What I Did Today Archive 2011

[susieq100]

Yesterday -went to the plot for harvesting purposes and ended up weeding the leeks, pegging out some strawberry runners and watering the celeriac. Did some harvesting too - damsons, greengages, potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, runner beans. At home tomatoes and cucumbers. Then in the evening OH and I went for a walk around our estate - there is a plum tree that grows by the canal - it appears to belong to no-one because the fruit is just left to fall and rot on the ground. So, as I write this I have some plum jam bubbling away in the kitchen! When I was a child that tree would have been 'stripped' of its fruit - these days the kids don't bother.

[Two_Sheds]

- 12 hr day: weeding, planting and harvesting
- composted lots more annual meadow grass, rapidly going to seed
- planted out a few trays of black kale & spring greens
- harvested the first few kilos of sweetcorn
- picked 2 buckets of elderberries & spent 4 hrs stripping them for port
- started off 2 DJs of Blackberry & Elderberry Port
- desperately rearranged the freezer to make room for berries & sweetcorn
- cut 2 sacks of comfrey leaves to make leafmould for next year's tomatoes
- planted out a few dozen winter hardy Lisbon spring onions
- defoliated nearly all the remaining beans, to ripen the beans & expose the baby snails that roost there

[Newbie]

This morning after dog walking i picked 5 large courgettes, 1 cucumber (plant now snuffed it), several handfuls of mixed tomatoes and a good load of French Beans (wigwam snuffed it in the wind). After that i pruned my Blackcurrant bush. This evening in the G.H I disposed of deceased cucumber plant - mouldy & rotten, watered greenhouse, de-leaved the bottom halves of the Tomato plants, potted on two Buddelia Buzz into a larger pot, potted up six mixed Lavendar plants that were delivered this morning, and pricked out 40 mixed Pansies and 40 Plentifall Pansies which were delivered a couple of days ago.

[Florence Fennel]

Planted out 12 cabbages now that they look strong enough to withstand the slug onslaught. I'm trying paper plates smeared with vaseline as collars. Mmm, we'll see. It worked on the edge of the containers, so here's hoping.

[bethduckie]

Picking and digging. Got a weed infested patch that needs digging and levelling, the ground is rock hard and I am feeble! Slow going. And there's bricks and stuff in it, and old bits of disintegrating weed suppressant fabric. And bramble, and ivy. Bah!

[VirginVegGrower]

Logged all day - we had our neighbour's holly down, some branches of yew, pine, lime and oak. Just came in as the heavens have opened. We took the runners down which were decimated in last week's winds. Now we've got it all again. I need to get maincrops up too

[Two_Sheds]

- kidnapped RustyLady and we managed to install a few posts & wires for my blackberry fedge
- planted out a few dozen wallflowers
- pruned the lavenders
- started pruning the huge holly tree

[rustylady]

Got kidnapped by Twosheds and helped her put up some blackberry supports (we aren't allowed to call it a fence ). Stayed over last night, had a nice walk on the beach this morning, and on arriving home this afternoon managed to cut about three quarters of the lawn before the rain started.

[perkin]

Trimmed all the big leaves off my tomato plants (just like Monty told me to), harvested bright red cayenne chillies for the freezer, potted on winter pansies, sowed sweet peas in trays in the gh.

[Two_Sheds]

- ran out of composters again, so upturned and moved a dalek
- pulled up remaining dwarf Frenchies to dry in the shed (they're rotting on the damp ground)
- sowed radish in their place
- put in a row of Senshyu sets
- planted out alyssum & wallflowers at school
- weeded for 3 hrs (loads of chickweed & annual grass)
- made raspberry wine & raspberry jam from the 6 kg of fruit in the freezer

[shona_b]

picked french beans but decided to leave remaining runners for the beans (rather than as whole pods) - alos picked the borlottis that were dried or going soft as well as the dwarf ying yang for drying. Planted 4 rows of shenysu and made a netting "tent" to keep of the pigeons. Watered the pumpkin and harvested a marrow.....basically anything apart from weeding!! Back at home I was really pleased the meteor peas I planted inside are now showing their heads which means yummy pea shoots for winter salads....bought a reduced purple chilli plant at a local garden centre so its on the windowsill too. Harvested a cucumber and some tomatoes for lunch

[Thelma Sanders]

shifted some more muck and took up another bush from the side of the shed, only 1 more to go!
No hedge = more space for veg
Pulled some dying leaves off the beans to help the seedpods dry out, picked some toms to save the seeds for next year.

[Newbie]

Picked Courgettes, French Beans & Tomatoes, started off a batch of Damson Gin & made six jars of Apple & CHilli Jelly.

[sewer rat]

Got very very very wet

[reetnproper]

Pinned up the beans and tomatoes even more securely against the winds - twice.

Found another pumpkin which appears to be happily swelling away but must only be about 6 days old, tops - very unlikey to mature intime for Halloween but flowers are now appearing in abundance on all pumpkin and squash plants !!!

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