2022 - What I did today
Proserpina Offline
South Yorkshire
#831
I decide the garden needed decorating, so I have wallpapered and hung curtains. And then I have covered it all in lots of compost and a bit of manure. It was hard work lugging all those bags up the steps, so I have left the job incomplete for today. It all needs raking over and probably a few more bags of compost/manure adding and then I can get on with planting.
Formerly self-contained, but expanding my gardening horizons beyond pots!
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SarrissUK Offline
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#832
(04-06-2022, 08:52 PM)Proserpina Wrote: I decide the garden needed decorating, so I have wallpapered and hung curtains. And then I have covered it all in lots of compost and a bit of manure. It was hard work lugging all those bags up the steps, so I have left the job incomplete for today. It all needs raking over and probably a few more bags of compost/manure adding and then I can get on with planting.

I'm sorry, you wallpapered the garden??
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Proserpina Offline
South Yorkshire
#833
(04-06-2022, 10:56 PM)SarrissUK Wrote:
(04-06-2022, 08:52 PM)Proserpina Wrote: I decide the garden needed decorating, so I have wallpapered and hung curtains. And then I have covered it all in lots of compost and a bit of manure. It was hard work lugging all those bags up the steps, so I have left the job incomplete for today. It all needs raking over and probably a few more bags of compost/manure adding and then I can get on with planting.

I'm sorry, you wallpapered the garden??
Well, a few feet of it anyway. I'm not sure if the wallpaper or the curtains are going to be the better weed suppression in the end, but I have just used what I had available!
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SarrissUK Offline
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#834
(04-06-2022, 11:15 PM)Proserpina Wrote: Well, a few feet of it anyway. I'm not sure if the wallpaper or the curtains are going to be the better weed suppression in the end, but I have just used what I had available!

Ah, you're setting up new beds - got ya Smile

I've potted on everything that needed a bigger space to live, whilst it was drizzling slightly outside. I've rejigged the small greenhouse and thrown all the stuff that can be outside onto the lawn for now.

No word from the horse muck lady, so I'm going to chill inside for a bit and warm up.
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JJB Offline
Moonraker
#835
Set out some bedding. Planted outdoor tomatoes in the vain hope they might escape the blight, it was either that or compost them. Started a comfrey tea bucket. Fed gh toms. Now a gentle rain has started, not enough to be much use but better than nothing. I had to come in to get dinner anyway so it all fitted in.
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
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Mark_Riga Offline
Member from Cheshire
#836
Well I looked through my packets of seeds and decided to order some seeds with a long shelf life mainly from Premierseeds. They seem to be really cheep even without any offers. I might even be tempted to donate some to the seed swap for bought seed:

Squash - Butternut Waltham 90 £0.99
1 Squash - Uchiki Kuri - 40 £1.09
1 Beetroot Detroit Dark Red 1300 £0.99
1 Onion Yellow Sweet Spanish (Utah) - 1500 £0.99
1 Onion - Sturon organic - 750 £0.99
1 VEGETABLE ENDIVE ROMANESCA - 10 gm £1.09
1 White Plastic Labels 4 Inch - 4 Inch - 100 £2.14
Shipping: £0.89
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doublyjonah Offline
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#837
We did so much at the allotment this weekend. Hurrah hurrah. Planted out everything that really needs to be out there including pumpkins, corn, cucumbers, beans, peas, chard, sunflowers, cosmos and probably other things in forgetting. Cleared some areas to plant in that we hadn't gotten to use last year when I was pregnant and not feeling great. Did some weeding and some clearing of big aggressive things that feel like a separate category than ordinary weeds. Direct sowed a few things! Supports were built! Old tools uncovered in the overgrowth!

I enjoyed my long weekend.
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Veggie Offline
Super Pest Controller
#838
Did absolutely nothing outdoors today. The rain this afternoon has turned the road outside into a stream & filled the waterbutts to overflowing. At least I don't have to worry about watering the courgettes and beans that have recently been planted.
The Moneyless Chicken says:- 
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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PyreneesPlot Offline
Mountain Dweller
#839
Pottered - deadheaded roses, weeded the strawberries, weeded beetroot, sorted out some spare aubergines and pumpkin for my neighbour, cut or turned in the trailing lengths of rose and brambles in the boundary hedges, started clearing vast amounts of love in the mist leaving just a few to set seed.
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
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Bren Offline
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#840
Rained most of the day so all i did was to feed my GH toms.
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