What I did today - 2016

[Snadger]

Filled a couple of barrow loads of hoss muck from 'Jasons heap' Spread them on the keyhole bed on plot 24. I intend planting onion Japanese onion sets on this area!

[SusieG]

Filled a couple of barrow loads of hoss muck from 'Jasons heap' Spread them on the keyhole bed on plot 24. I intend planting onion Japanese onion sets on this area!

Oooer Snadger ~ is Jason the horse......? Or does he just have a problem....???

[SusieG]

Last time I mention it, I Promise..........................
Bought some 10mm "F" Profile & edged each tile to help direct the flow to create more of a chain, I think I managed it:

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Lookin' real good BM ..! A work of art ~ especially the cheeky little chap with the pointy hat...........!

[Lumpy]

Boiled up a Golden beetroot the size of a small planet.........

[Snadger]

Oooer Snadger ~ is Jason the horse......? Or does he just have a problem....???

Its an 'in' joke Susie. Jay-els plot is next the main gate. Hoss muck is dumped at the main gate and Jason rightly thinks "Well if no one else is going to use it, I'll give it a good home"
Not when Snadge gets there first though!

[Small pumpkin]

Not a lot today, but I did sort out next years planting plan. Which was tricky because I've rearranged what goes in the each bed not just a bed rotation. Also done a bit more work on the table I'm making.

Due to a lovely surprise today I now have to re - do my planting plan for next year.

[Nannysally99]

Do tell SP

[Jay-ell]

Its an 'in' joke Susie. Jay-els plot is next the main gate. Hoss muck is dumped at the main gate and Jason rightly thinks "Well if no one else is going to use it, I'll give it a good home"
Not when Snadge gets there first though!

You can't just leave a pile of manure outside my gate for two and a half weeks with no one touching it and expect me not to take a bit.

Basically you got there second.

[Snadger]

You can't just leave a pile of manure outside my gate for two and a half weeks with no one touching it and expect me not to take a bit.

Basically you got there second.

You can have whats left now. Its a long way with a wheelnbarrow with a solid wheel on the front to take it to plot 24. I think I spilled more on the bumpy road getting there!

[Small pumpkin]

The weather was good this afternoon so I actually got to play in my garden! So another bed weeded and a nice thick lay of well rotted farm yard manure ( cow doo doo ) then covered. Also found another leg for the table I'm making, it's going to live in the veggie garden ( which is why I keep going on about it )

[hamamelis]

Nipped down the plot, picked the last of the toms off two plants, and cleared the spent plants out.

Picked a few more crookneck squash, and tied up a few more flowers in a last ditch attempt to save seed. Doubt it'll work, it's too late really, but I really want to save seed from them, and the dratted slugs et the previous hand pollinated one I had.

Still trying to decide which bed I should set up for my new strawber y patch, as my current plants (from which I picked a ripe fruit today ) probably only have one more good year in 'em; I think that shall be Sunday's job.

[bramble]

This afternoon I took out all my Sweetpeas as they have just about finished flowering. I Suppose I might have got another week out of them but they started to look very sorry for themselves.
Took alot of tomato plants out as well and now beginning to feel we are really reaching the end of the growing season
My chilli peppers are still going strong and producing well so I think I may give them to my son in law as I already have too many and he loves to cook spicey food. Other than that, well I thought my celeriac was doing well until I dug one up this morning.
Put it this way, I will NOT be growing celeriac again.

[marcofez]

Spent an hour or so down the allotment before going off to work. Had a bag of 50 daffodils, half price from Aldi. So cleared 4 areas up and planted them. Lovely down there, no-one about.

[Jay-ell]

Got to tyhe plot and there was a police car at the gates.



As my bean frames had totally given up the ghost and there was serious danger of the beans flattening my sweet corn I cleared out the bean bed.

Pruned back the vines on the pumpkins so the plants hopefully focus on bulking up the fruits a little bit more before halloween - last year I got 13kg and I'm hoping for more this year.

Planted out some garlic for the leaves and some leeks for the bulbs.

OK, the garlic was Ramsons, Wild Garlic - planted underneath the hedge along the fence line. The leeks are Oerprei and as well as the leek part develop a bulb and baby leeks at the base which can be transplanted - just need to build up a core seed stock.

Also harvested some raspberries.

Had a bean and brandy night - shelling all my beans was made more enjoyable with a couple of brandies and a bowl of raspberries & cream. Ended up with 8 pounds of shelled beans.

[Small pumpkin]

Spent quite a long time measuring my plot, working out where the new tunnel is going. Moved lots of stuff from behind the tunnel, levelled the ground and cut back the hedge ready for a new home made shed. Shredded all the hedge trimmings into the compost. Mowed, will be doing that again tomorrow ( it's very long! )