What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[SarrissUK]

Nothing but work on my uni essay. All weekend. Boohoo

[Vegi potager]

At last, time to go into the garden Sunday...
sowing carrots, radish, beetroot, chard, sunflowers, other green leafy stuff, more peas, sweet peas.
Harvesting chard and lambs lettuce for lunch. To go with my, sadly shop brought, toms aubergine and peppers Oh for it to be August already!
Potting on peppers and anything else that looks promising (thyme etc?)
Serenading the seedlings while checking they survived the last couple of nights chill and today's hail.
Feed the garlic, they have survived the winter so time for a boost! I grow them in containers instead of my clay soil. and possibly throw some Chicken poop pellets under the roses etc.
Check the pond for signs of life other than the expected billion x n3 midge larvae. While drinking tea.
Sound track: Beach boys, always good for a sing along

[Chestnut]

Hoping to sow a few more seeds in the gh, before setting off about 9.30 to join rest of the family for lunch

[Vegi potager]

Friday jobs
At home
Mow lawns
Try to finish lawn edge
Sow carrots
Weeding and deadheading
Watering
Harvest carrots

Blimey! those are fast growing carrots

Enjoy

[Penellype]

Blimey! those are fast growing carrots

Enjoy

They are last year's carrots, in need of eating now as they are starting to regrow. They were sown in April 2018 in a 30 litre bucket, variety Nantes Frubund. I grew 10 buckets of carrots last year - I like carrots

I see what you mean though, sowing and harvesting on the same day...

[Gillykat]

What I intend to do tomorrow:

Go to council to see Bill and ask...no TELL (!).....him to give me the 2nd allotment I've been promised since January 15th! I know the neglected plot I want too...four doors up from mine AND, most importantly, has a chicken coop & large run already in place and a shed, polytunnel frame and raised beds. Apparently the previous tenant let it get all neglected as all he did was keep chickens and ducks on it (lovely fertilised soil! ) but the chap before that had it lovely with fruit bushes (which are still in place, just overgrown with weeds) and a lawned area & veg beds. It has a lot of promise so I'm going to see Bill, offer him the rent up front and ask him to send me the paperwork via the post I WANT THIS PLOT!!!!! *stampsfoot*

Other jobs.....

Sow a few brassica and salad seeds (haven't decided on varieties yet as need to go through seed box)

Continue transplanting perennial flowers from raised beds into ground.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs and snails to chickens - done
Water plants in greenhouse - done
Put up pea supports - done
Fill hotbed - done
Weeding - not really

At allotment
Keep on top of horsetail - in progress
Cut back more nettles - no
Fill hotbed for melons - done
Check watering - done
Harvest lettuce, spinach, PSB/brokali - done

Also cut back the flowering shoots on the brokali so it doesn't seed everywhere

At home
Mow lawns - no
Try to finish lawn edge - no
Sow carrots - no
Weeding and deadheading - done a bit
Watering - done
Harvest carrots - done

Also potted up 2 tomato sideshoots and brought more compost indoors to warm up for potting up tomatoes.

Monday jobs
Pot up Balconi tomatoes
Get compost to top hotbed
Mow lawns
Weeding
Watering
Harvest lettuce, spinach, carrots

[Small pumpkin]

Good luck Gillykat, give Bill ell

Today will be moving lots of chillies & sowing a few seeds.

[Gillykat]

Good luck Gillykat, give Bill ell

Oh I will There's currently no padlock on the plot gate so I don't even need Bill to take me up and show me around (had a sneaky look myself yesterday ) so it's not as if it'll mean him taking time out of his day-to-day work as Town Clerk. I've got the rent in cash too so all he will have to do is go into his office and write me out a receipt today and then post on the tenancy contract via the post.
He's a really lovely guy but as a LOT of people have reminded me....you have to keep badgering him to do things So, as it's been nine WEEKS since I last popped in (and I was 2nd on the list then!) I cannot see any reason why he would refuse.....especially if it means I'll stop pestering him

My days of being a shy bairn are over cos shy bairns get nowt!!!!

[Gillykat]

Well......are you ready for this?

The good news is Bill WAS in the office and I got to see him.

The bad news is that plot I wanted is taken....the guy who's got it has been in hospital but will be back soon.

The good news is.....Bill offered me the plot on the corner opposite my first plot for FREE!

Bad news is.....it's been empty for a couple of years, is pretty weedy (nettles - not a problem!) and has a couple of dilapidated sheds which kids used to go into for a drink and smoke until the council guy put up the fencing and locked them out. Bill said he'll get the council lads to pull the knackered sheds down for me and put in a skip It's also surrounded by herris fencing and the council guy will fix me up with a proper gate. The previous tenant used to keep about 30 chickens on it.

As I said to Bill it must be THE mankiest dilapidated plot on the site BUT I've always thought it's a shame it's been left empty because it makes the site look neglected. Once I get on it I'll plant some climbers up that fencing to 'pretty it up' and crack on with removing nettles and digging it over a bit at a time. I'll have it looking fabulous in no time

I'll pop up there this afternoon and take some photos Part of me is looking forward to the challenge and the other part is saying ''Are you bonkers woman!!!!!'' Trust me.....it's MANKY!!!!!! LOL

[Vegi potager]

somewhat over optimistic, that's me...

I wasn't at all productive Sunday, but I have the day off work Wednesday

Him indoors somehow got a visa and went outside unattended today.

He strimmed the 6 m2 patch of weed and grass (also known as "the Lawn") so I can take that off the list.
Surprisingly he also drilled some holes in a defunct wheelbarrow so I know have a raised bed that I can fill Wednesday, thinking flowers and chives? I have some pansies, Dianthus and cosmos ready and looking for a home.

Time to sow more herbs and set up my outside space for hardening up the toms etc ready for them to get moved in and out the glass house for a week or 2 before finally planting out.

Shop for new wheelbarrow?!

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Pot up Balconi tomatoes - done
Get compost to top hotbed - done
Mow lawns - done
Weeding - no
Watering - done
Harvest lettuce, spinach, carrots - done lettuce and spinach

Also finished straightening the front lawn edge.

Tuesday jobs
Dig horsetail
Weeding
Take rubbish to tip
Sow calabrese, leeks
Harvest beetroot, carrots, PSB

[chillithyme]

Digging and then some more digging and weeding.
Playing catchup with all of the jobs that I had planned to do over autumn and winter for ground prep, the no dig approach is staring to sound rather appealing

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Dig horsetail - done some
Weeding - done some
Take rubbish to tip - done
Sow calabrese, leeks - done
Harvest beetroot, carrots, PSB - done except beetroot, also harvested lettuce.

Wednesday jobs
Weeding and dig horsetail
Sow carrots
Pot up peppers
Plant out turnips
Harvest lettuce, beetroot, carrots

[nickdub]

Off to do a bit of ineffectual pottering - it will probably include planting out some more tomatoes in the poly-tunnel.