What I did today - 2015

[skeggijon]

Checked the Aubergine plants I accidently sprayed with weedkiller the other day. Luckily my prompt action seems to have saved them. Phew

[ESBkevin]

Shouted at a few weeds again (are you sure this is working)? and pulled a few more up. I find it very therapeutic side-shooting the tomatoes, de leafing to the set truss and twisting them up the support string so I spent a while doing that. A bit of general harvesting as detailed in the other thread and just being in awe of how green and potent everything looks at the moment.

[Jay-ell]

Pouring down with rain today as I put up the hoops and netting over the brassicas.

P.s. kiwi now at 4' mark.

[kris1960]

Family stuff yesterday so didn't get to allotment until it was raining. Spent unexpectedly long time in greenhouse sorting tomatos - I can see the soil now- they had massively outgrown their initial tethering. Pleased with number of green tomatos so far.
I'm not a big heat fan but my vegetables are - it feels more like October than July today!

[Jay-ell]

Didn't get down to the lottie today - I stayed at home to wrestle the anaconda


I've now got a pile of 10' blue hoops and a pile of 4" bits. I'll take them down next time I get the chance and put up the hoops and netting on my brassica beds - should give me a hoop house about 3.5 - 4 foot tall.


Went to Willis to see what was in their clearance - nothing took my fancy.

[Penellype]

Noticed Aubergine plants had a bad attack of greenfly, so resorted to using my last resort organic pest spray on them, then noticed another bottle of organic pest spray - thats odd, I only bought the one. Looked again at the spray I had just used - AARRRRGGGHHH, it was an organic weedkiller I'd just picked up to try out from B&M's

Quickly got the hose out - even though it was pouring down and gave them a really good spraying from all angles. Now I just have to wait and hope that its a rubbish weedkiller

Checked Melon plants for anything resembling a Melon - three plants and nothing showing so far, though the plants are absolutely full of male and female flowers and I've got loads of pollinators going in and out of the greenhouse, so ended up hand pollinating a few.

Oops - hope your plants survive the experience.

My melon plants have only one sort of flowers - they are either all male or all female and no fruit is setting. As I've not grown melons before, I haven't a clue which they are.

[Martin H]

Today I did lots more weeding, sorted out my strawberry bed by cutting off unwanted runners and weighing down wanted ones with stones, pulled up all the bolted lettuces (still plenty left) and did the summer pruning on a Granny Smith apple and a Conference pear.

Also I noticed that my sweet corn is just a few days away from ripening...

[SusieG]

Random!!! ��

[pandasyard]

I swapped a canoe/small rowing boat for some of my time. I asked someone if their canoe was for sale and they said I could have it for free as the housing association were moaning about that and the other canoes in his garden and this one is unusable on the water anyway. He said they were saying his grass needed cutting and the garden tidying so I offered to do that for him in return for the canoe!

[vixylix]

This weekend I pulled up all my shallots and carrots and a few golden beetroot. This created some space so have sown some more carrots, beetroot and radish. Although success will be dependent on whether we get any more sunshine!! Also trimmed down my sugar snaps which were leaning into next doors garden.

Also sowed indoors my leeks and purple sprouting broccoli ready to go out later in the year. Just hoping I've not left it too late!! :/

[skeggijon]

Noticed Aubergine plants had a bad attack of greenfly, so resorted to using my last resort organic pest spray on them, then noticed another bottle of organic pest spray - thats odd, I only bought the one. Looked again at the spray I had just used - AARRRRGGGHHH, it was an organic weedkiller I'd just picked up to try out from B&M's

Quickly got the hose out - even though it was pouring down and gave them a really good spraying from all angles. Now I just have to wait and hope that its a rubbish weedkiller

Checked Melon plants for anything resembling a Melon - three plants and nothing showing so far, though the plants are absolutely full of male and female flowers and I've got loads of pollinators going in and out of the greenhouse, so ended up hand pollinating a few.

[Nannysally99]

I've been jammin today, the house smells lovely, homegrown strawberrys with a touch of rhubarb, delicious

[Gillykat]

At the beginning of June (5th & 9th) first my old cat Hattie died and then four days later my mother-in-law Stella The allotment kind-of got neglected apart from my watering stuff in the polytunnel. After the funeral on 23rd I decided hard work was in order so went up the allotment thinking I could do a 'bit' of weeding. Pah!!! The weeds had THRIVED on my neglect and coupled with days of rain & sun were enormous and covering the paths I have spent backbreaking sessions attempting to regain control and TODAY I finally finished!

Never again will I allow a single weed to get taller than one inch!!!!

Also started tidied tomatoes in tunnel to allow for a bit more aeration...they had begun to resemble jungle!!!! I'm so glad I followed you guys' advice and moved them further apart!!! Got a few small tommies starting to form too *so exciting!!!* and tomorrow, when the forecast is heavy rain all day, I'll finish tidying them up.

[Snadger]

Harvested a bucket full of strawberries and half a bucket full each of blackcurrants and gooseberries.
Back is killing me after harvesting strawberries so I think I'll make a couple of raised beds for them next year.
Watered indoor areas and seedlings with hosepipe and left for home.

[Two_Sheds]

- picked another 8 courgettes (omg, ffs, etc)
- 1kg blackberries, turned into juice & frozen
- loads French beans
- brought home a sack of onions to dry off in the GH
- ditto 4 trays of wildflower seed
- need to weed, but it's still raining