What I did today - 2016

[vixylix]

Just found whiteflies taking up residence on my lemon drop chillies (weirdly on nothing else... that I can see!) so have squashed what I could an sprayed with some soapy / oily water. It worked on the blackflies last year so keeping fingers crossed.

No wonder they'd stopped growing!

[plam]

I potted on my Etna Chillies and sowed two trays of cosmos and some morning glory (windowsills now groaning with seedlings). At the allotment I sowed some salad stuff under the cloche tunnel and some bulb fennel and cardoon in pots in the greenhouse. Everything has survived the frost - minus 1.8 C in the GH last night! Then more digging

[nick the grief]

burnt loads of rubbish from the plot I'm rescuing... drank coffee and planned whats going where ...

Oh, and installed a bird feeder or two

[cptncrackoff]

Went and had my first ever casting lesson..Learnt loads!

Put the second lot of earlies in up the allotment, two weeks after the other half went in..
But of weeding!
Picked some rhubarb.
Back home, knocked up a batch of compost, sowed runner beans, watercress, sweet corn, pumpkins..
're-lit the greenhouse heater, and turned it down slightly for tomights impending frost!

[Gillykat]

Just found whiteflies taking up residence on my lemon drop chillies (weirdly on nothing else... that I can see!) so have squashed what I could an sprayed with some soapy / oily water. It worked on the blackflies last year so keeping fingers crossed.

No wonder they'd stopped growing!

You need some French Marigolds next to them ~ Gilly's cure for everything


What did I do today? Not a lot despite the sunshine Had a pile of stuff indoors that desperately needed done (to post off tomorrow) but got it all cleared and can now get stuck in to the allotment tomorrow morning after work Got a few seeds to sow, bulbs/corms etc to start off in modules (calla liles etc) and my veggie plot to finish weeding. Thankfully not many weeds so far, just seedlings really, but I want to get them removed before they start to grow properly and take over like last year!

[Snadger]

burnt loads of rubbish from the plot I'm rescuing... drank coffee and planned whats going where ...

Oh, and installed a bird feeder or two

Hello NTG, where the heck have you been hiding? Nice to have you back anyway.

[Baldy]

Third weekend spent trying to dig out all the autumn rasperries that I foolishly planted in a bed - could'n't harvest or weed them = so plant on the edges of your plot... Peas will maybe go in next weekend

Balders

[Frana]

Finished laying a new path up the centre of my plot using some reclaimed 3x2 safety safety slabs - boy they are heavy blighters - 10st each apparently!

[Cadalot]

Planted 91 potatoes in 4 beds and 5 buckets http://cadalot-allotment.blogspot.co...ng-sunday.html

[veggiechicken]

Well I'm thinking of starting a bog garden.

No problems you taking a clump of it Snadge.

Would blueberries do well in a toilet planter or would the need a larger pot?

Blooberries would be perfect or what about some loopins?

[Containergardener]

Hid In Greenhouse from mil.
Sowed...blue cornflower, sweet pea , runners..more..think I've gone runners daft, dill, forget what else.

[1Bee]

Dug and cultivated patch for onions until it went dark, then sat on my chair in the dusk and relaxed.

[Containergardener]

Must've been warmer there 1bee , brrrrrrr blowing a gale (cold one) here

[Lisasbolt]

Today i have finally cleared most of my massive u shape bed, pulled up some PSB as was totally infested by greenfly!! i had already got the best out of it.
Layered the empty bed with manure (rotted) and compost, it looks so dark and lovely ready for planting.
Given my newly potato heads a good watering
Potted on some tomatoes and peppers
Harvested some massive cauliflowers, i do not know what to do with

and got the 100 odd red onions which are starting to throw up seed head only just, realised that i will make some red onion chutney, shame they didn't end up bullying up.

oh and what i have forgot to mention is that i have about 30 some sort of pumpkin/squash that got left last year and now all the seeds have popped up near the chicken area, so leaving it so se hoe it goes.

[Ryleh]

Had to re-sow some of my tomato's due to a cat related incident that wiped out about a third of my plants. So they are now nice and snug in the propagator.

I constructed 3 wigwams and a A frame at the allotment for my peas/beans to climb up