[teamspotty]

Made some more membrane staples out of a discarded clothes airer (that had the plastic burnt off) that I'd found. Stapled down the last of the membrane on my fruit corner/pumpkin patch.

Cleaned off bricks (which used to have tyre stacks for pumpkins) and relaid them as I don't need so many as I'll be planting my pumps in glass recycling bags that I'd liberated. Cut off velcro flaps on the recycling bags and put holes in the bottom of them so that water can drain.

Gave our 4 plum trees a grade 1 and cleared the prunings and put them onto the ever growing burn pile.

Swept the fruit corner/pumpkin patch to be free of tree bits. All looking good now, only 7 bushes and strawbobs to plant...

Very windy on the plot and as I was cutting the trees I had a birds eye view of fruit corner, the membrane just rippled, so the staples work extremely well and I'm dead chuffed. Just need to find more metal that I can use to make more staples for the rest of the plot.

[snowdrops]

Had a great big bonfire,burning all the saved wood, weeds that we freed from the soil yesterday & anything else I could find. Pottered about & began to empty a compost bin,see separate thread

[davetoddy]

Pulled a couple of Radish from the pollytunnel ! The first food from the allotment !

[faithhowells82]

In the morning I've planted some tomatoes and onion sets, the children helped of course and everything was perfect

[Elm street]

Just sowed some Kelvedon Wonder peas and Aquadulce Claudia broad beans, also some Oregon Sugar Snap
Mangetout peas left over from last year! Spuds are going in tomorrow

[Hampshire Hog]

Sowed some tomato seeds in a heated propagator for outdoor plants. Also sowed some purple sprouting broccoli in tray in conservatory. they are supposed to crop in the summer will see how long they last into autumn.

Cheers HH

[Urbanite]

Put a fourth raised bed in.dug,weeded,planted some wilkos rhubarb,dug,weeded,leveled off the hump at the bottom where my man cave is gonna be sited,dug,weeded,had a big fire...gave up on the dug,weeded bit.

[pigguns]

More couch out.
More BBeans in.
weeded a bit
Watered all the peas & beans
Got a bit fed up with some kale so hoiked it out to leave more room for the very slow PSB.
Ol' Norm is putting his beetroots in today (Bolthardy he told me as I left).  That's now on my to-do list

hubby arrived to help & made tea

Send him over please!  My one seems to be malfunctioning 

[Yana]

Put two raised beds in where the strawbs were and now looking good. Had some shredded paper and grass clippings so mixed them together and put them in the smaller (but taller) bed. Will be using contents of raised beds on other half plot to fill them up as they are starting to rot and won't last another season.

[Bob after]

Dug over a bit more of the plot today, but pretty windy and showery so only spent an hour there.

Came home and potted on my tomatoes.

[oldgrunge]

My day was pretty similar.

[teamspotty]

Planted the last two tayberrys and 2 loganberrys. Only 3 loganberrys to go, oh and my strawbs.

PSB has sprouted from a 4 year old packet of seeds, taken me a bit by surprise.....

[Ema]

Popped down after work, could bear the idea of digging so hoed around all my herbs and put the weeds into the compost. Can't believe how quickly the weeds have grown a lot were in flower and if I'd left it another week would have dropped seeds everywhere.

Was amazed to see my peas have sprouted especially as I thought the frost we had a few weeks back had got them.

[Pimento]

Made and laid nine new raised beds. That's twelve altogether since yesterday. And pinned weed-suppressant fabric between them all, ready for the shedloads of woodchip I hope to pick up from the tree surgeon's on Wednesday and Thursday.Hopefully things may have dried out a bit by then...

[Annen]

Planted my potatoes. 5 swift and 5 vivaldi
Dug up my loganberry which seems to have died.