What I did today - 2019

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on a late courgette then fed and weeded beds, containers and GH.

[roitelet]

Watered squashes and courgettes and then mulched them, removed the straw and trimmed up the first year strawberries watered and fed them and then mulched them with the half rotten leaf mould.

[SarrissUK]

I've done a bit of watering, and decided that the two hydrangeas that I'd potted together in a pot looked daft. Took one out and put it in its own pot - much better!
Picked a few bits, sunning myself for a bit too, but most of the day was spent on cleaning outdoor furniture and painting woodwork indoors.

[bario1]

I noticed there was something weird going on with my tomatoes - one of my bush varieties in a hanging pot was growing very tall, while a couple of cordon toms in the ground were growing low and bushy
I must have mislabeled somehow when potting on, so this morning I had to dig out one of the bush toms and swap it into the hanging pot and vice versa - not easy when the one in the pot was about 3' tall!

[Small pumpkin]

Just for a change its been mostly a chilli day.
Pollinating, feeding, weeding and making more powder.

Fixed the latch on first tunnel door ( it came off in my hand )

[Bren In Pots]

Replanted self-seeded Nasturtiums they seem to pop up all over the place.

[ameno]

Dug the rest of the small bed I started before. Sowed two rows of daikon radishes. Room for one more bed; may put another row of swede in there.
With that, that's all of the veg beds I'll be digging this year on my new allotment.

I still have some permanent planting to go in, though, for which I shall need to dig more. Next job is to dig the bit at the end of the raspberry patch, where I shall plant a grapevine. Then I need to dig out the willow trees at the bottom of the plot, which I shall replace with two chocolate vines.

[Snoop Puss]

Tied up the toms, earthed up some of the potatoes, heaved out a bit of bindweed (I'm definitely on the winning side now) and watered all round. Managed to work out that yes I have planted some spaghetti squash. Wasn't sure, but the leaves are now distinctly different.

Edited to add: Also, hoed around the crispy-looking French beans. They were already a bit chlorotic and really struggled with the heat... I don't hold out much hope for them.

[bario1]

Strung up the last three toms in the polytunnel with baling twine.
Tied in the asparagus ferns that were sprawling all over the paths.
Gave the lawn a drink.
Tied in a couple of raspberry canes.
Pulled up random weeds from here and there.
Dead headed the cosmos.
Misted the cucumbers.

[Small pumpkin]

Watered tunnels
Dead headed nasturtiums in the tunnel.
Lots of weeding.
Tied up some chillies.
Pollinated chillies.
Tied up broadbeans

[ameno]

Started preparing the patch where I plan to plant my second grapevine. Cut the area down to the ground with shears (made a huge pile of cuttings), and then managed to dig about a third of it. Faster progress than I was expecting, seeing as I was only digging for about an hour and a half.

In less happy news, I discovered what is killing my young swede plants. I found one wilting badly and pulled it up, and it had cabbage root fly. They've been covered with mesh for about 10 days now, so I'm hoping the eggs were laid before I covered them, rather than the flies having gotten in somehow (which would mean all my other brassicas are also at risk).
I've sown some more, this time in modules at home. I'll give them a head start before planting out.

[Snoop Puss]

Gosh, everybody's busy. Me, I just watered, plucked out a few bits of bindweed and earthed up a small row of potatoes.

[Bren In Pots]

Topped up my GH borders with dalek compost, then mulched courgettes, beans and potatoes with grass cuttings.

[ameno]

Covered my leeks and carrots with mesh.
Dug some more of the grape bed. About a third left now. Should finish it tomorrow.

[Snoop Puss]

Watered and called it a day. Got a bad backache.