What I did today 2025

[Jungle Jane]

A couple of days ago I cut down two of my runner bean teepees & chop & dropped the plants on top of the plants roots. Watered my broccoli in the ground with nettle fertiliser. I’ve got a few varieties of tomato seeds soaking at the mo,black icicle,mountain princess,roughwood golden plum,black trifele & rosella,there’s a few more to save black cherry,taiko & violet jasper waiting in the kitchen. I grew Alicante but they’re very slow to ripen compared to the rest 🧐

[Containergardener]

Ended up cleaning gutters which then had me sweeping up then pruning and harvesting.

[Peanut]

Watered the greenhouses this morning.

[Containergardener]

Did some more gutter cleaning. Can't reach the other one so OH required for that.
Emptied tomato pots, now its whether I put it on veg beds (won't be used for potatoes) not sure yet.
Pulled self seeded toms out of veg bed.
Removed courgette plants.
Harvested.
Pruned a bit .
Sorted lawn edges.
Little weeding.

[Bren In Pots]

Dug a bean trench filling it with Dalek compost. Then added more Dalek compost and levelled of what will be my brassica bed next year.

[Containergardener]

Some hacking back in an overgrown corner

[Jungle Jane]

I just mowed the back lawn & put some of the grass under my broccoli I watered with nettle feed earlier. Went to the garden centre for bird food & fertiliser this afternoon & also got my red onions (& some daffodils,crocus & alliums in creams & purples for the front garden & some yellow daffodils for the back garden).

[Containergardener]

Harvested.
Chopped down runner beans.

[Jungle Jane]

Today I put little sticks in with my rocket,to stop the net touching the leaves,I cut back the grape vine a bit to expose the rest of the apples. I just noticed one of the broccoli plants that I cut down in the summer because it was dried out & not doing well,has grown some little leaves

[Nicos]

Raked up leaves from the gravel driveway then pulled up exposed weeds.

[Jungle Jane]

Loads of weeding beds & patio. Planted my garlic today & watered them with nettle feed,sprinkled BFB around & covered with greenhouse metal shelves to stop cats digging etc.

[Peanut]

Yesterday I cleared a couple of veg beds and planted out my Spring/hungry gap brassicas. Tuscan and garlic kale, Durham early Spring and Winter jewel cabbages, a single germinated collard greens plant and some Scilian violet cauliflowers, as an experiment as I had an open pack of seeds.
Harvested my lima, haricot and borlotto beans I grew for drying.
Cut back and cleared a few bits n bobs, weeded a few odds and sods.
Collected lots of rotting and manky looking windfalls along with two wheelbarrows full of stuff for the compost.

All in all I had a lovely time just being in the garden, pottering and plodding on.

[Jungle Jane]

Wednesday I weeded the front garden a bit but mainly reduced the size of the nettles,saw a green caterpillar so left that area for her to eat & home,the nettles I cut are in the garden on a tray to make fertiliser with. It rained a lot yesterday so there’s probably some ready made feed going on. I need to finish weeding & plant the flower bulbs.

[Bren In Pots]

Tidied up the brassica cage this morning just finished before the rain started.

[Jungle Jane]

I’m putting some tomato seeds to dry on paper plates for next year. Yesterday I noticed a leaf sticking out of my broccoli tent,what’s the point in all of the net when there’s a massive entrance Flower bulbs I was going to plant in the front garden,I planted them in the back garden,alliums,cream daffodils,Dutch iris & crocus. A few days ago I made two bottles of nettle fertiliser & cut down a few tomato plants & the last two cucumber plants. Dead headed the geraniums & French marigolds. These anemone have been flowering a long time -