What I did today - 2019

[SarrissUK]

Due for a maximum of 35C today, so it will probably get to 37C.

Improvised shade for the most important beds and gave everything else a good drink.

It's really rather nippy here, so I am very envious of your warm weather lolie!

[lolie]

Pulled out a row of peas which were really struggling and replaced them with spring onion off-cuts.

[Can the Man]

I have 4 pea seedlings I started in the poly tunnel a few weeks ago as an experiment for winter peas, they are all about 6” high and each have a pea pod on it, looks like the experiment is working, though I don’t expect to get a flourish of peas.

[lolie]

Finally got to the garden centre where I promptly stabbed myself on a blackberry thorn.

Bought a couple of blueberry plants, mulches for the hot weather, different types of potting mix, and a few odds and ends.

Potted on some tomato plants and some gypsophila. When it cools down later I will plant some stuff out into the garden beds and repot my capsicums into larger pots. If I can be bothered with setting up netting today, I'll move the bok choy and pak choy from pots to a raised bed.

My volunteer tomato which has planted itself in almost pure clay has flowers, so I may yet have tomatoes by Christmas.

Edit. Capsicums have been transplanted into large pots.

Have spread wetting agent on the pots and raised beds and will give everything a good drink in an hour or two. I'm still trying to decide whether mulching my zucchini would just be an invitation to snails and disease.

Edit. Watered everything and planted yarrow and two types of gypsophila out. It's supposed to be cooler tomorrow, so I will improvise some shade for the plant outs and decide what to do about the brassicas tomorrow.

[Chestnut]

^^^I do love the fact that it’s always spring somewhere in the world - that’s brought a smile to my face just thinking about planting out my peppers next year ;-)

Lovely sunny autumnal day here, ground still wet but managed a full morning at the plot, with a bonus hour thanks to the clocks changing this weekend!
Bumped into lots of people I hadn’t seen for ages , finished assembling my 2nd pallet compost bin, and filled it with remnants of old plants, lifted last of turnips and beetroot, and pulled out 3 barrow loads of weeds.

[Can the Man]

I dug out the last of my spuds in the poly tunnel, can’t posy a photo for some reason it is not uploading. I also thinned my carrots and kept the thinking’s for this evening dinner. They are really sweet, about the thickness of a biro.
I also planted out some lettuce plugs and scallions in raised beds in poly tunnel.

[SarrissUK]

I sowed some Cup and saucer plants earlier this year. They weren't easy to get going. The few that grew weren't doing much through the summer, though the vines are lovely. No flowers.
Today I go out in the garden and wow, I have flowers! It's also grown absolutely humongous!!

[lolie]

Checked that everything survived the night and found that one of my Tiny Tim tomato plants is beginning to flower.

A true dwarf variety, the plant is only 14cm high.

[bikermike]

Podded most of the remaining haricots. (I've been out and about all weekend)

[Can the Man]

Thinned carrots

[lolie]

Planted out some flower seedlings. Topped up the tomato planter with more potting mix. Drenched one of the raised beds with hydrogen peroxide in the hope it will help control the fungus gnat invasion.

Some seeds arrived today so I sowed some cherry falls tomatoes, some Lebanese cucumber and some spring onions as well as some impatiens, diascia and dichondra. More seeds should arrive tomorrow.

Transplanted some perpetual spinach and silverbeet seedlings into a raised bed.

There's not much left to do today except tidy up the mess I made.

[Right Shed Fred]

Planted elephant garlic, and flower bulbs.
Mulched some of the raised beds with bought manure and home made compost.

[lolie]

Repotted one of the blueberry plants I bought yesterday and my grand-daughter's geranium plant.

Sowed some Italian parsley and some garden cress and gave everything a spritz.

That's it for the day except for watering later and tidying up the verandah (again).

[Small pumpkin]

Strung up my onions.
Removed the wind brake and its support from pumpkin bed. Also took down the tromboncino climbing frame, Weeded and covered the same bed. Another bed never to be used again.

[Can the Man]

Cut the grass today