[Dan78]

Ended up spending the day watching bits of the wedding and building a 10foot trampoline! My son(s) seem to love it!  Just got to build the enclosure for it tomorrow morning then will be heading to the plot!

[Paul Plots]

In the greenhouse..... sorted out the tomato plants to give away to friends and family putting my own to one side.

Last year my parents gave away some of the varieties I'd wanted to grow on. 

[Springlands]

Yesterday I watched the wedding and then transplanted lots of seedlings. More seedlings to transplant and water today. Need some rain cos the ground is too hard to dig. Oh yes - and swept up the grass after OH had strimmed the edges of the paths.

[Irene]

Planted peas, more onions. Watered. A very warm wind blowing in West Cumbria today and everything is a bit thirsty. Beets are now showing...as are several other items. Taking a break then will go back to the garden.

Someone previously asked me if I had soaked by Snowball turnip seeds. I apologize for the late response but "No". I didn't even know you could or should. Mine have always done quite well just packet to ground.

[Nadlen]

In back garden planted some tumbling toms in upside down planters,hope they will do well and wont get frozen ( is it safe now or still risk of frost??? ).
Planning to plant out patty pans and courgetts tonight or tomorrow ( again,is it ok? )

[mumofstig]

are you sure you are frost free now?
Any hint of frost and they'll be goners

[Nadlen]

No,I'm not...thats why I'm asking.  :blink: According to my notes last year we had frost
between 1st - 3d of May.

[Paul Plots]

This exceptionally warm dry spell does not necessarily mean we have seen the last of the year's frosts even down here in the sunny south or in the warmer cities. Although it looks unlikely the weather can fool us all. A sudden dip and one over-night frost could lead to great expectations being dashed.

Take care with planting out tender things unless you have either back-ups to replace them with or excellent frost protection to hand.
 

[totalnovice]

today i built sand castles with my son, put up the bean canes, showed littly the onions and garlic (he was very impressed) and tried to disuade him from eating the very green and very hard tiny just set strawberries.....
I also peered very hard at the 5 rows of parsnips I should have and realised that i have only 2 or 3 seedlings. I hate parsnips  and they hate me. Love to eat them though.

[grendel]

spent all afternoon in the garden, tomatoes were planted up nder coke bottle cloches, stuff is ready to be transplanted to the plot tomorrow.
Grendel

[aqua]

water the beans . watched my husband build the compost bin.  planted my strawberry roots. no much I have a streaming cold 

[Kimberley04]

Absoloutely loving going to the plot at the moment, and soaking up all the glorious weather.

Dug over a patch of clay that I've not touched so far all year, and tomorrow I'm going to introduce a bit of sand to help soften it up a bit.

Watered everything, and then came home and sowed squashes, courgettes, mange tout, sweetcorn and some indoor and outdoor cucumbers.

[mumofstig]

Tied the 2nd line of twine on the snap peas, watered the parsnip seedlings and the one raspberry and one strawberry that are struggling after transplanting earlier in the year.
Filled the water butt up from the hosepipe, have to keep it topped up form now on, incase they suddenly announce a hosepipe ban
Tried to earth up the potatoes a bit more, but the soil is in great clumps like concrete so it's not worked very well :blink:
In the greenhouse I potted up some more seedlings and watered everything that needed it, including the cat who didn't, but she got splattered anyway..oops!
Put netting over the peas in the garden cos the sparrows are pecking them to pieces

[lizzie1982]

Yesterday I went to the allotment and made 3 paths from weed membrane and bark chippings- they run down the sides of my raised pallet beds.
My sister helped me to dig a trench around my peas and beans and put bricks in the trench (2 bricks high)
We also weeded and weeded and weeded- so much mares tail on my allotment at the moment
All my plants got a good drenching with the hose pipe, and the kids dug a hole in an unused bed to make a wildlife pond- although they have dug in the wrong place-so i filled it in when they went home!

[grendel]

popped up to the plot this morning to visit the plot shop, bought 12m of 7m wide netting (£27.60) and planted a tray of cherokee beans. watered and weeded by hand and then came home.
Grendel