What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[Penellype]

Today's job, while waiting for BT to arrive is to move the hotbin and level the paving slab underneath it, which has been undermined by excavations - I suspect rats

[Penellype]

Managed to move the hotbin and did my best to fill in the holes with stones and gravel. I doubt it will be enough, but there are traps laid and hopefully the disturbance will persuade the residents to move house! Also potted up mizuna seedlings.

Weekend jobs (weather permitting)

At my friend's
Remove dead pepper plants in greenhouse
Weeding

At allotment
Weeding
General tidy up
Harvest parsnips if reachable (flooded), check PSB

At home
Update next year's sowing and planting plan
General tidy up
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Remove dead pepper plants in greenhouse - no
Weeding - no

At allotment
Weeding - no, flooded
General tidy up - no
Harvest parsnips if reachable (flooded), check PSB - no

At home
Update next year's sowing and planting plan - done some
General tidy up - no
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots - done

Monday jobs
Garden photos (1st of month)
Continue with sowing and planting plan
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Garden photos (1st of month) - done
Continue with sowing and planting plan - done some
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves - done

Today looks impossibly wet - the garden is under water again after overnight rain with more forecast later today, I dare not walk anywhere except on the paths, and the allotment is best left alone.

[Penellype]

Yesterday I spent some time working out which buckets and compost I am going to use for things like carrots and potatoes at home. This is more complicated than it sounds because some of the compost that has grown carrots in usually has vine weevils in it and needs resting and treating with nematodes, and some of the buckets don't have holes in the bottom (just around the sides at the bottom) which makes them unsuitable for standing on self watering trays. Some of the compost is several years old and needs spreading on the garden or allotment to make room for fresh compost for potatoes. There is therefore usually a good deal of compost shuffling to plan in order to avoid using compost that grew the same thing last year or the wrong type of bucket.

Wednesday jobs
Check flood level at allotment
Sow microgreens
Harvest carrots, check PSB

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Check flood level at allotment - done, higher than ever
Sow microgreens - done
Harvest carrots, check PSB - done

Also put the plastic cover on the blowaway in the greenhouse in preparation for colder weather later in the week.

Thursday jobs
Put some early potatoes to chit for growing in greenhouse
Check allotment
Tidy garage
Harvest carrots

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Thursday jobs
Put some early potatoes to chit for growing in greenhouse - done
Check allotment - done, water level going down slowly
Tidy garage - no
Harvest carrots - no

Also did a little weeding on the drier parts of the allotment.

No gardening time today.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs (flooding permitting)

At my friend's
Remove dead pepper plants from greenhouse
Weeding

At allotment
Weeding
General tidy up
Harvest parsnip, check PSB

At home
Tidy garage
Weeding
Take net off carrot cage in case of snow
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Remove dead pepper plants from greenhouse - done
Weeding - done some

At allotment
Weeding - done some
General tidy up - no
Harvest parsnip, check PSB - harvested a leek instead of parsnip, PSB almost ready

Also moved some of the sprouting pieces of rhubarb root under the black dalek in the hope that they might produce something edible and trimmed back the nettles in the hedge.

At home
Tidy garage - no
Weeding - no
Take net off carrot cage in case of snow - no
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots - done

Monday jobs
Weeding
General tidy up including garage
Take net off carrot cage
Harvest parsnip, carrots

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Weeding - no
General tidy up including garage - no
Take net off carrot cage - no
Harvest parsnip, carrots - done

Tuesday jobs
Take net off carrot cage
Cover greenhouse carrots with bubble wrap (frost forecast)
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Take net off carrot cage - no
Cover greenhouse carrots with bubble wrap (frost forecast) - done
Harvest carrots - done

Drizzle pretty much all day today so nothing got done, and no gardening time tomorrow.

[nick the grief]

Took the dog for his walk ... today he discovered the canal is wet straight thru the ice and managed to get himself out in a cloud of steam and a spray of water .

Just about finished the ideas for the back garden ... its changed over the months but just about tied it down. Now I just need to clear the greenhouse out and set up my heated bench ready for sowing seeds.

got to take Mrs G to the hospital for an endoscopy ... so thats tomorrow taken care of

[Penellype]

Hoping that the grass is now ok to walk on, so...

Friday jobs
Remove dead crocosmia leaves
Deadheading
Weeding
Remove net from carrot cage
Harvest lettuce, carrots

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Remove dead crocosmia leaves - done
Deadheading - done
Weeding - done some
Remove net from carrot cage - done
Harvest lettuce, carrots - done

Also tidied up a bit at the allotment.

Today was a write off as I had men digging a drain in the back garden, which will hopefully remove some of the water next time we have a deluge.

Sunday jobs

At my friend's
Weeding

At allotment
Weeding
Harvest leek, check PSB

At home
Attempt to clear up muddy mess left by men
Move another bucket of carrots to garage
Go to garden centre and buy onion sets if available
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Sunday jobs

At my friend's
Weeding - no, frozen

At allotment
Weeding - no
Harvest leek, check PSB - done

At home
Attempt to clear up muddy mess left by men - no
Move another bucket of carrots to garage - done
Go to garden centre and buy onion sets if available - went but very few onion sets and no Sturon so will have to try elsewhere
Harvest carrots - done

Tomorrow Openreach are coming for the 3rd time since Christmas to try to sort a fault on my broadband. They require a 5 hour slot, so depending on what time they turn up I may or may not have any gardening time. It may be too cold anyway.

Monday jobs
Clear up mess left by men
Bring pots of compost in to warm for peppers
Weeding if possible
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots