for a spot of digging. Today my day off it's like a pensioners bum wet and very windy, and have not go another day for 7 days. :'(
                                     Sods law or what :(

[Riffster]

Managed to get to the lottie on both sat & sun.

Dug out the old inherited fruit bushes.   Will now look back at threads to find the best things to do with them  ( blackcurrents, blueberries, gooseberrys ), Broke my spade & fork doing it.  Rough dug over that area.
All in all VERY happy to be able to get out !!!

[Emagggie]

Fed up with feeling crappy, so mind over matter, boots and warm jacket on and went off to plot.
I HAD A BRILLIANT AFTERNOON!! Harvested last cabbages and a romanesco cauli, sprouts ,swede,parsnip-then I got going. ;D. Shifted manure and compost to new spud area after raking away old straw to footpath, then I found 2 heads of garlic by old compost heap. They are sprouting so I have planted them, so hopefully they'll grow ok.
That will do for today, just need to win at cards tonight and it will have been a REALLY good day ;D ;D

[cornykev]

Was going to go after work but it pisssssed down.  ;D ;D ;D

[grawrc]

4 inches of snow here this morning and dark when i got back. I did the allotment committee meeting though. Does that count? ;)

[cornykev]

Harvested a Savoy for dinner Tommorow, barrowed two more lots of muck on the spud patch.  ;D ;D ;D

[angle shades]

 :) planted spinach out today, sowed lettuce in blackbucket in greenhouse, sowed leeks and onions in modules, did a bit of digging, bit of weeding,swapped a few seeds, planted a few tulips in tubs, sowed more carrots in blackbuckets in greenhouse, fed the lottie cats...... ;D

[grawrc]

lottie cats? Tell me more... please1

[angle shades]

 :) we have 12 or more cats and kittens which live as a group on the lottie, some folk feed them beef,ham and smoked salmon... I feed them my cats left over Felix ;D

[saddad]

Sounds like Six Dinner Sid and his mates to me...
;D

[cornykev]

Dug over and manured some more spud to be soil, chitted spuds.  ;D ;D ;D

[manicscousers]

yesterday, sowed peas in guttering, transplanted wong bok to poly border, sowed 3 packs of sweet peas..today, nothing, it was raining  ;D

[Tin Shed]

Rigged up some netting in front of the greenhouse, hopefully to deter any little darlings who think it can be used for target practice.

[jeanaustin]

Went to the lottie this morning and opened our community shed as people were coming to collect their seed potato orders which we sorted out on Friday morning. Collected a barrowload of bark/tree chippings from the community area for my pathway.  We had a trailer load delivered Friday (by a local tree surgeon) but its all gone now - its always very popular.  Fed the birds and noticed that the male and female 'pied' Blackbirds were back - hadn't seen them for a week or so.  Noticed that a lottie neighbour has a whole row of Daffodils out in full flower, that some of the Snowdrops are out and found one solitary Violet out.