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Stayed home today. I transplanted tomatoes, melons, marigolds. Stocks and sowed some more cauli.Got the pots filled ready for the sweetcorn. Tony had to clean the pool filter.The frogs really stir everything up and of course it all goes into the filter when it gets past all the other contraptions he has in there. Frogs spawned today.

Cleaned and tidied the big greenhouse, cut back a bed of Autumn Bliss rasps., weeded them etc... potted up sweet peas...  ;D

100 pages on this thread- is that a record??
Didn't doanything in the garden today!

I planted two lines of Lady Chrystl and three in a tub on the lottie and three in each of two tubs and some onions in my back garden.  ;D ;D ;D

Yesterday (Saturday) sorted young Lorna's front garden.

 :) transplanted some more rhubarb, getting the ground ready for runner beans
and toms, planted some peas/ shades xx

Just pricked out 100 leeks (Lyon) and another 100 to go (Musselburgh) and @ 50 Jolant... also sown 37 varieties of tomatoes...  :-X

 Planted my last row of potato's and a row of carrots in the allotment and sowed cabbage, sprouts,  lettuce, marigolds and sunflowers in the greenhouse.

Planted out some peas(maybe this year I will get some!) and 5 rows of onion sets (getting worried my seeds aren't doing too well so went to Wilko yesterday- not sure where I'm going to put the seed-grown ones now if they do survive!)Dug out some more couch etc.

Finished the strawberry yesterday at the lottie, but haven't made it there today. Have been working the garden. Ant has spent the last 2 days re-doing the filter bay on the koi pond and I spent today moving barrels (and barrels...) of soil to finish a rockery. Then I had to move all the rocks to put on top of the soil. Am knackered now, but pleased with the final product. Am going to go to the tip and am hoping to prick out a few seedlings before the end of the day.

Got my carrot bed ready, and my potato bed ready.  Put more leeks and peas in.

sowed some carrots, Ray sowed some more peas in guttering...transplanted some more marigolds and sweet peas  ::) ;D

Weeded my raspberries, blumin buttercups everywhere!

Tidied all the rubbish lying around, weeded the polytunnel, had a great big bonfire.

Off in the bath now coz I am all smokey  ;D

sowed my mini meadow area with my daughters with a mixture of saved seeds, swaped seeds and free seeds from blue peter :D. will be watching with the girls to see if they germinate.

also tidied up autumn leaves from around the compost area and the boggy area around the vege pond.

i wished i could have done more but still feeling a bit weak after yesterday's day in bed :'(.

dug my garden over, planted my potatoes, repotted quite a few things, put my large cold frame/ cloche and other cloches over the ground to warm.

Spent most of the weekend making a loo (or rather a makeshift toilet tent!). Really should do some digging..

More seed sowing in pots... for pricking out later,
Pricked out lavender, cut back last years plants (lavender)
Planted 36 varieties of Tomato, sown a row of carrots and a row of parsnips under cloches and fleece. Planted peas in pots and a row of Frau Heinrich and a row of Purple podded direct and potted on those leeks. Oh and potted up some tree onions....
Would have done more but it went dark...  ;D

Not enough time for the allotment today, so stayed at home listening to the frogs spawning while I weeded, hoed, trimmed lavender, planted some rudbeckia, primulas, sea holly, veronica and delphiniums in the borders; and did some mulching. Beautiful sunny day.

Went to friend's house this afternoon to sing with a madrigal and part-song group and her garden looked fantastic. Beautifully pruned shrubs and lots of bulbs in flower. Birds having a whale of a time on the feeders.

Sowed spring onion, pointy cabbage, cauli AYR and greyhound cabbage and harvested a cabbage and some PSB.  ;D ;D ;D

Ate my sandwiches, drunk my coffee, did a lot of chat, stroked the allotment cat.  Did weeding and digging and then sat in the sun.  Watched everyone else working, admired their plots.  Apparently Manuel's allotment was in one of the gardening magazines last year, but didn't he and me didn't buy it as it cost over £6.  He has done a tiered system of planting.  His home made greenhouse with old wood and polythene looks a bit of a wreck and the Council may make him take it down.  Went inside and it was very warm (his greenhouse), he has planted pots in the ground and it is full of seeds in pots.  Stops his wife moaning about having seeds in the bedroom etc. etc.  Planted sweet peas, runner beans, and cottage garden flower seeds and watered them.  Moved soil about.  Cycled home.  Picked some everlasting spinach that the pigeons hadn't eaten and some more purple sprouting broccoli.  That reminds me, it is still in the carriers on my bike.  What a lovely sunny day it was.