What have you done on the plot today?

[spindrift]

Hairy bittercress everywhere, seeded all over any bare soil. Millions of them.

[T42]

You could probably flog them to a health-food shop.

[ElyDave]

Mowing
Trellising
Moving Bonsai out of the greenhouse
Started creation of the new herb patch

[Ham]

Today? too much digging 

I cut back effing bamboo.

Anyone have any suggestions for dealing with the stuff? Cutting it off at ground level results in little razor sharp stubs all over the bed.
I was wondering about slates dug in vertically to stop it spreading.

When I removed ours a while back, I resorted to a kango....

This is the stuff you need - you dig it in before you plant, leaving the edge an inch or so proud,  and keep an eye out for the little bugger climbing over the top

[SteveC]

MrsC decreed that the patio was a mess and needed dealing with.
So we now have about a dozen fewer pots on it, including the ones which did have the ivies, a rather tatty sage and an even tattier rosemary. I will need to drive to the tip at some point as there's no way we can get all of that into the compost heap.

[Riggers]

As I said earlier, not all the garlic I put in has risen (fair enough) but did notice that the ground around the garlic seems to have fewer weeds than other areas of the lotty. The area where the garlic grew last year is similarly denuded of weeds, so assume the garlic acts as a weed inhibitor.

[spindrift]

Cleaned the green algae off the greenhouse, planted 3 white lupins and about 100 anemones after they'd soaked overnight. My neighbour has got a fantastic display of anemones in a window box that get less than 2 hours sun a day. She planted hers in November, mine should be out June. Painted the garden furniture, got the seed trays ready. 

[SteveC]

Must have done loads, I'm knackered.
Lots of weeding, emptying and refilling one of the ponds, pruning one of the holly trees, doesn't seem a lot when written down but it has taken most of the day.

[Basil]

Mowed the lawn (AGAIN!).  Cut back all the dead stuff in the borders.  Continued to de bramble the brambly area.  A little light weeding. 
My weeding philosophy is little and often, so that it doesn't feel like a chore.

[SteveC]

I mowed the back lawn on Friday evening. I have not mowed the front one as I assumed, wrongly, that it wouldn't need cutting again so soon.
I'd like to get the weeding to 'a little and often' but at the moment it's 'a lot and all the time'.

[Bledlow]

After getting home from a bike ride, I dug out some compost from the ready bin & plonked it where I'm going to plant this year's cucumbers. Watered where I've planted seeds as it was looking a bit dry.

[matthew]

planted 10 raspberry canes.

Unfortunately I have missed the window to plant the red currents and gooseberries I wanted to after the nursery failed to deliver the plants and refunded me without communication.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Today? too much digging 

I cut back effing bamboo.

Anyone have any suggestions for dealing with the stuff? Cutting it off at ground level results in little razor sharp stubs all over the bed.
I was wondering about slates dug in vertically to stop it spreading.

When I removed ours a while back, I resorted to a kango....

This is the stuff you need - you dig it in before you plant, leaving the edge an inch or so proud,  and keep an eye out for the little bugger climbing over the top

Looks identical to the stuff you use for flashing at the edge of a roof. I wonder if it is the same stuff, rebadged and sold for twice the price?

[matthew]

Replaced 3 fence posts, two had rotted with one having failed in the high winds a few weeks back. I was away and the neighbours only told me two weeks ago.

I managed to snap the third whilst trying to get the panel back in when the first post wasn't quite right.

[Ham]

Today? too much digging 

I cut back effing bamboo.

Anyone have any suggestions for dealing with the stuff? Cutting it off at ground level results in little razor sharp stubs all over the bed.
I was wondering about slates dug in vertically to stop it spreading.

When I removed ours a while back, I resorted to a kango....

This is the stuff you need - you dig it in before you plant, leaving the edge an inch or so proud,  and keep an eye out for the little bugger climbing over the top

Looks identical to the stuff you use for flashing at the edge of a roof. I wonder if it is the same stuff, rebadged and sold for twice the price?

Not impossible, it's much thicker/stiffer than any flashband, but there may be a type of pvc flashing I haven't seen.

[ElyDave]

Hacked back some very old lavenders.  Found that they had plenty of growth at the base so moved them to where I want lavenders.  Gave them a good soak and fingers crossed they'll take
Burned a load of stuff in the incinerator, kippered myself and singed the fence in the process 

The old lavender patch will become a new herb patch.

Lawn mowing today, some direct sowing of early lettuces as well I think, and maybe a row of chard

[HeltorChasca]

Hacked back some very old lavenders.  Found that they had plenty of growth at the base so moved them to where I want lavenders.  Gave them a good soak and fingers crossed they'll take
Burned a load of stuff in the incinerator, kippered myself and singed the fence in the process 

The old lavender patch will become a new herb patch.

Lawn mowing today, some direct sowing of early lettuces as well I think, and maybe a row of chard

Good luck with the lavender. Interesting plant. It puts down an essential oil where it has been growing and effectively poisons the soil around it so other plants can't compete. It's worthwhile replacing with other 'sterile' topsoil if you can. As you will be putting herbs in there isn't too much point in feeding the soil with compost or anything.

I need to get myself a bonfire tan. It's a good look.

[spindrift]

Took the lid of the barrel that feeds the pond and found a foot of stinking black sycamore sludge that I bucketed out and tipped on the compost heap. The pond needs draining cos I bet there's the same at the bottom of that but it's alive with tadpoles at the moment and they're doing a pretty good job of cleaning round the edge.

[spindrift]

If you poke the bottom of the pond with a stick bubbles come up and are disagreeable.

[SteveC]

We've turned the pump/stream/waterfall back on in the pond.
Both lawns have been mown.
I've done more weeding.
I need to water things before dark, but I'm having a rest by making bread instead.
(I would have done more but I've been out in the car three times to get 'emergency' supplies of one sort or another as well.

[David Martin]

Cleared out the greenhouse. Replaced the missing pane of glass. Planted out 5 tomato plants and one pepper in growbags,  and a dozen strawberries in two window boxes. SWMBO carried on the good work getting seed sown (courgettes etc.) and potatoes chitting.
Shredded the remaining dry stuff including the very prickly rose stems.

[Legs]

Today? too much digging 

I cut back effing bamboo.

Anyone have any suggestions for dealing with the stuff? Cutting it off at ground level results in little razor sharp stubs all over the bed.
I was wondering about slates dug in vertically to stop it spreading.

When I removed ours a while back, I resorted to a kango....

This is the stuff you need - you dig it in before you plant, leaving the edge an inch or so proud,  and keep an eye out for the little bugger climbing over the top

Looks identical to the stuff you use for flashing at the edge of a roof. I wonder if it is the same stuff, rebadged and sold for twice the price?

Not impossible, it's much thicker/stiffer than any flashband, but there may be a type of pvc flashing I haven't seen.

See also; raspberries coming up all over our fruit patch - all through the gooseberries, currants and blueberry bushes...

[spindrift]

There's a border I haven't touched for years apart from cutting a giant rosemary back and the wild garlic has gone mad, dense clumps of it that make your hands smell.

[ElyDave]

Having been away this week, I have Instructed youngest and swmbo to open/close greenhouse an water seedlings as required.

[ElyDave]

Youngest helped me today, canes for beans, posts and net for peas, planted out and protected from late frosts with a length of fleece pegged to the uprights and held down with bricks at ground level.  They were just getting too big for the greenhouse.

She then helped me create a hawthorn bonsai group