What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Rearrange plants under lights to accommodate germinating beetroot - done
Check chitting seeds and pot up any showing roots - done
Sow spinach in hotbed - done plus some lettuce
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, pea shoots, parsnip, carrots - done

Also planted 2 buckets of Lady C potatoes under a cloche that now gets some sun as the chits were getting too long. I am prepared to lose these as I have enough remaining seed potatoes for my usual crop.

Wednesday jobs
Check chitting seeds and pot up any showing roots
Weeding
General tidy up
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Check chitting seeds and pot up any showing roots - done
Weeding - done some and cleared some leaves
Harvest kohlrabi, leeks, carrots and make soup - done

Tuesday jobs
Rearrange plants under lights to accommodate germinating beetroot
Check chitting seeds and pot up any showing roots
Sow spinach in hotbed
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, pea shoots, parsnip, carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Tidy greenhouse - done some
Weeding - no

At allotment
Photos (1st of month) - done
Weeding - no

At home
Photos - done
Check greenhouse plants - done
Check chitting seeds and pot up any that have germinated - done
Weeding - no
Harvest carrots - no

Monday jobs
Check chitting seeds and pot up any showing roots
Weeding
Harvest kohlrabi, leeks, carrots and make soup

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs
Not a great deal of time this weekend, but not really a lot that needs doing.

At my friend's
Tidy greenhouse
Weeding

At allotment
Photos (1st of month)
Weeding

At home
Photos
Check greenhouse plants
Check chitting seeds and pot up any that have germinated
Weeding
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Yesterday I put some dwarf french beans to chit (old seed so they may not germinate) and harvested PSB.

Trying to motivate myself to do some general tidying up today.

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Check allotment and weed where not flooded - done, and a small handful of weeds
Sow spinach for hotbed - done
Phone garden centre and get onion sets if available - not in yet
Harvest carrots - done

Also put up the cover over the hotbed, which involved removing the existing frame and replacing it with hoops.

Not sure I will be able to do any gardening today. I am waiting to hear if I have a meeting, and even if not, it is currently -2 outside, so everywhere is likely to be frozen solid again.

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Check allotment and weed where not flooded
Sow spinach for hotbed
Phone garden centre and get onion sets if available
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Sow microgreens - done
Put 2 Shirley tomato seeds to chit (to grow indoors) - done
Weeding if possible - done a little

Also removed the rest of the beetroot as it was starting to rot - most of it was too small to do much with anyway. The allotment is flooded again after all the rain.

Unlikely to have any gardening time today and the forecast isn't great anyway.

[Penellype]

Sunday jobs
Sow half pint peas and beetroot in modules for hotbed - done, also 2 put 2 balconi tomatoes to chit for the windowsill
Sow microgreens - no
Attempt to weed any defrosted areas - no
Harvest carrots - no, but did manage to extract 3 parsnips, so things are defrosting a bit.

Monday jobs
Sow microgreens
Put 2 Shirley tomato seeds to chit (to grow indoors)
Weeding if possible

[Penellype]

Just checked round today - replaced a few nets that had been blown about and put the downpipe back on the greenhouse gutter. Allotment still frozen solid in most places, so gardening is very limited for now. Harvested a beetroot.

Sunday jobs
Sow half pint peas and beetroot in modules for hotbed
Sow microgreens
Attempt to weed any defrosted areas
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Batten down the hatches - severe gales forecast on Friday - done
Harvest salad leaves, microgreens, carrot, leek - done

Meetings this morning and it looks like this afternoon is going to be wet, so gardening unlikely.

I have no intention of attempting to do anything in the garden except check for damage tomorrow (storm Eowyn)

[Penellype]

I did manage to top up the new hotbed yesterday after breaking through a half inch thick frozen layer on top of the old hotbed. I'd hoped to harvest a parsnip as well, but the compost there had not been covered with black plastic and I couldn't break through the frozen layer. Harvested a carrot from the garage instead.

Wednesday jobs
Batten down the hatches - severe gales forecast on Friday
Harvest salad leaves, microgreens, carrot, leek

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Check allotment - done
Weeding - no
Clear leaves - no
Top up hotbed if possible - no, still frozen solid
Harvest carrots, leeks - no

Slightly warmer yesterday but it decided to rain on and off and that was enough to put me off doing much, although I put a net back over the parsnip bed as there were signs that the cat had been scratching in it.

The weather and my enthusiasm are no better today so I am giving it a break for now. There isn't much I can do until the deep frost melts anyway.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check state of garden and greenhouse - done
Weeding if possible - no

At allotment
In the unlikely event of the old hotbed defrosting, top up new hotbed with compost - no
Weeding and clear leaves where possible - no

At home
Put some pepper seeds to chit in airing cupboard - done
Weeding if possible - no
Harvest microgreens, salad leaves, lettuce, carrots - done

Busy most of Saturday and with a maximum temperature yesterday of just 0.6C it was simply too cold to do anything outside.

Monday jobs (weather and enthusiasm permitting)
Check allotment
Weeding
Clear leaves
Top up hotbed if possible
Harvest carrots, leeks

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Finish hotbed - done most*
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, microgreens, carrots - done except carrots

* I have filled the bed with horse manure but not topped it up with compost from last year's bed, for the simple reason that it is still frozen solid.
Also planted 3 seed potatoes that were absolutely desperate in a bucket in the garage.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check state of garden and greenhouse. Unlikely to be defrosted as it is colder there than here.
Weeding if possible

At allotment
In the unlikely event of the old hotbed defrosting, top up new hotbed with compost.
Weeding and clear leaves where possible

At home
Put some pepper seeds to chit in airing cupboard
Weeding if possible
Harvest microgreens, salad leaves, lettuce, carrots