What I did today - 2019

[chillithyme]

spent hours on the plot, digging and weeding a new bed, didn't get very far as I was enjoying the weather, and it was tough going, a lot to catch up on, but at least I got my vitamin d

[Greenleaves]

Spent a few hours dividing the new plot into 6 sections, the idea is do a section at a time.

[Small pumpkin]

Planted up hanging basket and a set of 3 retired saucepans.
Moved the delicate mint varieties and lemon thyme out of little tunnel.
Lots of pricking out.
Filled 4 hanging baskets ready for planting my basket of fire chillies.
Watered everything including outside!
Lots of seed sowing.

[SarrissUK]

I received my mushroom leaves today, so planted them up, along with all the mint varieties I got suckered into buying lol I got a freebie rosemary, so potted that up too, but missing the curry leaf plant out of the parcel Best email them!
Got the back garden tubs weeded and everything poop-scooped ready for gardening frenzy over the weekend

[Baldy]

Went to the local GC to pick up a free growbag and 6 border cover plants.
They had some nice scotch bonnets for £1 and a few other chilli 'standards' and a shelf with some more interesting ones for £2.75 - so I picked up a bhut jolokia. Upon chatting with a new plot neighbour a learnt that 'Trinidad Perfume' is a splendid chilli in terms of flavour - and I think it was also in the 'interesting shelf'. I also learned she originates from Trinidad!

Think tomorrow I might beat the rush to the GC and pick up a couple of 'perfumes'

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out lettuce I'd grown in newspaper pots.

[veggiechicken]

Today is Friday and Friday is for Flowers in the VC Calendar.
I brought all the hanging baskets and tubs out of their winter hiding places, gave them a quick top and tail and left them out to soak up the sun.
Delighted to see the cheap dahlias sprouting.

I also grew a Hanging basket tree.

[Small pumpkin]

Chillies had their first day in the tunnel.
Uncovered, weeded and mantised bed 1
Weeded and mantised bed 4
Weeded all the paths
Mowed, strimed and did the edges in veggie garden.
Sorted spare herb pots ( binning or repotting ).
Planted 4 basket of fire chillies in hanging baskets.

[Chippy Minton]

Today has been potting on day..
Tomatoes
Aubergines
Cukes
More tomatoes
Peppers
Melons
Some more tomatoes

[Gillykat]

Today was ~ unfortunately ~ a decorating day as we've been meaning to d the living room for *blush* over a year Everything out, sand walls down, fill any holes etc. Tomorrow is a painting day.

Didn't take as long as I expected though so I escaped to allotment for an hour to potter about - dug another bed, moved a few perennials out of polytunnel beds, gave everything a good watering.

Tomorrow I plan to pop up to allotment first thing to sow a few squash & flower seeds before heading home for breakfast & painting.

[muck lover]

Today I emptied out the ‘compost’ ( not really terribly composted) from my new tumbler composter and I refilled it with a mix of grass clippings household scraps and shredded brassica stems and old celery. I gave it a drink of water and cow Muck.
The stuff I took out is only partly decomposed but I put it on a compost heap which has worms in it as I’m sure they will love this stuff. I hope so as yesterday I put a layer of it in my worm bins. We will see...
I’m determined to get this composting going well as I really have a lot of vegetable and fruit material from the house and I don’t want to throw it out - even to the council green waste collections.

[chillithyme]

Today I had planned to do some more digging and weeding of the new bed, but instead I sowed a few more seeds and went on a hunt to replace a broken garden fork

[kitty12345]

Finished digging bean bed. Dug out my favourite couch grass, horsetail and bind weed.

Did some bed edges too so looking slightly tidier.

Watered garlic and onions as the soil has cracked for weeks now and we have four days of hot weather.

Weeded garlic and onions. More to continue tomorrow.

Spread chicken pellets on beds that are ready.

[Jay-ell]

Last of the shallots went in today - Hermine white skinned. Mulched them and the second and third patches if garlic with bag of grass cuttings the Compost Fairy left yesterday.

Sowed my parsnips, hamburg parsley and split up one of the Earch Chestnuts into 16 smaller plants which were transplanted out and well Watered. First time I've split one up so keeping an eye on how the do. The parent plant was in for two years and gave a small pile of tubers (I was waiting for it to die back but it didn't) so I'm looking to see what I get off these after one season. I've three other plants which will be transplanted and split next time (although I'll, probably split them into less clumps)

Weeded the annual Oerprei bed.

Gave the overwintering alliums a tonic of comfrey feed - will be doing that once or twice a week for the next couple of months, along with the summer alliums once they've grown.

[Small pumpkin]

Tidied big tunnel
Moved salad bar back outside
Pricked out some tomatoes from the heated propagator
Planted some spuds I found growing in the darlek
Potted up 14 chillies into final pots ( only 44 to go! )
Chillies had another day in the tunnel
Worked out which chilli in which pot and location in tunnel
Veg trays had their first day out hardening off.