What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Penellype]

Too busy at work to do much today - typical as the sun is out! No go tomorrow either

[Penellype]

Work and weather have conspired together to make gardening next to impossible this week apart from sowing a few seeds (did some spinach first thing this morning) and grabbing handfuls of peas and beans. I have managed to keep sort of on top of the deadheading but that's about it.

Friday's jobs (work and weather permitting)
Weeding and deadheading
Cut back potentilla that is overhanging the drive and has finished flowering
Sort strawberry runners and check that they have rooted
Replace finished silene plants on fence with either gaillardia or strawberries, depending on what fits nicely where.
Check lawns and edges and cut if necessary (may wait until weekend)
Check drip trays for flooding
Harvest blueberries and dispose of any attendant caterpillars
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, courgettes and possibly carrots
Check calabrese and beetroot
Possibly harvest some potatoes

[Jonny.D]

Nothing Well not quite nothing, I'm going to be house sitting and intend to use the alone time to meditate

[Baldy]

Have managed to save £450 by comparing a Suricate for car and home insurance purposes. This means a planned studious weekend of reflection has now been replaced. Not over the top you understand... middling shall we say.
Sounds like the weather should be ok tomorrow so I shall head to the plot and work furiously. According to the internet "45% of all the apples grown in the UK are now used here for cider making" hmmm,

[Penellype]

Friday's jobs
Weeding and deadheading - done some
Cut back potentilla that is overhanging the drive and has finished flowering - done
Sort strawberry runners and check that they have rooted - done some
Replace finished silene plants on fence with either gaillardia or strawberries, depending on what fits nicely where. - done some
Check lawns and edges and cut if necessary (may wait until weekend) - no
Check drip trays for flooding - done
Harvest blueberries and dispose of any attendant caterpillars - no
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, courgettes and possibly carrots - done most
Check calabrese and beetroot - ate some beetroot
Possibly harvest some potatoes - done 1 bucket Sarpo Mira which has looked sick almost since it first sprouted and had died down. 0.5kg potatoes from 3 seed potatoes is diabolical for Sarpos

Also sorted out the hotbin compost, which seems to defy gravity by refusing to drop to the bottom of the bin after emptying even when prodded and poked hard with a fork. I now have a little room to put in all this debris I'm creating!

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs
At my friend's:
Tie in greenhouse tomatoes, remove sideshoots etc and feed
Fill self watering trays
Check oldest peas and remove if finished
Weeding
Harvest tub of Charlotte potatoes, courgettes, cucumber and tomatoes

At home:
Weeding and deadheading
Mow lawns and cut edges
Continue removing runners and caterpillars from strawberry plants
Remove peas when finished
Harvest more potatoes
Find somewhere to put buckets of potato compost
Construct net cover for raised bed and move brokali and kohl rabi out from underneath strawberries to replace potatoes
Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, peas, beans, calabrese, blueberries
Check tomatoes carefully for blight (4 Hutton alerts in the last 5 days)

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs
At my friend's:
Tie in greenhouse tomatoes, remove sideshoots etc and feed - done
Fill self watering trays - done
Check oldest peas and remove if finished - not yet
Weeding - done loads including nettles and brambles
Harvest tub of Charlotte potatoes, courgettes, cucumber and tomatoes - done

also planted out some beetroot seedlings

At home:
Weeding and deadheading - done some
Mow lawns and cut edges - no
Continue removing runners and caterpillars from strawberry plants - done some
Remove peas when finished - done
Harvest more potatoes - done 2 buckets of Charlotte for a whopping 2.8kg and 1.9kg (3 seed potatoes each)
Find somewhere to put buckets of potato compost - done
Construct net cover for raised bed and move brokali and kohl rabi out from underneath strawberries to replace potatoes - done
Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, peas, beans, calabrese, blueberries - done some
Check tomatoes carefully for blight (4 Hutton alerts in the last 5 days) - touch wood seem to be ok.

Ran out of time for the lawns but since the forecast was (and still is) for dry until late afternoon, I thought it wouldn't matter. The current radar picture for York says otherwise



Likely busy day at work today so unless I can nip out and cut the lawns at lunchtime I'm likely only to be harvesting a few salads.

[damian1225]

This weeks jobs include taking the pea frame down and removing all the debris of the pea plants, weeding the whole plot as not had much time to be there lately so its a bit of a mess.. continue taking the spuds as and when needed to try and eliminate the need to store so many, sort out the strawberry runners as the plants have had a real boost of late, I moved them earlier in the year so the crop was not very good but the plants have come on leaps and bounds since with lots of runners now, next years will be a bumper crop I think..

[Martin H]

I just had a tonne of topsoil delivered onto my front drive. So today's job is to barrow it round the back and fill my new raised bed. Followed by mixing up cement and fixing the loose paving around it. Then maybe sow some salad leaves.

[Penellype]

I did manage to mow the lawns yesterday as the sun came out after the rain (again not forecast, but no complaints!). Also did a bit of deadheading.

Today's jobs (busy at work):
Check for harvesting: onions, beans, calabrese, tomatoes
Deadheading and weeding

[Small pumpkin]

A bit of an odd mix today
Clean out chickens and ferrets
Tie up dried onions and pull more for drying
Make cucumber chutney
Tidy up salad bar
Make a Perspex display box.
Mow & strim everywhere

[Martin H]

I just had a tonne of topsoil delivered onto my front drive. So today's job is to barrow it round the back and fill my new raised bed. Followed by mixing up cement and fixing the loose paving around it. Then maybe sow some salad leaves.

Done, except that a tonne wasn't really enough so I didn't do any sowing. I'm thinking I'll get a dozen bags from the local B and Q to top it up. Hopefully the quality is as good!

[Penellype]

Tuesday's jobs :
Check for harvesting: onions, beans, calabrese, tomatoes - done
Deadheading and weeding - done some

Put some of the onions that had started to die down out to dry on a rack.

Wednesday's jobs (again busy at work):
Deadheading and weeding
Extend canes for sitting room tomatoes so they don't fall over (again)
Harvest large courgette and make soup
Check everything is secure (gales on Friday, may not have time tomorrow)
Check and water anything that is getting dry.

[damian1225]

Clean out chickens and ferrets

I miss my ferrets, do you work yours or are they pets?, I used to go rabbiting with mine.. happy memories!

[burnie]

I don't plan to do much at all today, might sit in the garden and watch the butterflies.