[Enfield Glen]

Two days of sunshine and have even got a bit of a tan!

Busy weekend - First row of spuds in, planted out first lot of peas and sweet peas both started in the greenhouse, 3 rows of onion mixed sets went in, planted out beetroot, cabbage, red cabbage and lettce under cloches, sowed carrots, spring onions, radish, more beetroot and spinach. plus more sowings from seed in the greenhouse

Back to work today for a rest!

[Auntiemogs]

Finally got the potatoes in.  Charlotte, Rocket and PFA.   

[Mattgregory27]

Last check on my plot before I go away with work for 3 weeks. I am going to have a lot of catching up to do when I get back!!!!!!

[Thephoenix572]

Planted a row of Lady C's and a row of Sharpes Express and dug a couple of trenches for dwarf borlotti beans filled with last years compost and back filed.  Threw 20 beans in a bag of compost to get them started and 25 parsnips in toilet rolls

[jmc1949]

Dug a couple of raised beds and removed the couch grass. Then planted 28 King Edward Spuds about 8 inches deep.

[blackberryjam]

Pulled up more  weeds, and emptied the compost bin has previous owner put weeds in it, and bits of plastic. Had a general tidy up, hubby said he had  seen a Polecat told him he's had to much fresh air  pegged down  the cloches, then  took some rubbish to the skip.

[Yana]

At last managed to get onions sets into the ground after starting them off in modules. Planted out 100 of each of Sturon and Stuttgart. Planted out 20 Golden Gourment shallots, just hope I'm not too late as I had to start these in modules too.
Planted out 40 broad bean plants into prepared bed, leaving a space for another 40 in a few weeks time (the seeds are about 2" high but need hardening off a bit before they can go out proper).
General tidy up and preparation of bed for sowing beetroot, parsnip and carrot seeds on Wednesday this week (if the rain keeps off) and found two parsnips that I had missed when clearing the bed late February. Suffice to say the parsnips were not edible.
Back home and potting up tomatoes into 3" square pots before they get root bound.

[allot2learn]

Two rows of Marro Bigga peas laid to rest today.  Now eagerly awaiting the shoots coming up.

[Annen]

Walked about a lot shifting things from one plot to another, anything to keep warm!

[al78]

Got one bed planted with early and 2nd early potatoes earlier this evening in rapidly fading daylight.

[fatcat1955]

Rotovated the whole plot, planted 30 raspberry cane's put the munty frame up watered the GH, hey where's the daylight gone?

[mike86]

popped down to water a couple of the beds last night, and on the way home spotted a shed heaped up on someones drive. a quic chat later and i was carrying flat packed shed quater of a mile back to the plot. pitch black when finished. but hey i got a free shed. now just have to clear the area and build the thing. should keep me out of trouble next weekend tho 

[jim1972]

Planted aprox 200 sturon onion sets and 160 red onion sets. Red onion sets from wilkos did not have any other name, anybody know what type they are ?
Cheers
Jim

[Wild Rose]

Drove to the plot only to discover hubby didn't put the seed potato in the boot like I asked Back home to pick them up then try again! Was there 2 hours and managed to get 6 rows of spuds in. Never done it before so feeling pleased with myself. 3 rows of 2nd earlies (Estima) and 3 rows of maincrop (Maris Piper). Think I'm regretting my choice of maincrop now though, just read that Maris Piper are not at all good for blight or slugs. I bought them cuz that's what we buy from the supermarket every week. Pleased with the review of Estima though. I suppose it's all part of this vast learning curve! 

Also, just realised that the tray of cauliflower (All the Year Round) has all popped up  Planted on 1/4/13. Got them in a plastic mini greenhouse on my patio so as it's been pretty cool I expected them to take longer than that!

[angelavdavis]

Horrible drizzly morning, despite BBC weather forecast    Thanks BBC - try entertaining and 4 and 5 year old in that!!

Cut some bean poles from the sites coppice - very late, but illness and weather has stopped me doing it before.

I tried to dig out some raspberry bushes on the new plots but the clay was too wet.  Ditto when trying to trim up the tuffets of grass surrounding the beds. 

I decided instead to take my azada to the decrepit tool chest on the new plot and easily filled four trugs with rotten wood which I took to the council tip for recycling.  Great to take my weather related frustrations out on the old tool chest!!!!