[hiccup]

         Hi All
   
             I've just finished sowing my first cabbage seeds (Hispi) also some romanesco,
                 cauliflower (All year round) and a few brussels ( trafalgar). tatties are chitting
                 away nicely, so that's me up and running for a new year. Cant wait.

[Scottish Mike]

Hey! I too sowed some Trafalgar seeds today, along with some tomatoes and a second sowing of peppers.

Went down to the plot. Didn't get any digging done today, just made a start on reducing my hedges from 9ft high down to 5ft. Need a new door for my plot as the ex-door collapsed into about 3 pieces when I opened it today! It went up fantastically in my little incinerator, so that's something, and dried Leyllandi makes wonderful kindling!

[Yana]

Nipped up yesterday for some fresh air but the wind made it really cold.
Dug up a few leeks for dinner and had a walk round and saw a fello plot holder putting his potatoes in.

[devonbarmygardener]

My plot is still too wet to do anything with

[Pimento]

DaveNE, what's a wicking tub please? Ssounds interesting.

[teamspotty]

Collected loads of carpet for pathways.

Finished off compost heap no 1 with a shutter to stop the compost falling out. Filled in gaps of heap No 2 and cleared round the two heaps ready for membrane and carpet.

Bought a whitecurrant bush, a blueberry bush (startled to find a pink blueberry variety!) and another rhubarb crown (Victoria). Planted the rhubarb crown.

Filled two potato grow bags with compost and planted two varieties of pumpkins - (old seeds to see if they'll sprout).

Then someone started a bonfire and the wind direction meant it came my way so packed up for the day.

[surbie100]

Spent a couple of hours staking the overwintering broad beans with some blackthorn twigs and noticed that there are plenty of slugs about...

At least they aren't lying on the ground anymore. Lots have flowers forming already.

[Dave NE]

DaveNE, what's a wicking tub please? Ssounds interesting.

Have a look at this video, I think it covers most things, cheers Dave tt_8SZpl3U0

[surbie100]

Bought my 6th rhubarb. This time a sacrificial Timperley early from my favourite garden centre. It looks good, it looks healthy. But then so did most of the 5 others and I think they are all ex-rhubarb. Fingers crossed the Rhubarb Curse is lifted this year!

[Pimento]

Thanks for the video, Dave, cool!

[Kevin67]

After having got let down for some wood, a neighbour was having a flat roof replaced and I got some of the roof wood (5 yards long, 1" thick and about 7" wide) to make some raised beds with this weekend with a bit of luck. Photos to follow!

[oldgrunge]

Sowed broad beans, peas, and carrots, and did a bit of digging, soil in superb condition. Covered it with cardboard over winter, and it seems to have helped.

[Pimento]

Not too wet there, then, OldGrunge? Still way too boggy here - carrot seed would simply disappear...

[Flowertot]

I am off and running for the growing season!  Planted my shallot sets and prepared the area where the onions will go. Sadly, due to the evil onion fly (or allium leaf miner - not sure which, or perhaps they are the same thing  ) having destroyed previous crops, this year's are hidden under enviromesh.

[Robster]

I've sowed my first peas outdoors.  I have some more in root trainers that are just germinating in the cold GH.  Broad beans are all up and about 6-8 inches tall now.  Celeriac (monarch), cabbage(Greyhound) and caulis (Snowball) are all sown, germinated and growing on in pots.  Pots chitting away and a few Lady Christl in bags.

Still eating the last of the cabbage, kale, leeks and salsify.  I've got to gert that out soon as I need the ground.

It's all kicked off