What I did today - 2019

[Bren In Pots]

Its rained all day so I put my chilli and sweet peppers in their final pots and set them up on their self watering system.

[Mudsweatandtea]

Had a nice morning here so potted on some beans and put more seed in. Small strawberries plants pricked out. De-greenflied the peppers, aubergine and blackcurrant. Potted on some squash seedlings. Left newly potted plants out in the rain all afternoon to water themselves in, then into cold-frames and Greenhouse.

[1Bee]

I'm passing myself coming and going at the moment, so excuse me if I miss something or repeat myself.... !

Finished trimming back the hedge for the shed and measured out the base. Shed is 8'x6', but because of the size of the slabs and other issues, the base is going to need to be 9'x9'. Long story.

I estimate the fall across the base area is at least a foot *sob* so I've got a lot of earth moving to do. On the plus side, I've needed soil for two builder's bags and to top up the raised beds, and this is soil from under the hedge, so it's GORGEOUS. Digging, sieving and shifting is rather back-breaking, however.

Weeded the un-weeded end of the raspberries and removed the (thankfully pretty rubbish) cane that was in the way of the shed. Fed and watered the four early potato plants that will have to be lifted in a couple of weeks to put the base down.

Mulched the raspberries with newspaper and manure. Planted out three sunflowers and did the same for them.

Realised that I have no bed space left for the Ammi majus so cleaved into the jungle-like waste corner, leveling the weeds and digging a planting hole. Removed about a kg of glass from it. Planted them out in new soil from the shed site, and mulched with - you guessed it - newspaper and manure/green waste.

Watered and weeded a bit.

[1Bee]

Alos:- Visited osteopath who found that most of my little niggles are in fact symptoms of a wider dysfunction of knees and achilles tendon. Since I'm more than twenty years away from retirement, I'm feeling rather too decrepit for my age.

[Small pumpkin]

It's been drizzling all day so not done much outside.
Did up some salad bag for the little honesty shop.
Emptied out the radish fish box and weeded it. The slugs have been partying hard in their. There were a few salvageable.
Weeded turnip fish box.
Sown seeds.
Harvested stuff

[veggiechicken]

Friday is Flower and Feed day so I've:-
Fed the tomatoes, de-armpitted them and tied them in to their supports.
Weeded some of the flower beds near the house.
Dug up some white comfrey before it self seeded, put the roots and seedheads in the green waste bin and chopped the leaves and stalks up and spread them around the rhubarb.
Finally decided to do something with the 800 gladioli corms that have been sitting in the GH since last year. I emptied all the corms into a box, took them to the end of the garden and a very overgrown wild border and threw the corms into the undergrowth. The chances of them actually growing are very slim but, they will no longer be nagging me every time I go into the GH. I don't like them anyway

[roitelet]

Removed all the tops rom the Broad Beans before the black fly really take hold, they are bad this year!

[kitty12345]

Replaced a nibbled tomato plant not many spares left
Sprayed broad beans and runner beans with soap water
Planted another butternut squash
Planted a sunflower and staked it
Did a little digging on a new bed

[ameno]

Finished digging the bed I had earmarked for a grape vine and some strawberry plants.
I thought it would be an easy job, as it was good soil, not too compacted, and there was little horsetail and bindweed compared to other beds. Boy, was I wrong. The grass growing in in was nearly all couch grass, and there was tons of the stuff. Removed a great pile of the stuff from a bed only 1.5m x 1.5m.
I also dug some of a large bed I will be planting squash, oca and other bits and pieces in. Done about 1/3 of that one now.
Then I went back at dusk to plant the grapevine and strawberry plants I had ready.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on late sowing of courgettes, planted out mixed salad leaves.

[hamsterqueen]

Planted climbing French Beans (blue lake), watered, retrieved my husband’s glove which had been buried in my chard bed by foxes - at least it wasn’t a whole seagull wing like last year.

Picked enough salad leaves, chives and parsley for dinner, weeded a bit and then sat in my garden drinking wine.

[hamsterqueen]

I bought myself a super-duper water pistol to battle the aphids, it’s white, bright blue and orange with a pump action.
Picture a dumpy, 62 year old retired hooligan charging about the garden gleefully squirting at plants.
Doesn’t work any better than a staid spray, but I am thoroughly enjoying myself!

[Jay-ell]

Didn't do too much today.

Popped into the shop on the way home and got some white slug pellets and microrhizal additive.

Took 6 bags of grass from the Compost Fairy down to the plot to sort out later.

Checked out the greenhouse to make sure that everything is OK. It is, in fact it's better than OK. It's not too bad.

A quick look around the plot - the cabbage I gave a haircut to the other day had some side shoots growing out now.

May need to resow a couple of the squash plants. If I have any seeds left I'll direct sow them.

The grape vines are getting along nicely. I think
a150 bunches is a tad too much for a vine for I may prune out 80%-90% of the bunches.

[MelanieSW]

Planted out 4 more tomatoes (black Russian and black cherry), put a few cucumber seeds directly in the bed as one my crystal lemons has been cruelly killed by a slug.
Harvested some strawberries (and had them for lunch there and then).
Wandered to the local diy store and came back with more bamboo sticks, and a parasol for the garden (thereby jinxing summer forever).

[SarrissUK]

... and a parasol for the garden (thereby jinxing summer forever).

Oh noes! That explains the weather!!