What I did today 2021

[ameno]

Planted out my kale plants (finally) and netted them.
Collected a load of stuff to fill my allotment compost bin.

[Mr Bones]

^^^ Hope everyone's OK Burnie ^^

Gardening in my sandals yesterday, got stung between the toes by a bee... felt sorry for the bee.

[burnie]

Well a long story, but we are isolating, wee Grandson has covid and we have been in contact, we have all tested negative so lots of gardening going on, I don't think my garden has ever been so well groomed lol.

[bramble]

Spent the afternoon in the garden deadheading and weeding
Tied up,more 9f my tomatoes and took some of the bottom leaves off.
No rain but very warm.
Have a good evening all.

[bramble]

Cut down the alderman peas that had finished after a really good harvest. Picked blackcurrants and gooseberries.
Sowed more radishes.
Dug some Nicola spuds for tea and cut a lettuce and a cucumber to go with. Will also add a few cooked peas as found a few pods lurking.
I would have harvested the first Rosella tomatoes but something, I think a mouse, has got to every one that is almost ripe first so far and bitten it half through. It hasn’t touched the other vars growing nearby. I am resorting to desperate measures and tying a plastic bag around the truss every night to deny access. A bit of a faff but I am determined to discover what it finds so irresistible about them by actually eating one myself.

Sweet savoury, I had the same problem last year with my tomatoes being bitten.
I watched and discovered the culprit was a squirrel.
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[burnie]

Cut the grass and picked a huge tub of Blackcurrants, even though the birds have been eating them, plenty to share lol. I shall pick some guzzgogs this week too, no sign of outside strawberries ripening, might be some at the end of the week, had a few of the first Alpine Strawbs, they are little taste bombs.

[Sweet savory]

Cut down the alderman peas that had finished after a really good harvest. Picked blackcurrants and gooseberries.
Sowed more radishes.
Dug some Nicola spuds for tea and cut a lettuce and a cucumber to go with. Will also add a few cooked peas as found a few pods lurking.
I would have harvested the first Rosella tomatoes but something, I think a mouse, has got to every one that is almost ripe first so far and bitten it half through. It hasn’t touched the other vars growing nearby. I am resorting to desperate measures and tying a plastic bag around the truss every night to deny access. A bit of a faff but I am determined to discover what it finds so irresistible about them by actually eating one myself.

[ameno]

Pruned the grape vines, then cut up the prunings to use to make folly wine.

[annie8]

Spent all day trying to sort out the impact of being away for 10 days away. Everything seems to have grown like crazy -and not all in a good way.

[ameno]

Planted out some more dwarf french beans.
Weeded the asparagus and the new grape bed.
Did some strimming.

[ameno]

Sowed another row each of beetroot and carrots (the last sowing).
Planted out 15 or so dwarf french bean plants.
Weeded the oca and the rest of the beans. That's all the veg bed weeding done now.
Tied in the new loganberry and blackberry stems.

Also mulched the tomatoes and some of the runner beans with the seaweed I had collected a couple weeks ago.
Kinda wish I'd done it sooner. It had been in the bags too long and reeked of rotten eggs. It had also somehow changed the colour of the plastic pot I had one of the bags in, I suspect permanently (it was terracotta coloured, and now it's dark grey).

[MelanieSW]

Sowed some turnips (inbetween sheltering in my sentry box from the rain). Parsley, radishes and carrots will have to wait.

[Bren In Pots]

Weeded, planted out more lettuce, turned compost bin contents into an empty bin.

[ameno]

Dug over the patch where I plan to plant my kale, as well as the area where I had my first early potatoes.
Weeded one lot of runner beans.
Prune the sour cherry and netted it.
Planted out a tomato cutting I took, and removed the sideshoots from the other tomatoes.

[peanut]

Earthed up Nicola potatoes, weeded Ulster Sceptre and Charlottes.
Attacked lots of weeds. I hate bindweed.
Clipped grass edges between beds and along paths.
I ache all over but am pleased with all I got done.
Did I mention I hate bindweed