What did you do in the garden today? (Part 2)

[gwynnethmary]

Photographed the floods.

[gwynnethmary]

[manicscousers]

Cleaned some more of the inside of the poly while ray moved the 16 new scaffold boards we bought inside, all the while freezing and looking through the fog 

[caroline7758]

Glad to see I'm not the only one doing absolutely nothing at the moment!

[cornykev]

Bugger all.     

[Plot69]

Went and had a look at our new house today. Mrs measured up for curtains, I measured up for veg.

95x49 feet, 17 square rods... Should be enough :)

[manicscousers]

December meeting today, followed by hot pot and cake, celebrating our accomplishments during the year and looking to the AGM in january, plus 15 tons of topsoil delivered and moved in 1 day, lots of hard work by lots of people 

[Poolcue]

Sent down to the allotment with man flu,harvested Swedes,Parsnips,Carrots,Turnips and Beetroot,and now suffering on the sofa.

[Obelixx]

Yesterday we moved 3 redcurrants, 4 blackcurrants and a OH's gooseberry bush to their new home in the long veggie bed against our boundary and I foxed the windbreak around the blueberries.    I also took 12 optimisitc hardwood cuttings of blackcurrants to grow on nad give away if they take.

Today I was going to tidy up the other veggie beds but it has snowed overnight so all I'll be doing is picking cavolo nero and purple sprouting for dinner later on.

[cornykev]

Dug up the last of my spuds (Cara) and harvested some beetroot and took them home with some stored onions
Took down netting and winter dug , only about 30% to go.     

[Froglegs]

Bugga all, rain stopped play in Notts.

[carolinej]

Got torn calf muscle so zilch

I did manage to prop myself up by the sink and get the bird feeders washed out and filled. 

[macmac]

Planted out some very sorry looking wallflowers (late I know)
The OH managed to dig over a bed and his back held up.
Picked a nice bunch of herbs for a lottie neighbour the fragrance was wonderful 

[pierre]

Broke the ice over my flooded garden so I could get to the clucks and feed them.Did notice that my broad beans had come up in the unheated greenhouse.

[winecap]

Taking advantage of the fact that the ground was no longer frozen, I lifted my oca and moved the chrysanthemum stools into the greenhouse. That's 2x10 colours of chrysanthemums and 3 colours of oca. I then climbed a tree with muddy boots to saw off a branch which had broken in the wind. Managed to live to tell the tale.

[Kleftiwallah]

I did a little more work on the rigid plastic liner of the propagation table in the greenhouse.  Tired of the black plastic seemingly to puncture itself each year.  Such a pain to off load about a ton of gritsand!

Filled it with water to test the sealant round the edges.  (looks god as at 18:00 hrs).

Cheers,   Tony.

[Digeroo]

Just been to plant a new currant bush - pink.   Dug up some parnsnips, and swapped some for a celariac.  Also picked a sprout tree, and a cabbage.   My anti theft measures seem to be working.   Put the netting back over the sprouts not sure why it keeps coming off.   Netted the onions:  something is after them.  Not sure if it is deer, rabbit or pheasant.   Pheasant is nibbling the green manure mustard.  Hedgehog has been on his rounds does not seem to eat slug eggs.   Deer are eating leaves of the strawberries.   Put another bucket of leaves onto the fruit patch.   Dug up a large potato for lunch.  Put plastic bottles over remaining broccoli plants - Zen, was told they would produce in December which now seems highly unlikely the plants are smaller than when I bought them three months ago.   If they produce anything at all it will be amazing.   

[carolinej]

Broke the ice over my flooded garden

So you are still flooded? Whereabouts are you?

[galina]

Broke the ice over my flooded garden

So you are still flooded? Whereabouts are you?

Still pretty wet here too, if it wasn't for the solid frost, all would be very squelchy.

Today, just a quick dash to fetch rocket and cress and a few carrots.  The cress looks a bit sorry, but it was just weighed down by freezing fog/ice on the leaves, indoors it perked up instantly.  Amazing what rocket and cress can put up with.  They are not even cloched and it was -6.7 this morning.

[carolinej]

-6.7 this morning.

Brrrr!

[tricia]

With the help of a friend managed to get plastic cover over my peach tree to keep it dry over the winter. Just in time too - according to the weather forecast we are in for some heavy rain tonight and tomorrow.

Tricia