What I did today 2025

[Bren In Pots]

Moved my brassica cage to the next bed along then planted kale, cabbage and chard.
Planted 2 courgettes and put some peas to chit.

[Peanut]

Yesterday I weeded and tidied my front bed of lavender and erigiron, I'm so glad I got rid of the grass and planted it with flowers, they look so pretty.
I also mowed the lawns and laid more cardboard to join four beds into 2 longer ones. Hopefully it will rain today and then I will cover with homemade compost, put up a couple of arches then plant lots of beans.

[Jungle Jane]

Today I planted out six more sweetcorn plants,there’s four left that can’t really fit in the space then it started raining,it’s been quite windy here 38mph gusts it says online.

[Peanut]

Assembled and erected two new arches and they look fab, I am really pleased with them. I see more arches in my near future

[ameno]

Finally finished digging all of the allotment beds.
Started laying down black plastic for my tender crops.
Planted out 3 watermelon plants.

[Peanut]

Yesterday I covered the cardboard on the 3 new beds with my homesmade compost, that was a lot of shovelling and wheelbarrowing! After that I finally planted some prairie penstemon which have been languishing in 9cm for almost 2yrs. The poor little things might die of shock now they have the freedom of open ground.
Also planted my 4 courgettes, 2 green and 2 yellow. Then I moved an obelisk and popped it into the new bed for my little buffy ball squashes to climb.

Feeling a little bit achy this morning

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I was looking at raincoats online,ones that cover the whole body & wishing I had one of them or a greenhouse to pot up everything,a couple of small peppers & sunflowers bent over yesterday in the wind,it poured with rain & I got indoors but abandoned the plants out there until it stopped for five minutes & I put them back in the blowaway,they’re not hard enough yet for wind & rain. Some of my plants are on the patio table but I’ve put little sticks in with the tomato plants or they’d bend in the wind

[Peanut]

Today I put up 3 more new arches. I put them all together with a little gap between them this will become a flower and bean tunnel, should look pretty and productive.

[Andraste]

Sounds lovely peanut - I'd love to see a pic

[Jungle Jane]

Today I planted eight more tomatoes,one Turks turban squash,nine marigolds & a couple of geraniums. Just did a quick slug/snail hunt.

[ameno]

Dug over the squash patch at home, and planted two squash plants.
Thinned one of the apple trees.
Planted out 12 sweet potato plants at the allotment.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted up 3 Sage plants I’d grown from cuttings, then planted out my last 2 spare tomato plants.

[Peanut]

Sounds lovely peanut - I'd love to see a pic

Taking pics is on my to do list!

[Jungle Jane]

It’s raining now we’re supposed to have thunder,I moved the large ceanothus stump today,that fell when the neighbour removed all the roots from their side. It’s dried out a bit this year & I can just move it,I sawed the poking out bit off,my planter needs fixing where it fell through & broke it,I took photos to explain what I mean…I got two large pots planted up,one with two partytime cucumbers,geraniums & marigolds & one with mountain princess tomato,geranium,mini pepper & marigold,they’re the pots either side of the potato container next to the patio door. I also put the smaller blowaway in the shed

[Andraste]

Weeding, earthed up spuds, threw some slug pellets about, adjusted the net over the cabbage & summer psb, pulled some rhubarb.