What I did today - 2015

[kris1960]

Same here Susie, except for chillies coming along nicely- mine seem to be very slow, flowers but no chillies.
Continued tidying, fed tomatos, cucumbers(comfrey) and sweetcorn (comfrey and nettle mix). Began pruning blackcurrants,weeded polytunnel, more duckweeding and filled all the bird feeders.
Managed to stay upright throughout!

[SusieG]

Arrived back home to sunny Midlands- just to find the "mountain mist " was hot on our heels! Rushed out to my GH expectantly waiting to be greeted by an abundance of rosy red toms ... alas, as green as when I'd left 'em last Saturday morning!!! Chillies coming along nicely, despite almost being watered to within an inch of their lives... Lots of flowers, not a bean in sight on the runners ....
Oh well, it'll all happen when they're ready!! (I hope)

[kris1960]

Completed long border - widened, weeded and put in some bedding plants(dead plant section at homebase), in extra space and a reuban blackberry.
Comedy accident with dock - it broke and I went flying ,painfully, into asparagus bed!

[Penellype]

I too qualify as 'feeling an idiot' - surprise surprise there then....

I have tamed my triffid outdoor toms and after admiring the long run of toms on one vine cut it off by mistake!

Oh dear If you still have them, they may ripen anyway if you put them in a warmish, dry place (light not needed).

[Lumpy]

I too qualify as 'feeling an idiot' - surprise surprise there then....

I have tamed my triffid outdoor toms and after admiring the long run of toms on one vine cut it off by mistake!

[SusieG]

Glad you decided eventually to thin your PSB!! Hope it wasn't TOO painful ...

[kris1960]

Returned manure bags and thanked the horses responsible. Another 10 feet of border done, some onion bed clearance, picking and a lot of catching up with allotmenteers. All of of a certain age have been childminding/on "holidays" with grandkids so we haven't run into each other for a bit.

[Snadger]

I decided to make the most of Summer & changed from this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]58009[/ATTACH]
To this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]58010[/ATTACH]
Via this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]58011[/ATTACH]

So thats 2 Polycages I have............. [ATTACH=CONFIG]58012[/ATTACH]

They must have been at it behind your back cos there's a baby in the middle back!

[Bigmallly]

I decided to make the most of Summer & changed from this:
To this:
Via this:

So thats 2 Polycages I have.............

[Penellype]

I feel like an idiot

I was tidying up my outdoor cucumbers, taking off the side shoots at the base to let air in and I accidently snipped off the main stem! Ive tried to graft it back together but still gutted! ive put a sideshoot in water to root as plan B

Oh no! I hope your repair job works.

[1Bee]

Lots of weed bashing today. I attacked the paths around the potato bed, hoping to improve the air circulation. This involves either hacking at them with an old hoe, or getting down on my knees and wrenching them out in handfuls... the latter hurts my back less and is more effective!

Set up some canes and string for floppy 'dwarf' french beans, scattered some slug pellets (the ferrous wotsit ones) and *sob* thinned some PSB. Watered courgettes, gave the ones under cloches an airing, and went round the whole plot pulling up thistles while the ground is soft.

Nice.

[maverick451]

I feel like an idiot

I was tidying up my outdoor cucumbers, taking off the side shoots at the base to let air in and I accidently snipped off the main stem! Ive tried to graft it back together but still gutted! ive put a sideshoot in water to root as plan B

[Penellype]

Dodging the showers today which is getting frustrating as the lawn needs a trim and the hotbin needs grass to keep it hot. Electric mower + rain is not a good combination.

Cut down the tomato plants in my kitchen, which have been victims of red spider mite infestation but have managed to produce a few ripe fruit. Moved the pot of aubretia out of the way (under the potatoes) to make room for the strawberries that have finished fruiting so that I could make room under the net for some beetroot which has been hiding under the potatoes... Hopefully the net will keep the caterpillars off it long enough for it to grow some leaves, unlike what happened to the chard last year. Apart from 4 pot of PSB which are defying finding a place where they actually seem to like the conditions, I think most things have a home for now.

But...

It started to rain and I remembered I had a Wyevale voucher that expired tomorrow, so off I went. Came home with a bag of Charlotte seed potatoes, some violas to replace the dying bedding plants in the front garden, and 2 new types of lettuce seeds.

What was I saying about everything having a home? I need 2 empty buckets (got 0) to plant my potatoes in now. I should be able to cram the buckets in behind the courgettes, in place of the almost finished peas.

Been working on my plan for next year and discovered that the buckets fit better in the veg cage than the current square pots (and are easier to move about as they have handles). Maybe its time to order another 10 30 litre buckets. I thought 16 would be plenty, but clearly not!

Also picked 2 large courgettes and made some soup.

[1Bee]

[Yesterday]

Weeded two small raised beds and thinned butterhead lettuce, red oak leaf, rocket and basil. Planted out last sowing of the dwarf french beans, to plug gaps in the second raised bed.

Weeded here and there, pulling thistles round the edges, bashing down the path edges etc.

Planted out a replacement sunflower to replace the one that snapped off in winds, when I'd been thinking "I must tied that up" for a week or two. Tied it up.

[kris1960]

Well caught Skeggi!
Rolled 100+ manure bags and packed for return so somewhat smelly yesterday.
Fed tomatos and cleared some blanket and duckweed from pond. It may be a coincidence but the nearby sickly looking mulberry sapling- often the recipient- has luscious healthy leaves now and seems really happy. Perhaps I should use it on other ailing plants.
Have embarked on path and bed by bed maintenance in between work on onion bed. Started on long flower/ veg boundary border- always more work when you look closely- weeded, cutback and tidied about 4 foot. Delphinium is flowering again!