down at the allotment and in the garden what are you up to

[Thomzo]

planted bean plants which a nice man gave me.

He wasn't a giant was he?

[red]

planted out some of my sweetcorn plants - got depressed about my pea plants being eaten alive, planted some more spring onions modules out, brought my nasturtium hanging baskets out to hang up... realised we live at a new house and no hangy things... spent some time knocking aphids of my chili plants - which are on the kitchen windowsill.. blummin things...

[Cornelian]

A few days ago I sowed my largest vegetable bed for a winter crop of peas and beans for a green manure crop (old seeds). Then yesterday I noticed the darn birds having a feast in the bed. I'm betting I am not going to get a green manure crop this winter now. LOL I do have some clover seeds, though so may sow those.

Still, it is worth it for the bird life.

[yugogypsy]

We've had a planting good week, feed beets for the donkey,parsnips,cabbages,collards,strawberries,spring onions,peas,beans and radishes.

And a few flowers, peony, lily of the valley and a bleeding heart.

Today we planted tomato seeds indoors and are going to do the eggplants a bit later this eve.

Transplanted my basil, Rick dug a new bed for the zucchini and cucumbers
and we have to turn and manure a tomato bed and fence it in.

I got more wire today and we've only got about 2 places left to fence now and we're done

Lois

[mithril]

Managed to break the sledge hammer putting posts into the ground yesterday to fence off the lottie to keep the darned rabbits out! Still got most of the way across the bottom done now and there are the first signs of my first direct seeds coming through!
Went to the diy store this am to get a new slegde hammer as it was a borrowed one and couldn't just replace the haft!
This gardening malarkey is getting expensive
Oh well, back at it tomorrow when I shall plant out my first lot of greenhouse seedlings and carry on with the new plot!! (Got my second plot last week which is right next to my present one and that's where we'll be putting the chickens when we get them! Not a glutton for punishment am i! )
mithril.

[yugogypsy]

Yes, gardening is expensive. I have bought $300 worth of wire in the last week.

Plus I've had to replace tools that walked away with former roomates.

I own this house, so all the repairs etc are my responsibility And in the garden this coming week we are planting beets and carrots and potatoes.

We've planted seeds for tomatoes, in the house, and next is eggplants

Lois

[red]

planted out some calabrese, more sweetcorn, and finally got my tomatoes in in the gh - complete with whitefly. ack!
harvested some radishes - making room for the parsnips sown in same row

[Christine]

So exciting, isn't it?
Harvesting salad leaves from the compost-filled bath (works a treat to manage slugs and is covered with an old sheet of polycarbon stuff to make a cold frame). Courgettes that I sowed indoors on 23 February(yes, yes, I know - just couldn't wait!) are now variously out in the open at each end of the manure-filled bean trench, under fleece in a vege row, still in a bath. The ones in the bath are definitely happiest and I should be cutting my very first courgette in next couple of days (barring a late cold snap, of course) Joy!
All pak choi eaten to the nubbin by ?slugs or ?mice. Under netting so only the birds are not under suspicion. Started more in the GH.
Spent Friday (got day off to make a really long weekend) and Saturday building a shed. Let's be honest, a shack - not a level or parallel line in the place!

[Annpan]

Tried to cut some of the unwieldy grass... and got fed up, I'll give it a few days and go back to it.

Last night I dug a 1 x 1m veg patch and started work on a second 1x1m patch, I think I am probably a little late in the season but I have some lettuce, peas, potatoes and onions so I thought I might as well plant them and see.

Found a gravel/ stoney path under one of the planned beds so was trying to dig them out as I went along... I'll use them later when I decide where I want a path.

I get the odd hour to work in the garden (1/3 acre) which has been totally abandoned so I don't get alot done but considering that I have only been here for 5 weeks thats not too bad going. Also I am just starting out and have never dug a veg patch in my life. Hopefully I can get a babysitter a few days a week and get stuck in abit (although I also have a house to renovate ) - Feeling proud of myself , even though it is nothing compared with what you guys are doing

[the.fee.fairy]

sowed runner beans (i am well aware that a lot of people have already got plants growing - but the packet said May!!).

I have GOT to get round to planting out the sweetcorn.
I think the 'random sprouted stuff' was a disaster - there doesn't seem to be much 'random growing stuff' so i'll dig that bit over and put sweetcorn and squash in there instead.

I've also got to get round to stringing the rest of the fences/wiring then for the dquash to climb up later on.

[Christine]

Last night I discovered that I can do a rain dance and make it really p**s down! All it requires is to spend an hour or so watering the allotment and filling water butts...

Improved matters by standing in GH - avoiding drips from ill-fitting roof panels- planting seeds ordered from Real Seeds website (recommended somewhere on here). don't care if it is late - everything more-or-less caught up last year - but why don't you plant turnips in May? Flummoxed by instructions on packet that you have to avoid this month. Looked it up in book and no mention there!

[pskipper]

I think turnips planted in may are more likely to bolt. Might be wrong but I'm waiting until june to plant mine just in case.

[the.fee.fairy]

I got a splinter!! *wails pathetically*

I was sowing the runner beans yesterday (just in time - it rained a couple of hours later!) and this twig flew out of the ground a hit my finger - there was a massive splinter in it. But i got it out, and i've got a hole in my finger now that really really hurts!

I never realised gardening was this dangerous!!

[Cassiepod]

Pulled some thistle and nettles out of the 'lawn' and started clearing the stony bed that will be my herb patch (that turns out to be a fallen down wall).

Not much but it's a start and I fetl quite produ when I walked out this morning

[Millymollymandy]

Planted out my melons but after last night's wind they look rather trashed.