What did you do in the garden today?

[manicscousers]

sowed mixed radish, red spring onions, cylindra beetroot and round carrots under the cloche on the hot bed, just enough space for 3 potatoes next week.  ;D
planted up a goji berry, hazel tree and weeded the onion bed and spring cabbage, fed them and raked over 2 of the potato beds. Also positioned some tyres in the squash/courgette bed  ;D

[manicscousers]

[brownowl23]

frustratingly nothing. Boys were due to go to preschool, but this bug thats going round has knocked one of them for six so he was home all shivery shakey with a temp.

Heres to hoping that they are better by wednesday as thats supposed to be another ice sunny day here

[cornykev]

Cleared out the lottie shed and F##k me would you Adam and Eve it, I found a 1/4 sack of Cara's buried under all my nuts, can I say nuts, is nuts OK, yes are you sure, right, where was I, a bag of Cara's that I had forgot about, I thought my spuds had gone down quickly, oh and I forgot yesterday I repaired my builders bag and 1/4 filled it with leaf mould, manure, 2 year old turf soil and council compost, I hate it when the compost gets tipped next to your plot, I keep throwing shovel fulls on will the vultures struggle up to the other end of the lottie with it, priceless.     :P :P :P

[calendula]

you forgot to mention the fire you played with as well  ;D

tipped 2 big bins of 2 year old compost onto the garden and spread it around and then it rained and set it all in nicely thank you

[manicscousers]

transplanted carnations and sowed celeriac, hungarian hot wax peppers and red horn long peppers in the propagator . tidies up in the polytunnel and then went for a cuppa in the communal one as it poured  down  :)

[calendula]

glorious here today but decided to stay home and sow some seeds - melons and aubergines, mainly using or getting rid of old seeds so not expecting much but sod's law will probably have a welcome glut instead  ;D

[brownowl23]

was to be digging.

Instead I found that my compost heap had been demolished, and my pallets i'd been saving had been burned. saws, lighters, glass and metal poles had been left all over my plot. Ok I have reasonable evidence and a witness to who was responsible and if I caught hold of them i'd be wearing thier crown jewels as ear ornaments.


So I spent my afternoon clearing up

[jimtheworzel]

sowed my leeks and onions to day

[saddad]

Snap... and some broad beans I put to soak..  :)

[cornykev]

Put a small, blue pipe fleece cloche over my shallots that I planted last week.   ;D ;D ;D

[manicscousers]

transplanted some lettuce for leaves into a trough, plus transplanted some more carnations  :)

[shirlton]

Made sure that the cloche was still over the tattie challenge patch. Did
tidying and a bit of digging. Planted 2 climbing roses that had been waiting in pots during the cold weather.

[Digeroo]

Buried some old brassica stalks.  Sowed some Nantes Frubund which has been chitting on the windowsill and covered with bottle cloches to stop the deer treading on them.

Did a bit more to sort out the front garden I think I am finally winning.  One bit is still a bit of a mess but I have decided to dig in all in and plant some spuds to clean it up.

[salvation plot]

I finally finished putting up my greenhouse in the back garden, instructions were all over the place, its taken me 3 days, thankgod its over  ;D

[Morris]

Instead I found that my compost heap had been demolished, and my pallets i'd been saving had been burned. saws, lighters, glass and metal poles had been left all over my plot. Ok I have reasonable evidence and a witness to who was responsible and if I caught hold of them i'd be wearing thier crown jewels as ear ornaments.

That's terrible, I am so sorry  :(   I hope you managed to get it all sorted out and the people responsible get the trouble they deserve.

[calendula]

finished deconstructing a large compost bin and spread its contents over one of the fruit beds, fantastic stuff it was too, finished yet another bed (only 6 more now  ;D) and sowed some more seeds in the green house - red aquilegias, yellow aquilegias, ragged robin, hellebores and some mizuna, came home and sat in the sun soaked garden for a while

I find it really upsetting when I read about misfortunes that some have on their plots - we do have some vandalism but not much so sympathies are expressed and hope things improve

[manicscousers]

transplanted some sweet peppers   :)

[brownowl23]

met with head honcho of the allotment dept at my plot today regarding the problems on my plot. As no one has actually caught the yob in question and made a statement they cant actually accuse him, even though the evidence is scattered all over his plot.  So only a letter is going to go out to all plot holders on our site. Not really going to help.

anyway today I almost got a whole bed dug over,  could have done with ten mins more on plot but school run called. Will finish that hopefully at the weekend - the plot not the school run- its OK I havent abandoned the twins anywhere even though one is really winding me up  >:(
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[Mr Smith]

 Fed up of hanging around waiting for the weather to improve, so I decided to sow my Chillies, Leeks , Cabbage and Caulies in trays, :)

[manicscousers]

cleared up the paths and planted up 2 beds of home guard spuds in the tunnel and replaced the cardboard over them, transplanted lots of sweet peas and took some oregano and thyme cuttings  ;D