What I did today - 2015

[Snadger]

Dug over a bed on someone elses plot as I had no room left to plant some leeks. Hope they don't mind. Eighty dibbered holes in the dug earth just waiting for rainfall!

[Snadger]

If it's any consolation he does have to wait in line for the tap.

I dont though.

Tisk. Little do you know that because you've got your own tap............you get your own bill to go with it!

[skeggijon]

Arrived on plot at 8am and did loads of watering in greenhouse and polytunnels again. Collected the daily strawberries before retreating home to the shade.

Back to work tonight

[bario1]

This morning before work -

Filled my 600ltrs of rainwater storage with a hose - the promised heavy rains never came last night and my plants need the water!
Watered the beans, courgettes and roots on the plot.
Watered the sweetcorn in the polytunnel.
Planted out the last of my kale seedlings.
Planted out some sweet peas.

[Jay-ell]

You have no idea how jealous I am of your ability to 'put the hose on"!

If it's any consolation he does have to wait in line for the tap.

I dont though.

[Ding Dang Doo]

Managed to water the plot... Then an hour later we had a massive thunderstorm, with the biggest hailstones I've ever seen, it has just about finished now.

I think there may be a few green casualties because of this... Be interesting to see in the morning.

And the turnips I sowed on Saturday are already showing... Blinking quick that! Made my day.

On a little more of a down note, it looks like one of the allotment cats has taken shine to one of my raised beds... Think I may have to net it.

[1Bee]

What I did today: sweated.

[Jonny.D]

Cut up green waste for the compost, dug out 2 big roots, weeded & still watering, the soil is drinking it up

[kris1960]

Pollinated my pumpkin in the polytunnel by getting three male flowers and doing the business with them in the hope that one is at the right stage to pollinate it!
Didn't need to water outdoors as we had just had a massive thunderstorm soaking the place. Still needed to water indoors with the watering can though.

That's right- rub it in- a hose and a thunderstorm!

[kris1960]

Still beetroot red and dripping with sweat after trying to finish digging rows for potatos, got one done before giving up and crawling under a hedge to lie in shade!

[skeggijon]

Arrived at the lotty around 7am to find the greenhouse was already 29 degrees and the polytunnels were over 30 degrees - thats even with them all left open and all the vents open.

Lots and lots of watering and sprayed the floors to increase humidity.

Squirted a couple of tomato plants with garlic water to shoot off a few greenfly that had appeared. Has anyone else noticed there seems to be quite a lot more of the little blighters this year?

By that time, it was 10:30 and far too hot to do much else, so harvested the days strawberries, raspberries, tayberries and gooseberries - oh and a couple of cucumbers and two cherry tomatoes and some radishes, before escaping to the relative cool of home.

[Nannysally99]

As we garden mainly in pots/bags/containers, watering is the order of every day. Good job hubby finds watering therapeutic lol.
Got some pots and 3 tier baskets planted up with lids bedding plants. The White petunia have gone absolutely wild, can't see any other plants but them grrr.
The red petunias haven't been doing anything - that is until I found my husband had been deadheading them BEFORE flowering.
Bought a new garden bench today on pensioners day. Got a good price, not worth repairing our old one.
Chicken with salad and home grown spuds tonight, yum
Have a lovely evening all

[Martin H]

Lots of watering today. Lots of squishing too - aphids have found my pepper plants in the greenhouse so a pleasant half-hour was spent checking each leaf.

Watered the beans and sweetcorn and plaited the garlic I dug up at the weekend, now hanging up safely in the kitchen:

[Snadger]

Pollinated my pumpkin in the polytunnel by getting three male flowers and doing the business with them in the hope that one is at the right stage to pollinate it!
Didn't need to water outdoors as we had just had a massive thunderstorm soaking the place. Still needed to water indoors with the watering can though.

[Snadger]

You have no idea how jealous I am of your ability to 'put the hose on"! I have a long walk from communal trough hauling watercans, I normally consider the benefits to my fitness and waistline but am finding stoicism more difficult in the heat.
Pretty wimpy given that I grew up in the outback of Australia.

Didn't used to bother and its not very environmentally friendly, but its so much easier,especially when its warm as you don't mind when you spray yourself by mistake. Its also a lot quicker than using a watering can.
My old philosophy was to 'Treat em ard' and water sparingly but when the temperature rises its nice to have a cold shower!