What I Did Today Archive 2011

[Loudbarker1]

Picked last of french beans, some outdoor tomatos and harvested a goofd load of pick fir apple potatos.

The PFAs were grown under black plastic, and kept well watered - I was very pleased and the gfroud should b clean. There was some slug damage, bt not as much as I expected - probabyl because at planting i watered with Nemaslug. Next year (if I use this method) I will water with nemaslug evry 4 weeks or so, and/or try mroe slug resistant varieties eg Scarpo Mira. (Blight wasn't a problem)

Also sowed (weekend 3/4 Sept) late turnips, perpetual spinage, Brocolli "Raab" and raddish (french breakfast). Probabyl a bit late for anything this autumn, but shoud be good for early crops of greens next spring.

Next week I will plant overwintering lettuce (Winter Gem, Winter Density) Corn Salad, oriental greens and overwintering spring onions.

[spud_macfurtle]

joined this forum! hello all! great info for a clueless (but learning) veg growing fan.
im finding it hard *not* to harvest one of my crops of spuds! should i? the leaves are yellow and stems etc. all flopped over. somebody pls tell me YES! haha cheers all!

[bethduckie]

Yes!!! Now is the time

[bethduckie]

Weeding today... pesky things. The patch at home has been neglected badly so I apologised to it lots today and took out a bucket of small weeds.

[Newbie]

Picked Courgettes, Lettuce, French Beans & Tomatoes. Binned one of the Courgette plants - just 1 left now, stripped the remaining leaves off my Tomato plants in the GH, dead-headed the Dahlias, planted up two pots of Narcissus "Replete."

[Bren In Pots]

Collected the Worcester pearmain windfalls and some of the apples with blemishes then made lots of apple juice.

Picked some runner beans and cabbage for tea.

[reetnproper]

Cut up the now bare tomato plants and cucumber plants from the greenhouse and chucked them into an empty plastic bucket to wilt a little before I can put them in either my daleks or the brown bin. Now the greenhouse is ready for spraying with disinfectant before moving the dwarf french bean tubs in, to afford them some shelter and protection.

Reet
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[bethduckie]

Weeding......

[T8Ter]

Between today and yesterday, peeled/salted 20kg onions and made 36 jars of chilli onions for xmas (not all for me - most of my friends/relatives expect, no demand, they have them as a present )

[Peppermint]

Worked on a 4 x 30 foot bed. OH cut off the turfs yesterday and I followed down with the first turning over with a fork. We have a lot of rocks and stones so that slows things down. We completed the first forking over today. This evening we are relaxing with half an hour of weeding

[Two_Sheds]

- picked 3kg bullaces and 9kg of sloes with RustyLady
- went back myself and got 4kg crab apples
- made blackberry whisky & 2 DJs of sloe gin
- put new raspberry wine into DJ
- made strawberry jam, bullace jelly and sloe jelly (2 batches)
- collected seeds from my favourite blue salvia
- got loads of kidney & butter beans from the French beans I've had drying out in the gh
- transplanted loads of myosotis from lotty to school gardens
- turned school dalek and pegged off a section for one teacher who's expressed an interest
- was gifted a huge pumpkin which I've plopped in the school veg patch to surprise the kids
- pruned holly & burned the bits on chiminea (pretended the smoke was nowt to do wiv me)
- took more cuttings from school pelargoniums for next year's pots & baskets
- collected seed too, from marigolds & alfalfa
- gave the alfalfa another trim and left the cuttings on soil as a mulch
- composted all the courgette plants & the split summer cabbages
- transplanted self-sown lettuces into more of a straight line so I can find them in winter
- pegged out my paths again, this time with non-breaking (polyprop) string

[Loudbarker1]

A good productive weekend for a change!

Hand weeded one and a half beds (out of 5), and cleared old french beans. These repleaced (with the help of Master and Miss Loudbarker) by Sping onions "winter white bunching", Corn salad Cavallo, and lettuces Winter density and Winter Gem. Drills made, watered seeds sown, covered over and firmed down. Slug pellets on top and then fleece over. There's a good article on use of fleece by Charles Dowling in the latest (October 11) issue of "Grow it". Got rid of lots of stones as well. The weeding helps me think I have got the autumn clear up under way.

Watered cucumbers, soft fruit - I'm slowing down on watering as growth slows down.

Harvested lettuce, cucumber, tomatos, courgettes (Defender just keeps going - the first of 2 Soleil has gone over) carrots (Early nantes- slightly affected by fly despite fleece over) pears (yummy pear cake scoffed for tea) and the very last of the french beans from those I cleared.

Next weeke nd aim is to:
1) Bit more weeding
2) Mow lawn
3) Clear hedge clippings
4) May be plant greenhouse elettuce?
5) general clearing for garden

[perkin]

Pulled up the Striata courgette (the Gold Rush is still going great guns), planted out April cabbage, cavelo nero and early sprouting broccoli using voile curtains to protect them (I knew hanging on to them for the past 10 years - including moving house with them 7 times - was a good idea).

[Newbie]

Over the weekend OH & I emptied the Sweetcorn & Pumpkin bed - harvesting all remaining crops then emptied the contents of both compost bins onto it. We then refilled the Dalek compost bin with corn & pumpkin remains, un-rotted previous contents, Comfrey tops and many weeds from the surrounding area of the bins. The bins are situated at the end of a new bed / recently dug over bank beside the veg beds and this new bed looks a right royal mess at the moment. Needs much, much weeding and a lot of shrubs planting into it. Ah well...

[rustylady]

Took littlest grandson to the lottie for a quick harvest session. Pulled up another courgette plant which has finished, picked sweetcorn, runner beans, spring onions, one peapod and dug some potatoes. Really need to get the other two plants dug up now.