What I did today - 2019

[Mark_Riga]

Planted out 40' of peas seedlings from 4 seed trays. Watered everything in pots. I'm a bit knackered now. Seem to be permanently knackered these days.

[sarah9786]

I love the bag for life idea (predictive text suggested Nag for life and obviously I'm all for that too, it's how I get my lovely husband to rotavate for me and shift manure in the barrow) might try that as I'm quickly running out of pots and have a whole conservatory that could be filled up with tomatoes in bags for life...thanks for the inspiration! X

[Guest]

Trimmed and tied in the grape vine. Yes it is rather late and it wasn't very impressed with me.
Hacked back most of the buddleia hedge
Cut back one will bed and filled a jar with cuttings.

Not sure if I can manage another stint out there

[Greenleaves]

Nothing on the new plot today apart from pegging and stringing the boundary, adjacent plot holder might be mythed as they used my plot as a short to their's.

As much as I have enjoyed the sunshine i dont mind the forecast rain later in the week as the ground is very dry.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out sweet peas and some of the nasturtiums.

[Jay-ell]

Prepped the squash bed, digging out the weeds, digging in bokashi, spreading manure and rigging up the gallows - nice hi vis Day-Glo yellow paracord.

Sowed some Crimson Flowered Broad beans.

Watered and fed the overwintering onions, shallots and garlic.

Got talked to by the son of one of the new plot holders - who likes chicken burger with mayo and ketchup but not mustard, never pretends to cry but cries for real - unlike his dad who only pretend cries. No one has secrets if they have kids.

The red potato onions are starting to put up their shoots - all still present and accounted for the grass mulch has stopped the birds scattering them around.

The garlic is looking fatter than last year (all three varieties) so I'm hoping for a reasonable crop this year. I'll keep feeding them when I'm down.

Having said that I had a bit of a mishap - one of the comfrey buckets that I had stuffed with the last of last year's leaves went for a Burton, spilling a litre of the black stuff onto a patch of weeds.

Very aromatic around the plot after that. Still got another bucket.

Speaking of comfrey, the plants at the front have definite offsets that should be easy to par off (rather than splitting the established crown) so I'll extent the planting under the hedge. The existing ones under the hedge are doing well.

[Small pumpkin]

Gave the front garden a good going over. Weeded, pruned, ripped out dead stuff, defined the edge again ( not in the same place as they were, the lawn is growing and the beds are shrinking ).
Took some cuttings and planted them in a fish box.
Planted a couple of flowerie things out things.
Weeded the asparagus

[kitty12345]

More digging new beds and getting perennial weeds out
Planted out more nasturtiums
Planted out beetroot and sweet peas
More weeding in between rows

[bramble]

Spent most of the day digging and weeding in my sons garden.
They took out a hedge about six months ago and just left the ground as it was.
Fast forward to now and we are talking thistles, dandelions, creeping icy, creeping buttercup and some other weeds I never knew existed.
Job of clearing is done but now need to dig and sow grass seed even though its late in the year.
Very achy muscles but feel it's a job well done.

[SarrissUK]

I haven't been on the allotment for two weeks now, and was eager to get back up there today. So I grabbed a tray full of pots with chard that's ready to go out, pack up, applied sun cream and went to first stop for a van full of horse manure
In full sunshine, that got me hot and bothered, so got to the allotment, very ready for some cold water and a break.
I then cracked on with weeding the potato patch, which was still under fleece and wow, the weeds had grown so big! haha I knew that patch would be weedy, as it has all the soil that was previously on top of all the carpet covering the entire plot. Got it weeded and my lovely spuds are making a showing too
I planted all the chard, topped up the bed that is almost the full length of the new plot where grass was coming through with some of the horse manure. I collected lots of nettles and threw that in a bin, which I then topped up with water. I covered the inside beds in the new polytunnel (that doesn't have a cover on yet) and weighed them down with big pieces of wood.
I picked out the plastic sheets I will use to repair the greenhouse, put them in the van so I can cut them at home with a jigsaw. A handsaw was not going to work. I tried! LOL
I watered all the fruit trees very well as the ground is cracking around them. It is sooo very dry up there. In fact, everything got a good soak. I'm so pleased there was a hose in great condition on the plot when I took it on.
Went home and sowed more seeds, more flowers, and more beans. Cleaned up the kitchen as I can now definitely move the potting on and sowing into the garden, did all the pots and cooked tea. Now I'm pooped and a slight shade of pink on my face

[Baldy]

Co*ayne gardening ^^^

[Baldy]

Was a good day. Lots done. Worried about mis-speaking. Will let you know tomorrow once less likely to be told off... ��

[Jay-ell]

Woke up at the crack of noon when the postie dropped off the solar powered pond air pump - thinking I might try msking some manure tea on the plot.

Sowed a tray of sweetcorn, a tray of lazy housewife/blue lake beans, a tray of adzuki beans and a tray of Flambeau Dwarf Runners and Lupini.

Only growing the Lupini because I have the seeds.

Only have the seeds because they were reduced the other year.

They really look like they are a faf to prepare

Any nite nite - I'm off back to bed.

[bario1]

Planted out some Spring onions, did some watering, sowed some sweetcorn, picked some kale and asparagus for tea.

[Small pumpkin]

Mantised beds 7 & 8
Thinned out parsnip seedlings
Took cherry tree cuttings
Got barrow uncovered, gave it a clean, re-wrote signs, put some sales plants in it and put it out.
Uncovered and weeded beds 2,3,6,9 ( yes I did 9 a couple of days ago, silly me though it would be just the edges needed weeding, not under the weed fabric as well....I was very wrong! )
Dug over bed 2 under the permanent bean frame.