What I did today 2021

[peanut]

Cleared an area of daylillies and other stuff which I plan to turn into a large potting/storage area.
Painted one side (the rough side) of two featherboard panels, nearly killed me and took 3hrs. The 16ft side of my shed only took 2hrs!

[ameno]

Cut down another blighted tomato.
Gathered in my onions.
Pruned the grapes and the gooseberry.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my winter lettuce.
Arctic king
Salad bowl
All year round
Valmaine
Spicy mix

[Bren In Pots]

You can't get better than free

[Mr Bones]

Nice looking shed MrB

Thanks Bren, check out those orange pans too - they were left out down the road for the scrap man. Brand new, still in their individual plastic bags and boxed. I even had to attach the handles to the lids

[Bren In Pots]

Nice looking shed MrB

[Mr Bones]

Fitted another window in the tea shed (made using a re-purposed shower screen) - makes it a lot lighter for cooking lotty fodder

[quanglewangle]

Cut our wibbly wobbly hedge. Heather looking good on the Carn in the background.

[Bren In Pots]

Cut down my JA's to 3ft they were shading the runners a bit to much, pulled out a trug full of self seeded Teasels from between the GH and garden wall. Still plenty left growing at the bottom of the garden for the birds.

[MelanieSW]

Had to pull all my tomatoes on the allotment (apart from 2 plants which I hope to keep going for another week or two), and remove the haulms from the potatoes.

Dratted blight, first time I've had that, it doesn't happen often here in South London. Though with the kind of weather we've been having I knew it was only a question of time. Most plots on the allotment site seem to be affected.

[quanglewangle]

• Washed the bark on the silver birch trees - brings them up a treat
• Weeded asparagus

[annie8]

Harvested my first earlies, had been taking a few but decided to clear the bed. Very pleased with crop. Will grow annabelle again

[peanut]

Finally got the last of my brassicas in, I can't tell you how relieved I am to get that done!
Tied in the Squashes climbing up the arches. Weeded the sweetcorn and squash bed.

[Bren In Pots]

Not much in the garden just harvesting, feeding and sowing assorted lettuce.

[ameno]

Cut diseased leaves off my melons, watermelons, squashes and tomatoes.
Lifted the sweet potato stems to stop them rooting into bare ground along their length. The sweet potato plants really are starting to take over. The vines are going everywhere and they seem to get noticeably bigger each time I visit. The purple ones are also now flowering.
In the process, discovered two more watermelons, so I put those into net bags to keep the slugs off them. That's a total of 5 watermelons bagged and growing. Hopefully they will ripen.
Also unbagged the largest watermelon, as it was getting too big for the bag, and any larger and it would have been stuck and probably split the bag at the seams. Hopefully it's large enough now that the rind will be too tough for the slugs to bother with (it's probably a little over a kilo at this point).
Pulled out the dead pea plants, along with the numerous weeds underneath, forked in some poultry manure, and planted out two rows of chicory plants and sowed one row of spinach.