[Schubunny]

Refreshed the compost in the bath, the old stuff went into the big veg bed and I raked that over.
Sowed parsley, edible leaf carrot and rainbow carrot into the new compost, idea being that the parsley should help keep carrot fly away with it's scent and I can harvest that for the bunrabs.
Sowed lettuce (dregs of the seed from last year), perpetual spinach and swiss chard. The spinach was from more veg so a small quantity and I sowed all the spinach seed on half a row, maybe not sowed finely enough. 
Noted that my fenugreek seed and rocket seed has germinated. 

[DD.]

Sorry - have have to say it now, before there's a problem.

Parsley, far from deterring carrot fly, is from the same family as carrots and is also prone to it,  so you've actually added an attraction.

If you put "carrot fly parsley" into Google, you'll find a lot of hits that say parsley is prone to them. Here's one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/advice/pests_and_diseases/identifier.shtml?carrot_fly

[Schubunny]

Sorry - have have to say it now, before there's a problem.

Parsley, far from deterring carrot fly, is from the same family as carrots and is also prone to it,  so you've actually added an attraction.

If you put "carrot fly parsley" into Google, you'll find a lot of hits that say parsley is prone to them. Here's one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/advice/pests_and_diseases/identifier.shtml?carrot_fly

Bah, i was a bit worried that maybe I'd got my herbs mixed up. I guess I'll have to net them as well.

[poacher]

hi all,i had a few jobs to do today but the weather put pay to it once again,i had planned to plant some stuff out but it was snowing and sleeting so i retreated to my shed and lit my hobo stove up to warm up a bit.i made my mind up that i wasnt going to stayat the lotty for long so decided to have a cuppa then back off home where it was  warmer and more comfortable,heres a pic of me stove which comes in handy on the colder days and does a good job at boiling the kettle at the same time hehe.

[richrua]

hi all,i had a few jobs to do today but the weather put pay to it once again,i had planned to plant some stuff out but it was snowing and sleeting so i retreated to my shed and lit my hobo stove up to warm up a bit.i made my mind up that i wasnt going to stayat the lotty for long so decided to have a cuppa then back off home where it was  warmer and more comfortable,heres a pic of me stove which comes in handy on the colder days and does a good job at boiling the kettle at the same time hehe.

cool stove that. how do you make it ?

desperate weather here today, so i will just pop up later on to throw a bit of cover over my young meteor pea seedlings.

[poacher]

@ richrua,rich they are easy to make,all you need is 2x large catering size bean tins and 3 normal size bean or tomato tins.  type (rocket stove)into youtube and it shows you how to make various models and sizes of the stove. cheers!

[grendel]

nothing on the plot, but since I was in france this morning I bought some french varieties of pea, bean, shallot and onion sets, plus some lettuce and carrot seeds, lets see how they manage over here.
Grendel

[JayG]

nothing on the plot, but since I was in france this morning I bought some french varieties of pea, bean, shallot and onion sets, plus some lettuce and carrot seeds, lets see how they manage over here.
Grendel

Sounds like one of those "my satnav doesn't always get it right" sagas!   

[poacher]

nothing on the plot, but since I was in france this morning I bought some french varieties of pea, bean, shallot and onion sets, plus some lettuce and carrot seeds, lets see how they manage over here.
Grendel

wished id known you were going to france grendel,you could have brought me some turner baccy back 

[Craig69]

Built a new double nesting box with perch above & fitted another perch (branch) to the outside run on the hens enclosure.

[grendel]

no it wasnt a mistake, awake at 2am, off to dover for the 4:20 am ferry to calais, arrive at about 7am french time, drive to bape griz blank to watch the sun rise, then to Auchan for 8am opening, a couple of hours shopping then back to the ferry to catch the 12.35 ferry home, home by 1pm and a quick drive home, then a couple hours kip to catch up on the day. this morning my wife told me about the cycle trailer she saw for E50, but forgot to tell me, would have been so good for cycling down to the plot.
Grendel

[grendel]

Ah went to the plot today, both halves, rotovated, and then planted about a kilo of onions, ans a row of shallots.
down the second half plot planted the rest of the onions, and 2 rows of runner beans, and 2 rows of cherokee beans.

[NN2Blue]

Managed to plant a couple of rows of spuds before the (very welcome) rain came and drenched me for a second day. Shetland Blacks, Valour, Picasso and made a start on the Kestrel. It's really persistently raining here! 

[Dom2599]

Went down the plot to find my greenhouse totally demolished from the winds last night

[snowdrops]

Went down the plot to find my greenhouse totally demolished from the winds last night

Oh that's a b*gger. Was it a glass one?