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Anyone done any gardening today? Part 5

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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Thankyou @tuikowhai34 I keep trying to add spring colour bit by bit
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    Completed the 2nd new raised bed in between home schooling. Laid cardboard in the bottom (triple thickness), lined the sides with compost bags and filled it with homemade compost. I've now used all last year's compost I've been amazed how much there actually was. Forked up the new greenhouse compost base and tipped on 4 big bags of multipurpose to lightened the texture a bit then mixed it in, I have at last got use my new Wolf take and cultivator attachments I got for crimbo I'm very happy 😀😀
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    Painted the raised beds, fitted a fence across the end of the compost bins and painted it (Mrs Wilderbeast doesn't appreciate this area as much as me), cleared loads of general garden waste into the compost, finished forking over the greenhouse base and adding multipurpose compost, planted into bags my early potatoes, sowed a tray of boltardy beetroot, Lisbon spring onions and peas for shoots. Sowed 2 rows of carrots with radish added in. 
    @GWRS pictures as promised
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Wilderbeast  That does look flash!  Good job!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @tuikowhai34 Oh dear as a a hard nosed Yorkshire man I see being "flash" as a total fail 🤣🤣 Mrs Wilderbeast insisted on it being posh, I'd rather of had a plain aluminium greenhouse that was 8 ft longer and not bothered with all the black and finials. 
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Looking good @Wilderbeast
    I was going to garden,  had a list.  Unfortunately it's raining even though it wasn't forecast.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    That is some greenhouse @Wilderbeast 😁 if it keeps the wife happy then that's all to the good.
    You are ahead of me with the carrots and spring onions,  but today in the conservatory planted three types of tomatoes, lettuce, two types of cucumber and some mini sunflower seeds. My potatoes are in there still chitting. 
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    That’s a cracking set-up there @Wilderbeast

    Just organising my seeds and trying to do a plan for sowing as I will be doing a production-line from windowsill to poly-house and then mostly to pots outside. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    At least you got it right @Wilderbeast  - hardest thing for a man to do!  

    Still tired, so I am seed sorting and "filing" into sowing months with envelopes all over the table.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Very nice set up there @Wilderbeast.

    I repotted , at last,  one of the 5 new Roses I bought in 2019, into a much larger fancy pot by the front door. It's a deep pink rose which should look striking against our pale Bath stone walls. The rootball plus soil  was much heavier than expected so I've tweaked my back again. Big oohs and aah s.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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