What I did today 2025

[Andraste]

Not as much as we planned due to rain/showers - typically it's lovely now we're home Mostly harvesting. Did tie in some tay/loganberry stems, guided the peas & mangetout to their supports, gave the broadies another squirt with garlic mix, put some slug pellets around the cosmos & gave the rather yellow looking cucs some comfrey tea.

[Mark Rand]

I didn't do much today, beyond the daily greenhouse and pot watering, cucumber harvesting and tying in of cucs and tomatoes. But Annette made a comment that might lead to a change in direction:- The courgette plant in its pot is a beautiful plant with its silvered leaves, and big yellow flowers. Why not grow them in a flower bed?

What think you?

[ameno]

Planted out a cucumber plant and some more sweetcorn plants, plus some more french beans

[Nicos]

I didn't do much today, beyond the daily greenhouse and pot watering, cucumber harvesting and tying in of cucs and tomatoes. But Annette made a comment that might lead to a change in direction:- The courgette plant in its pot is a beautiful plant with its silvered leaves, and big yellow flowers. Why not grow them in a flower bed?

What think you?

And why not?
But…do you tend to get powdery mildew on your courgette at the end of the season?
That’s not so pretty

Red, or the selection of rainbow chard , certainly look nice in a flower border.

[Peanut]

Yesterday I removed the insect mesh from my brassica beds and then spent hours, literally hours, squishing and washing off aphids. I have never seen so many! The mesh was old with few holes, but even so! Hoe'd the beds and covered with butterfly netting. Hopefully the hoverflies etc will keep my brassicas clean and healthy now.

Fitted some of those water dripping things that you screw a standard 2lt bottles. That took forever as some of them let through a rapid drip, thankfully I eventually got most of them dripping slowly. Either way they will be a help. I have put them on the courgettes and squashes for now, will add more to other stuff when I get more bottles.

Planted my surviving half dozen lettuces from mulitple sowings. Planted more spring onions, beetroots and chard. Plus parsley.

[Peanut]

Mark Rand I would! I also think climbing beans of all sorts look great in a flower border.

[Mark Rand]

Watered the unsatisfactory front lawn in the morning and weedkillered it again in the afternoon.

Planted out the chive and garlic chive seedlings into large pots (actually horse feeding bowls). Probably won't get anything much this year, but if I can keep the rust and blackfly away, I might get something next year onwards.

[Peanut]

Watered all the veg beds first thing.
Put up more strings for the beans and ipomoea to climb.
Finally sowed some carrots, parsnips and hamburg parsley (bit late but what the heck.)
Sowed more lettuces, beetroots and spring onions.
Think that's about it.

[Peanut]

Mowed the lawns. Put up spikes on the arch to deter pigeons from sitting there all day pooing. Trimmed the edges of the veg beds. Watered the blueberries, all pots and small greenhouse. Re-jigged the courtyard pots.

[Mark Rand]

Put up spikes on the arch to deter pigeons from sitting there all day pooing.

They don't spend all day pooing. They spend some of it eating the fruit out of the garden in order to make the poo.

[Peanut]

They don't spend all day pooing. They spend some of it eating the fruit out of the garden in order to make the poo.

Ahhh, yes, very true, fat feathery... (beeps)

[Andraste]

Managed everything on my 'intend to' post except tidying around the rhubarb & adding comfrey to the wet bed

[Peanut]

Planted garlic chives and sowed more.
Sowed purple delicacy kohl rabi, seem to have lost my packet of green kohl rabi.
Planted 4 more lark sweetcorn, still waiting to see if the final 9 seeds sown in pots are going to appear or just rot, like so many have this year.
Hoe'd all the veg beds, again.
Planted out 12 leeks, out of a half tray sown.

[DGV]

Harvested my first crop of peas and broad beans and then built a netted cage to protect the Brussel Sprouts I planted in their place

[DGV]

Composted all the pea and runner bean pods and planted out Brussels Sprouts and built a cage to protect them from cabbage butterfly (fingers crossed). Recorded my 2nd YouTube video on whats growing in my greenhouse as I have taken the dive into this to see what’s it’s like as just fancied sharing on (not as a job but as a hobby) so will see how it goes and see if I get feedback and ideas as that the main reason for doing it as some of the things I am growing are new to me so need to learn along the way