[Kim50]

Cara, LC and Charlotte all in today.  Last of the leeks and some hairy celeriac pulled.  Broadbeans flowering and loads of ladybirds around. 

[Currysniffa]

Finish off my freebie greenhouse.

[pawsnclaws]

today I planted some potatoes, charlotte and some others that i cant remember lol planted some carrots in pots and a couple of courgettes, palnted some onions, my 13 yo son cleard the end bit of garden, I planted some more bits in the green house, cleared one of the raised beds

[DD.]

Can I ask where you planted those courgettes?

[pawsnclaws]

In a little pot in me green house ready to put in me big tubs when they grow a bit, now you are going to tell me i have done it all wrong arnt you lol 

[Paul Plots]

In a little pot in me green house ready to put in me big tubs when they grow a bit, now you are going to tell me i have done it all wrong arnt you lol 

I wouldn't say you had done anything wrong but it is a little early unless you can keep them nice and warm and slow their growth down until it's time to go outside in the big wide world. 

What do you think DD? Warm enough yet?

[midlife crisis47]

Hi all

I am new to this so please bear with me.  I haven't done anything on the allotment today yet but thought I would tell you what I have done so far.

I gained my own half plot last Monday and have nearly finished digging it.  Hardly any weeds so not so bad.  Still got backache tho.

I have tomatoes planted about 3 weeks ago in pots already growing nicely.  I planted sweetcorn and cucumber in pots Wednesday and Thursday last week and impatiently waiting for them to start growing lol.

One of my sons has a quarter plot so planted some red onions about 3 weeks ago as well.  Still waiting for them to start growing. One of the other plot holders gave us some strawberry plants and they are starting to flower.  Can't wait for lovely fresh strawberries.

I planted a plum tree in my back garden about 2 weeks ago.

I was told to soak peas for a couple of days to sprout before planting as mice don't like them like that.  I had them soaking for nearly a week and nothing apart from the water going cloudy and the peas going soft.

If the weather holds off today I will go and plant some beetroot, carrots and parsnips on the plot, although a fellow plot holder has said it's too early for beetroot. It says on the packet to plant from March.

So that's me.  How are you all getting on?

Anne

[plum crumble]

well! Moi and OH spread a TON of manure over the required area of the lottie - lovely well-rotted horse poo with straw.

[Paul Plots]

Sounds as if you've been busy Anne (midlife crisis47). Good luck to you.

I'm sat sitting here wishing I had decided to go back to my plot and put in more of the potatoes before it started "thinking about" raining. 

Oh well... at least I have three and a half rows getting a little dampness to start them off.

(I just hope the foxes haven't unearthed them already!)

[DD.]

Ooops - you only soak peas overnight - if you must, I don't bother.

If you've left them in water for a week, chances are they'll go rotten.

[Brummie]

Got to my shed, opened the door, it started raining, closed the door and went home! Got home and it stopped raining!

[Christo]

Dug out a raspberry bed today and got some currant bushes and rhubarb in the ground. Those raspberry roots are tough cookies to dig out I can tell ya. Lovely day though. 

[pawsnclaws]

Today i dug up the last rraised bed, rotivsted the end bit ready to do something with, sowed some peas ummm cleared up the side bit of garden that has a few flowers and fruit bushs/trees along am thinking maybe i could plant my sweetcorn there too  maybe thats about it today

[Mafro]

Dug over my alium and roots beds.  Cleared loads of stones ready for onion and garlic and carrots and parsnips to be planted / sown tomorrow.

[greentig3r]

Between yesterday and today we got lots done- shed cleaned out, some compost sieved, some beds dressed with compost/manure, last of the onions out of the ground and harvested some chard, rhubarb and chives.

Sowed cabbages, broccoli, kale in cold frame. Lettuces, rocket, corn salad and leaf mustard under fleece. Carrots under fleece, onion seeds under plastic and sets in the open. New potatoes, jerusalem artichokes,broad beans, peas and mange touts. Also a bit of green manure where I'll plant some beans later on.

The peas and salad crops were all last years' seed, just thought we'd take the chance. 

Still haven't started my tomatoes though!