What did you do in the garden today? (Part 2)

[digmore]

We came, we saw, we went home.
Cold, wet and no milk.
Home, warm, dry and milk, will try again tomorrow.

Digmore. 

[digmore]

[manicscousers]

Ray dug a pit to put kitchen waste into, the peas with be growing on top eventually. I cut back the rest of the raspberries and currants, sowed some primecut carrots in a big pot in the poly and covered it with a big bottle cloche and planted up some living lettuce from Lidl. He also emptied a bag of mushroom compost onto the end of the leek bed and I planted out the overwintering caulis, all in all a good day 

[marcofez]

More seeds sown today.

"Medina" spinach

"Reddy" spinach

"Winter Density" lettuce

A few radishes in the poly border. ;) 

[cornykev]

looked out the window.   

[marcofez]

"Bramley" and "Breaburn" apple trees pruned.
"Conference" pear tree pruned.

Planted 3 bushes of each:
"Ben Nevis" blackcurrent
"Jonkheer van Tets" redcurrent
Had a general tidy up as well. Great to be outside!!

[manicscousers]

Took pink , some geraniums and scented geranium cuttings. Transplanted the small experimental onions into coir pots so the children can transplant them without damaging them. sowed some more tomato and cucumber seeds. Transplanted some challenge tomato seedlings 

[cornykev]

Sorted seed tin. 

[ancellsfarmer]

Transported hazel bean poles cut from coppice on Tuesday,ahead of latest flood,Tied them down to prevent them floating away on plot.Will we ever get a tilth this year?,I have my doubts.

[cornykev]

Dug some, yes, dug up some spuds, mainly Kestrels
Cut down raspberry canes
Planted three Winston early spuds under cover. 

[Golach]

Went down to the allotment today to have a quick look round.  The soil is pretty waterlogged at the moment but hoping, if it stops raining for a week or so, that will start to dry out.

I put an interest in a second allotment, the one running on from my one and got offered it just before Christmas so I have two allotments now.  The second has some well established strawberries on it and not sure what else underneath the weeds.

Looks like I'm going to be very busy this year.

My original allotment, where we dug up before I went down with 'flu or whatever nasty bug it was, has very little weeds on it now so pulling out as many weed roots as possible, although slower I think has been the best option.

Feel sorry for some of the other allotment holders though.  Several sheds have been completely destroyed by the gales we've had.  I don't have a shed on mine yet and perhaps that's been a good thing.

Felt really good to get back down on the allotment again.  Really missed it over the past few months.  Roll on the light evenings.  Can hardly wait for the clocks to go forward.

[GREGME]

dug up some late oca tubers- perhaps 2 kg
cut some purple sprouting broccoli and  romanesco flowers
rescued shed which had blown over
pulled some leeks
strimmed down some couch grass

[plotstoeat]

First decent day at the lotty this year. Removed all the hedge cuttings that the council had kindly scattered all over; it makes good kindling so not all bad. Planted sets of shallots. Turned over one plot that didn't get done last year. No rain to speak of. Knackered now.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've forked over the last of my raised beds during the week. I still have to top it up and mulch it but it'll have to wait till next week as my back's aching again. I'm giving it a miss today.

[gaz2000]

Been a while since ive been on here and hope everyone is well  I was absent at the allotment due to a back injury last year,but ive made a good start for this year.

Managed to dig over most beds and just have a large bed to go which ive covered in plastic.

Pruned and chopped at various borders ect and have hoed the pathways,sowed a few things today and have bought my spuds and onions.

Still plenty to do but im in the running again,having a long time off boosted my love for it,got plenty of ideas to aim for   

[squeezyjohn]

Lumped 3 car bootfulls of horse manure and spent hops from the local brewery to the allotment and filled up my newly built hotbed/coldframe (complete with velum skylight nabbed from a local skip last week!) to see if they actually do make heat (seems a bit like magic to me).

Also finished off digging in manure and raising up the new asparagus bed that will be planted up later on in the spring.  Despite the water logging on the lower parts of the allotment the higher bits are back to workable again.  Only 2 years to wait ... but it's going to be magnificent ... I'm planting so much that it will eventually be coming out of my ears.

[Digeroo]

Yesterday was my allotment birthday the day that five years ago I took on my allotment.  So I planted out a couple of pots of parsley to celebrate.  Normally I buy them from Tesco but this year I had grown my own.    This is our 6th year. 

Though I have been growing veg for 40 years so this will be year 41.

[manicscousers]

Planted up 3 bags of smile spuds inside, transplanted some tomatoes and celeriac, windowsills are filling up 

[galina]

Digeroo, I like the idea of celebrating allotment birthday 

hope that the troubles you were having with people helping themselves to your plants will ease and hope that this allotment year will be the best ever for you! 

[caroline7758]

Spread some old compost around my asparagus, artichokes, raspberries and rhubarb. Harvested some leeks and parsnips.

[cornykev]

Dug up the last of the spuds
Pulled up sweetcorn stalks
A general tidy up
All the jobs I should have done months ago.