What I Did Today Archive 2011

[rustylady]

Lifted the row of Nadine potatoes - excellent yield and no scab . Finally managed to get the leeks planted out. Lifted the freebie radishes - mahoosive things. I'm sure the packet said 6 inches long but I got several that were 10 inches.

[Loudbarker1]

Over the weeke nd I:

mowed the lawn and trimmed hedges
picked cucmber, tomatos, rasberries, courgettes, frenchbeans
watered tomatos, cucumber, soft fruit in pots;
removed oldest french beans to clear space to plat overwintering salads (lettuce, corn salad, orientals) and perpetual spinage.

[VirginVegGrower]

Went foraging for blackberries yesterday and have made blackberry vodka...mmmmm! Went to Wilkos today and bought winemaking paraphernalia as we also foraged elderberries from Nanny's garden. Made a huge pan of plum and cardamom jelly this morning for straining overnight. Cut haulms of maincrops as all ready. Harvest in a couple of weeks. Mr VVG been to Ryton to get me green manure seed and tomato feed.

[susieq100]

Yesterday - transplanted some summer fruiting raspberries that Site Secretary was clearing from his plot. Barrowed a lot of FYM and perspired a lot!

[Thelma Sanders]

found my seedlings washed away by the deluge so resowed winter hardy spring onions, purple milan and golden ball turnips, 2 rows autumn King carrots and in modules this time some pak choi and red russian kale.
Was given 6 module grown brussel sprout plants so they've gone in as well. May be a bit late but they've got 2 chances

[rustylady]

Managed to get to the lottie. Did some MORE weeding. Excavated the leeks from where some friendly cat had buried them. Cut 4 courgettes, picked some beans (not many - very poor this year). Dug some volunteer spuds up, no idea what variety. Kale is growing well, but covered in whitefly and ladybirds. I hope ladybirds eat whitefly.

[Two_Sheds]

- spread the contents of school dalek into a raised bed
- fed the pumpkin with comfrey
- planted out a few dozen (very late) annuals

[Florence Fennel]

My kale's been covered in white fly too. Planted some caulies and cabbages that arrived today to replace the ones I had grown from seed for the slugs and snails. I've put them in troughs to grow on a bit and have smeared loads of petroleum jelly round the edges of the troughs. I'm determined to get these to a decent size before they go in the ground.

[binley100]

Today I discovered I have a cauli ......small as yet but it is only igloo. This is remarkable cos they all got noshed when first planted out . I found it when I uncovered the brassica bed and braved the clouds of whitefly to weed it.

[Mulchkin]

Sowed my green manure. We've only had a veg patch since the start of the year, so it's the first time I've ever used it (actually I only heard about it for the first time a few weeks ago!!). Hope it grows well and keeps the weeds down.

I'm 'project managing' my OH relaying the paving slabs that edge our veg patch tomorrow. Which mainly involves sitting in a deckchair with a cup of tea, giving directions and annoying him with criticism

[rustylady]

Potted up 5 jars of spicy plum chutney.

[perkin]

Sieved some homemade compost, used it to top up the potato bags. Picked fat caterpillars off cabbage seedlings and fed them to the chickens. Picked a few blueberries and red chillies.

[Two_Sheds]

- the mooli is growing huge already, so I sowed some more where the cabbages have come out
- sowed a few trays of Senshyu (too late really)
- had a good weed AGAIN, lots of grasses, chickweed and petit spurge, not so much groundsel now
- sprayed the school's rampant bindweed, as pulling it out isn't an option, nor is mulching
- fed the tomatoes & chillies their comfrey tea: they're ripening up fast now
- pulled out the horsetail by hand, it's not so bad now
- gave the green manure (alfalfa) another cut and left it on the soil as a mulch for the worms to pull down: it's already improving the soil, shading it and reducing the amount of weeds
- pulled up my 'white' glads which turned out to be yellow & replanted at school
- planted out a few trays of alyssum & aquilegia at school
- picked, stripped & froze the first pound of elderberries (for port)
- pulled off most of the bean & squash foliage, to ripen the fruits
- took a dozen rose cuttings & two dozen each of fuchsias & pelargoniums
- shelled & packeted lots of beans & peas for next year's sowings
- dug up and divided my favourite blue aquilegia because its seeds don't appear to be viable
- cut and edged the lawn, probably last cut of the year
- ditto for comfrey

[reetnproper]

Trimmed all the dead/dying foliage off my Winter Squash and Courgette plants;
Trimmed the dead and dying foliage off my greenhouse cucumbers and took off vines without any fruit growing to allow remaining cukes to get good light and ventialtion;
Trimmed dead and dying foliage off indoor tomatoes;
Gave fruiting pumpkins a large drink of water;
Cleared spent salad and pepper plants from the greenhouse; and
Picked and threaded another half dozen Cayennes and hung with others to dry out.

About to start tea and then will:

Feed all the tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins and squashes;
Sit down with a nice, cold glass of Carlsberg

Reet
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[Thelma Sanders]

weeded, watered seedlings, pumpkins and celeriac. Removed lots of mildewed leaves from the pumpkins.
Watered in greenhouses and picked more toms.