What I did today 2020

[peanut]

Fed everything in the greenhouse.
Finally planted all my leeks in with the brassicas.
Planted out my final lots of Runners, Climbing beans and a pretty pink climbing sugarsnap pea.
Sowed more beetroots, spring onions, chard and parsnips.
Been a really good gardening weekend

[Bren In Pots]

Fed my courgettes, potatoes, GH toms and cucs with comfrey early on this morning. Will do more gardening later on.in the day.

[Right Shed Fred]

Unbelievably, was down the allotment again today...

Tried again to make the cucumbers climb.

Used liquid tomato feed on the squash, and thought I might as well do it for the tomatoes and cukes too while I'm at it.

Hauled another barrow of manure down from the communal pile to finally rot down in the plot. It looks very nearly finished, might apply some direct to the blackberries and raspberries which need the moisture retention while ripening the fruit.

Put out 4 diluted cider vinegar + washing up liquid traps for the spotted wing drosophila which seem to be endemic in the blackberries. First year I'm doing this before the fruit are actually ripe, so have high hopes for it working well this time...

Rejoiced that yesterday's slug hunt paid off - finally no trails on the kale today.

[peanut]

Today I finally got my brassicas planted in their new bed. I've got kale, red and green sprouts and PSB in with more PSB and spring cabbages still to do. All will be interplanted with leeks and some tagetes.

[Right Shed Fred]

Piled up barrows of manure to let the worms do their thing so i can hopefully spread this on the beds in autumn.

Harvested a lovely looking yellow courgette.

Took the sprouty bits off the tomato plants that should have them taken off. Was a bit weirded out by the bushy tomatoes which shouldn't have the sprouty bits removed.

Tried to make the cucumbers climb up the tower I made for them.

Collected a worrying number of slugs and snails from the kale bed.

[Jungle Jane]

There’s small runner beans on the celebration plant,I’ve just been squirting the aphids off with garlic water/ecover wash up liquid,our cat must like the smell he was having a long smell of it

[ameno]

Dug over and weeded the patch were I was growing broad beans, then sowed some carrots and beetroot.

[Nicos]

Final potting on of 19 outdoor tomatoes. All nicely lined up against our south facing granite wall (thinking overnight warmth being given off)
As they are pineapple tomatoes and could grow 8ft high I thought they would be safer fastened against the wall too with all the winds we've been having

[ameno]

Pulled out all the broadbean plants and chopped them into the compost bin.
Took a lot longer than I expected to chop them up as they stems were so tough and my allotment secateurs are rubbish. Also completely ruined my right hand - it's just a mess of blisters now from forcing the secateurs through tough stems.

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I fed the plants with seaweed & tied two of the bean teepees back up I don’t know how the wind unties them,I’ve pinched the tips on some of them,some haven’t reached the top yet,lots of ants & aphids on everything growing I think. I went round mums today,we’ve got some good rainy weather forecast for a few days so I put the grass seed down on the front lawn,did a bit of weeding,pruning & fed the roses,it’s raining now that’s good

[ameno]

Planted out the guttering of mangetout I sowed last month.

[ameno]

Potted on my purple sprouting broccoli plants, and made some collars for the pots out of an old pair of jeans (my purple sprouting plants got cabbage fly last year whilst still in the pots, and died before I planted them out. Don't want that happening again).

[ameno]

Pollinated some more melons.
Mulched more of my beans with manure.

[bikermike]

I dug up some potatoes (Sharpes Express look good, Charlotte very disappointing). Planted some butternut squash plants in the gap in the bed. Picked some courgettes.
Planted some peas and mangetoute plants and some extra seeds in a cleared bed.
Tied up my tomatoes (which are starting to fruit)

In the greenhouse, gave my tomatoes a haircut - armpits and cut back the foliage a bit

[ameno]

Pollinated three squashes and several melons.
Tied in my tomatoes.