What did you do in the garden today?

[Duke Ellington]

We took trip to the allotment today. It was freezing! I was surprised to see two other plot holders working. We pulled some parnips and came home. It looks so sad at this time of the year but it made me keen to get going again.

Duke

[Duke Ellington]

[phlips66]

put up the frame of my second greenhouse and  dug up some leeks hopin to get the glass in tomorrow as long as the weather is kind

[manicscousers]

topped off some of the new beds with very well rotted manure, planted some strawberries and dug out the propagator, washed all the trays, still no seeds in  ;D

[rugbypost]

Sowed  some miniture sun flower seed  these should flower  begining  of may  and will  sow a few every month up to april. Really to cold to do anything in the garden 

[gaz2000]

fitted some extra shelves in my shed,and fitted a solar powered interior light  ;D

also planted some blackcurrants and made another raised bed frame,its to be the new home for my strawberries.

have a tipper load of mature manure to drop over tommorow

[lisaparkin]

More shed building and had a bonfire   ;D

[cornykev]

Purchased a three kilo bag of Pentland Crown for £3.15.    ;D ;D ;D

[calendula]

OH worked on tidying the greenhouses and I went through all the potatoes in Store to check for rots/ mice damage/ frost damage. Except for the Aura which had a lot of frost damage they were in quite good nick. Very little rot and only the epicure starting to chit...  :)

can I ask if these are last year's Epicure you have kept for this year - cos they are an early spud and I was wondering about how long they have stored so well  :)

[Mr Smith]

 
      Had a bit of a tidy up tried to net the fruit cage but it is a two man job  to cold to mess about, :)

[cornykev]

Layed out and labeled all the spuds in egg trays and stored them in the Summerhouse, I hope its not too cold for them in there.      ???     ;D ;D ;D

[grannyjanny]

Purchased seed potatoes. Twenty each of rocket, home guard, epicure & red Duke of York. £10.80. Tracked swift down at wyevale.

[landimad]

Not been able to do anything today as Eldest daughter needed help moving into a new place to live. Got a small town garden too. ;D
She can now start to grow a few little things for the table too. :)

[SMP1704]

Prepped fence line for the hedge planting work party next Sunday.  Got a fire going to burn all the branches etc.  Dug up the last of the carrots - pleased to see that the carrot fly had missed a few ::)  Created the second new deep raised bed

[Poolcue]

Belatedly planted some primulas,chased my cat out of my cloche and cleared up a tray of cat sh^t.

[rugbypost]

The weather still very cold trying to sort out things in the shed not a lot of room in there at the moment.Got deep trays ready for brassicas  all washed in soapy water with drop of bleach. Washed canes ready for broadbeans just something i do every year.

[tonybloke]

had a site meeting with the 'community payback' team on one site, met their co-ordinator on another site to arrange a scheme of work on there, dropped off some rent receipt books on another site, showed a potential new tenant around a plot......etc etc,
the joys of being an allotment general secretary (volunteer) :)

[saddad]

OH worked on tidying the greenhouses and I went through all the potatoes in Store to check for rots/ mice damage/ frost damage. Except for the Aura which had a lot of frost damage they were in quite good nick. Very little rot and only the epicure starting to chit...  :)

can I ask if these are last year's Epicure you have kept for this year - cos they are an early spud and I was wondering about how long they have stored so well  :)

Yep lifted in July... just starting to sprout

[pumkinlover]

Finally finished collecting the autumn leaves! :-[

[Borlotti]

Put some rubbish in the Council rubbish truck, which is quite small and we get about twice a year so one has to be quick.  Got given an enormous turnip from a nice man as he had a surplus.  Looked at the pile of horse manure but decided that OH could do a bit of shifting that next week. Spoke to the ladies that have taken on Manuel's allotment, and they are doing a course at Capel Manor, so seem keen and know what they are doing.  Did some weeding but got muddy and decided to wait until it is a bit drier or better still get OH to rotavate, I know it is not recommended but seemed to work last time.

[Froglegs]

Had a day in the garden at home.