What I did today - 2016

[susieq100]

It was so warm at the plot yesterday afternoon, that I resolved to go earlier today and spent a very productive couple of hours there before it got REALLY hot. Lots of de-leafing in the greenhouse, pulled up a dead row of peas, pulled up my broad beans, fertilised and then planted some turnips, pak choi, mooli and dwarf beans. Harvested some potatoes and a mixture of French and runner beans (for FiL's supper tonight), some raspberries and rhubarb (for jam) and courgettes for mucver (Turkish style courgette fritters) and a few peas and spring onions for salad tomorrow. Don't you just love this time of year?

[Guest]

Well today is a new day. Ripped out over half the tom plants from gh1 due to blight. Gave the green house a sweep down. Gave and still giving the pepper plants some tlc. They are being dunked and left to soak in a bucket of feed and potted on and are now filling the greenhouse up again. Just hope they reward me well for the late flourish of care

[Small pumpkin]

A little bit of weeding in the tunnel bed and paint brushed a few more chilli flowers

[vixylix]

I was up at 6 and out in the garden (having washed me, hair, and two lots of clothes) for 9. I have SLOGGED and downed tools at 7.30. I've finally got to the point where everything is done and in place and just ongoing maintenance and harvesting left - hurray!!

I pulled up the rest of my garlic, bolted spinach, rocket and lettuce, tidied up the strawberries, dismantled the blowaway (ready for moving house), potted 18 chilli plants and one strawberry and cucamelon into their final pots, tidied and tied in all the toms and cukes, deadheaded the flowers, weeded and fed / watered!

I'll sleep well tonight

[Cadalot]

I have been far to busy with work to get down to the allotment during the week to do anything which is a real shame as the weather has been marvellous the last week if not tropical.

I would have liked a swift visit Saturday, but the support to the shed door/ gate has been on it's last legs for a year, I did a Heath Robinson on it as the washing machine and tumble dryer need to be removed in order to replace the supporting timber. Then the washing machine stopped working Tuesday !!.

No excuses now as the washing machine has to come out to be replaced. I looked for a gate kit and was shocked how expensive they had become in 25 years since I built the original. So I managed to make a new gate for less than half the price by buying economy decking and building it myself and painting all the timber before assembly ready for Saturday.

[Containergardener]

Yesterday... (At my parents)
Planted chrysanths ,calendulas, and various others I'd grown.
Pruned or tidied up some more shrubs , it's a big garden ...more to do yet
Harvested some beets, spring onions and a courgette (marrow).. Dad well impressed
Took own pad n pen and made a list of jobs mum wants doing but doesn't tell me
I have a few projects to do to make her garden easier to manage.

[Scoot]

Not a lot to do in my garden at the minute apart from keeping on top of watering things. Everything is looking fine, apart from the leeks which i feel like ripping out and pretending never happened.

[susieq100]

I have flowers on my aubergines - YAY! I have never grown them before and am absurdly excited about this. Come on my little eggy plants - give Auntie Susie a fruit!! Other than that ... watering!

[Snadger]

Picked a bucket of strawberries. Sowed Spring cabbage in 24 modules, some to be used as spring greens. Had hoped to do more but rain stopped play!

Watered indoor stuff and prayed that my pumpkin had been pollinated. I think it has but time will tell whether it grows bigger or just drops off!

[susieq100]

To the allotment for a couple of hours - it meant missing The Archers Omnibus, but then I was going out to lunch so ... sacrifices had to be made. Planted some swede and beetroot, watered the greenhouse, harvested some more beans, a couple of 'lunch-box' cucumbers and another courgette. Spread some bark chips over my paths. It's still untidy and a bit weedy and overgrown but at least it's productive!

[Containergardener]

Worked zzzzzz

[Ladyslip]

Potted on a poorly looking chilli and two tiddlers don't expect them to amount to much. Reading above post spotted an overgrown courgette and forgot to pick. Watered poly and fed tomatoes ....need to defoliate.....have some nice trusses but my it was hot in there.......put salad grow thing together ready for sowing.
Went to gc......they'd reduced some veggies and roots I'd never normally buy as I don't believe they'll ever really amount to anything...but parsnips for a pound I thought I'd try having forgotten to sow and duly transplanted in tubs when i got back. They'd also reduce all the patio fruit trees and fruit bushes so.......I bought a green and a yellow gooseberry bush...a red currant...a black currant...2 thornless blackberries 2patio plums and I think that's it ��

[Cadalot]

A short visit to the allotment as I needed to plant some carrots started off in modules donated by my brother-in-law, some celery, cut back the dying foliage to the Estima Potatoes harvesting 2/3 of the bed and finally collecting the seed heads off the parsnip tree.

[ESBkevin]

Popped up yesterday evening once the heat subsided.

Watered as applicable and fed Toms, runner beans, courgette, cucumber and fruit trees with the patented (Me-own) combined feed of nettle tea, cumfry tea and Pee! The Tomatos cordons are as thick as my thumb and hard to twist up the sting supports, cucumbers are fruiting well enough now although the plants do look a bit poor in comparison.

A small amount of weeding where desparate needs. more planned to do jobs and pick some veg. Peas, courgette, spinnach, lettuce, beetroot, celery.

All things considerred it's nice to see everything green and productive, or at least mostly. I enjoy having something of our own to eat every day.

[Snadger]

Had a mooch around the local GC and Homebase. Bought 10 X 6 foot canes at the GC and a golden acer and Salix flame at Homebase. Went straight to the alottment and potted Acer into bigger plot. Salix was actually three plants when I had a good look so potted two up into a single pot and tuther into a pot of its own. This i will grow on a single stem as a tree, the others as a coppiced bush.

Dug up some Charlottes for supper.

Added the 6 foot canes to my tomato plats (already have 4 foot canes) and tied them in, taking off side shoots as I went.

Even though it was a bit overcast and windy I decided to unroll the felt on my summerhouse roof to make sure I had enough. I have, so just need some sunny weather to complete.