What I did today - 2015

[Snadger]

Dug up the second half of a bed of Tesco's spuds. They really are a nice tatty.

Planted half a bed of Troy onion sets. So that's a 10 foot X 4 foot bed half filled with white winter sets and half filled with red winter sets.

Believe it or not i have 18 beds of this size and all have stuff in them. So much so that i will probably finish up growing my three types of Spring Cabbage in the greenhouse and tunnel along with dwarf broadies as well.
I can't get in the greenhouses yet though because the toms grapes and peppers are still going strong.
I took home three mahoosive spuds for a baked tatty supper along with lots of different coloured toms and a dozen eggs!
It was a comparatively nice evening so spent a bit of time weeding.

[skeggijon]

Was at the lotty at 6:20 this morning after finishing work. Did a bit of watering in the GH and PT's.
Checked on Strawberry runners - decided I'm going to transfer some into grow bags on staging in polytunnel this year after my success with overwintered ones in hanging baskets.
Made a cuppa and fried some Oyster Mushrooms freshly picked and sat in the shed mentally planning for next year, before coming home to bed and a telling off from OH for being lotty obsessed

[bario1]

(yesterday) - popped into the allotment on the way home from work to pick some toms and parsley for our dinner, and when I turned to leave there was a cheeky wee doggy wandering around on my plot. After following it around for 10 minutes trying to get hold of it (the local fox wasn't helping matters) i managed to grab it long enough to memorise the number on it's collar, which i then called. The grateful and slightly flustered owner was soon at the allotment gate, and after another 10 minutes of chasing it around, doggy was collared and led away in disgrace.

[bramble]

Checked on my garden this afternoon and I was delighted to see my garlic has started to grow.
All these lovely green shoots.
I only planted it out ten days ago.

[Snadger]

Took the debri netting off my curly kale to give it a bit more light now that the tree behind my plot is dropping its leaves and letting more light in.
Harvested a few courgettes and a pumpkin for the Grand kids.Decided the bed the pumpkin was in will become my Japanese onion bed once cleared and planted up with sets.

[1Bee]

Best. Day. Ever.

I had no demands on my time between 9.00am and 3pm. And the sun came out.

Moved the compost dalek and turned, aerated and re-layered the compost.

Pulled up the spent DFBs and courgette plants, picked the DFBs over for the last beans and composted the rest.

Sat in the sun and read a book, eating bread and cheese.

Cut and levelled a new path alongside the hedge, then covered it with newspaper and weed membrane. Trimmed a bit of the hedge. Apologised to the bumble bee I unearthed and fed it mushed grape and flower heads.

Harvested a leek for tea.

[CaroleL]

I've had a quick tidy in the greenhouse. Some of the sweet pepper and chilli pepper plants are still not producing any fruits so they've been evicted and the remaining plants have been checked over, tidied and given a bit more space.

The garden has just about finished and I won't be planting any winter crops as I'm going to have very little free time between now and Feb with all the overtime I'll be doing.

I'm just going to have a cuppa and peruse the latest seed catalogue that arrived this morning

[bramble]

Planted out the last of my onion sets today.
Had to reduce the space between them as space is at a premium.
Tomatoes still growing outdoors so cant use that space.

[Penellype]

Finally gave up waiting for the Belle tomatoes (beefsteak variety) to ripen in the growhouse. Cut off the final 3 fruits (the rest have mostly already come to a sticky end) and brought them inside to ripen. No idea why I persist in trying to grow beefsteak tomatoes in my garden - I have yet to eat a ripe one.

Growhouse is now empty so took the opportunity to remove the self watering trays and give the whole thing a good clean ready for the Christmas potatoes to come in when frost is forecast. That is if I don't find anything else to put in there first...

My lawn is now covered with bits of capillary matting, trays and tray shelves trying to dry off.

Also cooked the day's quota of ripe tomatoes for the freezer.

[Lisasbolt]

Picked my olives for curing, now only have to wash and rinse twice a day for 2 weeks and then wait a few months before eating. Hopefully it will be worth it.
Saved some tomato seed, for the neighbour.
Mostly just pottered.

[Ovce dom�c�]

It was a sad day shutting the garden down till next year. Pulled out the pumpkins and the last of the onions, pulled the tomatillo plants out and gathered in the chicken wire, pulled up the last Mooli Minos which came with this mag which were great, good results and used them in an Asian lunch froze the rest. Emptied the water barrels, cleaned and took them in and took down the mini greenhouse.

Still a few things in the ground, root parsley, leek, swedes, last tomatoes hoping to ripen, more leaf parsley to make pesto but this was the main shut down day.

[Bex]

A busy weekend what with trying to move allotments, I finally moved the last of my stuff from old shed to new shed, all I've got to do now is pay the rent.

Old allotment - picked the last of the beetroot, boiled when I got home. I must sow far more beetroot next year. Picked my final cauliflower, out of 6 plug plants I only ended up with two cauli's will try from seed next year. Cut down the French beans and moved the canes to new allotment.

New Allotment - planted some spring bulbs and a rose bush that I got from Aldi. I did a bit of digging but it was a bit too wet. Put coldframe in a sheltered position next to the shed and put my sweetpeas in it along with some cabbage. Harvested raspberries, I've loads of raspberries still to come, just wish I knew what variety they were. Harvested some radish and sowed some more seeds. Transplanted some lettuce. Planted Onion and Garlic.

[Snadger]

Managed to finally to get a few of my red onion sets planted. Problem is i need to harvest stuff before I have enough space.
Gathered constituents of an allotment broth. Parsnip,swede,tatties,leeks,onions,carrots,mooli and kin-tsai. Also lifted some beetroot for boiling.

[Jonny.D]

Dug a load of compost into the front garden

[Lumpy]

Fed Gert, Maud and Elsie turnip and radish plants - bald ex bats attacking a radish with obvious intent to subdue it is something to behold,

Got the last of the garlic in.

Groaned when the post delivered 10 more seed packets from T&M who had posted them in a 'living plant' box.