What I did today 2021

[Mr Bones]

Yesterday, guided tour of the plot to two gardeners interested in going no dig (one from our site and one from another site).

[bikermike]

Spent 11 hrs at the plot yesterday (7am - 6pm) cleared 3 beds, dug out 10kg of sharpes express and 2kg of vivaldi, lifted garlic 8kg after cleaning. Planted out 12 butternut squash and the leeks and carrots. (Then we went to a party until 11.30). I was stiff this morning. First time I have needed a barrow to take produce home...

thinned parsnips and did a bit of weeding today.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out module grown mizuna, salad bowl and Riccia Rossa lettuce.

[Mr Bones]

Yesterday - hoiked the over-sized batch of compost into the tin bay and started a new (more manageable sized) batch.

[ameno]

Managed to get some weeding done at the allotment. Weeded about half of all of the veg beds.
Also planted out some tenderstem broccoli cuttings I took just under 4 weeks ago. They had developed a good root system in that time. And I transplanted some cape gooseberry plants that had self-sown themselves from last year's fruit.

[peanut]

Finally got my Squashes and the last of the Sweetcorn in, 2 weeks later than last year, and planted all my Cobaea Scandens and Morning Glory plants which were all twisting up one another, oh what it was untangling al of those, up a couple of obelisks and arches.
I am aching all over. Happy aches though.

[ameno]

Emptied my garden compost bin, and transferred the contents of the other one into it.
Set up a climbing frame for the peas I planted a couple weeks ago.
Put mesh bags around all of my developing melons. I have 9 now.
Hand-pollinated two squash flowers.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out some mixed lettuce into troughs, weeded and deadheaded.

[Mr Bones]

Planted out 9 Stonehead and 9 Tundra cabbages, was in the process of making up a net to cover them and discovered one I'd made up years ago but couldn't find for the last five years (how do you miss a 7m x 3m net, neatly tied up like a parcel with a large plastic label attached describing what it is...)

[Sweet savory]

Found some room among the brassicas for the last leeks. Noted my first onion squash had set.
Cleared a tub of spuds and resowed with red chantenay carrots. A couple of my garlic have scapes coming.

[Bren In Pots]

Cut grass and mulched using the clippings. Pulled up lots of weeds from the raspberry bed.

[Mr Bones]

Turned the double sized compost batch (it's a bit too big really and soon runs out of air in the centre) and laid some 3x2 slabs (commonly known as double hernia size ).

[ameno]

Strimmed the allotment paths, weeded the carrots and beetroot, and tied in the tomatoes.

Also discovered I now have 8 melons developing.

[Jungle Jane]

I’m still planting out,it’s nice the days are long,I mowed the back lawn & mulched the sweetcorn with it & laid some over bare soil to stop weeds. Planted my thirty sixth tomato plant,roughly the same amount as last year. Did a lot of compost exchange,so I’m not planting tomatoes & peppers in last years tomato/potato compost,most of my plants are grown in really old compost or just the soil with some rootgrow (mycorrhizal fungi) to settle them in & water with seaweed fertiliser for a bit of nutrient. I’ve put one bean teepee up,where last years beans are regrowing,I’ve got about twelve to plant out so I need to put another teepee somewhere. Watered my borage leaves with seaweed to help the powdery mildew,I’ll need to do this again,why did I plant a courgette next to the powdery borage,I might remove some of it & put a bean teepee there to shield the courgette….

[Purple Primrose]

Spotted my first red strawberry of the year! If it survives the slug army, it should be ripe in a day or two. I have about 50 strawberry plants (of three varieties planted last year) but it's been so cold and overcast everything growing is weeks behind normal.