What I did today - 2015

[Bigmallly]

As I don't fully utilise the Kite over winter, I thought I'd improve the irrigation so............."Off with it's 'ed."

[CaroleL]

Checked everything that's being grown upwards to see if any help needed. Tidied the courgettes and removed a few of the tatty leaves to open the plants up a bit.
Fed and watered, although not much watering needed after the rain we've had recently.

Must go and attack the weeds soon.

[Lumpy]

Ordered another raised bed to go into my new (and still very small) growing area - struth I love link a bordy

[Scarlet]

I'm going to have a major weeding session today. Also need to plant some spring cabbage seeds, so looking through my seed box now. Found a pack of "pixie" will sow some of those as well as a trial.

[bario1]

Weeded paths - patches of grass and dandelions coming up through the woodchip now, they need re-doing.
Cut some comfrey and put it in the compost bins.
Found a module tray with some calendula seedlings still in it under the comfrey jungle! Found a spot to plant them out.
Watered everything in the tunnel, coldframe and pots.

[kris1960]

Yesterday- continued tidying,dug and prepared 8'x4' bed.
New phone is driving me to distraction(where are grandchildren when you need them) but am hoping to be able to post photos more easily when I get to grips with it.

[skeggijon]

Watering, strimming, more watering. Pulled up the onions, and planted 30 Fenella Strawberry plants.

[Penellype]

Cut the road side of the leylandii hedge and filled the green bin with it as its recycling day tomorrow. Still got 2 lengths of 8 ft high hedge to do but they have to be done in stages due to battery life, space in the green bin and the amount of energy required.

Went out to harvest some peas and decided the meteor had about finished and most of them needed to come out. Spent some time chopping pea foliage and filled a layer of the wormery with it. Stuffed the rest into the hotbin - that makes green bin, wormery and hotbin all completely full.

Also managed to find time to make some bread and go shopping, so quite a useful day really.

Harvested some white currants and ate them with ice cream. Makes a change from strawberries.

[kris1960]

I'm supposed to be getting allotment ship shape with veg removed, beds dug and replanted, fruit picked and turned into chutneys and jams ready for a weeks grandchildren minding in Sheffield next week but I am not making the progress I intended:
Mobile not charging so spent a long time organising that and ultimately agreeing to new phone(weeks of trying to learn how it works in store). Then set off to Coventry to pick up seeds that I had left in Sheffield in June(daughter to daughter exchange), lovely time with grandchildren and some errands done but totally forgot seeds.
Intending a full day tomorrow and am wondering how to get plans back on track!

[Jay-ell]

Planted out three more red currant bushes and six gooseberry bushes (three more to go). Teased apart another strawberry plant which gave another dozen little plants which have been planted underneath the red currants.


Watched the bees buzzing around my runner beans - hey hey I have a very small bean pod forming. Watched them buzzing in the blowaway, popping in and out of the melon flowers. Noticed the male flowers on my watermelon are open - hopefully I'll get some female ones soon. Cucamelons have perked up a bit but still no flowers.


A couple of female flowers were open on my Hundredweight pumpkin as well as a male flower on the Atlantic Giant. As both are Maxims and the bees were flitting about them I'm hopeful they'll take.


Resisted the judge to measure the kiwi fruit.

[kris1960]

Dug up first potato bed, probably a bit early judging from enormous amount of too small ones and prepared for leeks and carrots to take over tomorrow. Some picking, chatting, veg swapping, watering and weeding.

[bario1]

Over the weekend I:

Planted out my PSB and the last of my kales into my 2nd brassica bed.
Planted out my last sowing of French beans and sugar snaps (actually, I might try direct sowing a few more beans between my sweetcorn - note to self)
Watered everything in pots/polytunnel
Harvested Red Duke of York spuds, gooseberries and some strawberries to eat while watching the Wimbledon final!

[Jay-ell]

Unzipped the blowaway and got attacked by the watermelon plant, having wrestled that back onto the trellis it was the cucumbers turn followed by the melons - I really wish I bought those machetes the other month. Turn your back for a couple of days and they're all over the place.


Decided to transplant a strawberry in a pot that came with the plot. After dividing it into a dozen little crowns it now resides under the red currants as ground cover and the third layer of fruit from that bit. Have another potted strawberry to split up as well as the ones on my old plot so looks like I'm going to have a couple of strawberries next year.


Measured my kiwi plant. it's growing really slowly - it's only gained one foot in the past week and is now 35 inches tall. That just under an inch and a Half a day. Hopefully once it's roots get down a bit more and the new leaves grow and produce food it'll begin to grow a bit quicker.

My runners are starting to get to the top of the canes so I nipped a couple of them out. Flowers are there but no beans just yet.

Despite wearing shorts I hacked back the nettles growing in front of my larger see through shack - right next to a bumble bee nest and managed not to get stung by either.


Counted the male flower buds on my pumpkins - LOTS. Counted the female flower buds on my pumpkins - not many.

[CaroleL]

I haven't done much today, just checked anything growing upwards to see if it needed any more support. The toms did, but not much else.

[alrklein]

So far in 2015 I have picked 1 courgette, 6 small tomatoes and a couple good handfuls of peas. Thats all

I take heart from the previous posts that things will improve with experience!

We are self sufficient in lettuce even though it was bought as plants not from seed!!