What I did today - 2019

[Jay-ell]

Planted out a few more bits in the greenhouse - aome Adzuki beans, two sweet potatoes, okra, and a lemon verbena.


There's the Vietnamese Coriander and the Peruvian Black Mint to sort out in there and possibly the red malabar.

The Vietnamese Coriander died so I'm giving it a little time to get better before I transplant it.

The Peruvian Black Mint has just germinated and the Red Malabar is steadfastly refusing to germinate.

Almost cleared out the bed to plant the sweetcorn and oca into tomorrow - I say almost as I've left in some salad burnet, rocket and a couple of parsnips which I sowed the seed for last year and only just came up this year.

I want to see how the parsnips do. I might try sowing them in November this year to see if that helps.

The Chard started to bolt so I cut back the plants and harvested 2 bags for life worth of chard. Another patch of chard to do tomorrow.

[veggiechicken]

Today was the turn of Bed 2B - this one is mostly fruit bushes.
Did a little pruning of the jostaberries and blackcurrants. Shooed the woodpigeons off the redcurrants - several times.
Pulled out more Stickwillie and white comfrey. Both these plants have sticky seeds that cling to the dogs' fur. I spend a lot of time unpicking them.
Sowed Basil in the GH beds to see if it keeps whitefly at bay.
The highlight of the day was finding an almost ripe raspberry.....one of the taste sensations I wait for each year. That tangy velvety taste that only a raspberry has. Wonder how long I'll have to wait until I find the next one.

[Jay-ell]

Well, you can cross that off your bucket list for this year VC

[ameno]

Managed to dig a lot today. Got all of the main bed and a couple other bits on my allotment dug, weeded and fertilised with poultry manure. Tomorrow I shall plant them up.
Just in time, too. I go on holiday on the 5th, and need to get all these plants in before I go away.

[bikermike]

Watered. Bought plants (courgettes, cauliflower, swiss chard (wasn't planning on, but it was a block of 11 in the 1 pound bargain bucket) For a completely unrelated project, cut aluminium angle on a mitre block. Got it wrong - every possible permutation but the right one. Watered the plot agin.

Peas and mangetoute are coming up. Sweetcorn looking good in the gh. Parsnips are still messing about...

[bario1]

Planted out a cucumber in the polytunnel bed and two Maskotka toms in hanging pots/baskets.
Tied back the tops of my peas to the supports as they look like they could flop and break in the wind (a couple already have).
All this drizzle and rain we've been having means the weeds are growing unchecked. The plot looks a mess.

[bikermike]

Today was the turn of Bed 2B - this one is mostly fruit bushes.

the Shakespeare bed?

[Bren In Pots]

Finished erecting my bean frame and planted out Serbian and Scarlet emperor Beans,
put up the brassica cage, weeded then planted Sprouts, PSB and Kale.
Planted pot grown spring onions, and the last thing for today potted on salad bowl lettuce.

[Gillykat]

Good day today.....I finally sussed out how to pull my finger out!!!

Checked seedlings in greenhouse & watered them

Shifted a ton of soil off tarpaulin and put back onto beds....bonus being no weeds underneath so that will be easy to weed & dig later this week

Started to pull up nettles & willowherb that seem to have grown a foot over the weekend! Cleared two beds in polytunnel raised area and along side of greenhouse.

Sorted through pots and containers with various flowers and perennials in them....repotted any that needed it and will do an inventory tomorrow (too knackered today!) and finally got around to chucking empty pots of weedy compost onto compost heap.

Started at 12.30 and left at 4pm......then spent half an hour chatting to John & Pam a couple of plots up

[Jay-ell]

Planted out the sweetcorn. Takes longer than you think - once round to add the manure, once round to add the ca es, once round to plant the sweetcorn and once round to plant the oca.

A bit of an experiment to see if oca can act as ground cover under the sweetcorn or if they'll compete for nutrients and water.

There's also a couple of parsnips, a celery plant, some salad burnet, rocket and scorzonera to add variety.

Tied up the kiwi and the grape vines. Fruit is looking hopefully on both.

Tied up the toms.

Through hot stinking grass on the paths.

[veggiechicken]

Weeded Bed 3C - the carrots are about to flower.
Also weeded in the peach/nectarine roofless tunnel. Quite a few nectarines forming, despite the leaf curl.
Sowed 6 types of CFB and started puzzling over how many different plants I actually manage to grow from seed to fruition. A lot of them don't make it. Must do better. Started a thread (for a change ).
Planted out 5 yellow courgette plants and some more DFBs in the half barrels. Stroked the silky courgette flowers encouragingly.
Tied in the tomatoes.
Gave away 4 windowsill size toms to a flat-dweller.
Edged bed 21B with Dwarf curly kale seedlings. They'll look good until the chooks spot them.
Watched 2 ladybirds.............use your imagination!!

[Stan79]

Planted out some asparagus.
Planted another tomato plant in the greenhouse.
Tied in the tomatoes and pinched out the side shoots.
"Planted" some of the side shoots to see if they'll take.
Watered the greenhouse.
Planted out two more french beans.
Earthed up the spuds.
Watered the spuds.
Did a bit of weeding.
Watered the courgettes.
Cut back the comfrey from around the plot and stuck it on the compost heap.
Took the netting off the top of the fruit cage and replaced the bent poles from the winter snow then reattached the netting.
Mowed inside the fruit cage and hand weeded under the fruit bushes and inside the raspberry beds.
Watered the fruit bushes and raspberries.
Tided up the rhubarb.
Cut the grass.
Pruned the front hedge.
Hand weeded under a rose from my wife's late Grandma.
Put some excess tomatoes out for sale.

Great day!

[Chestnut]

Finished demolishing a ‘dwarf’ (10’) leylandii
Planted out a tray of beetroot seedlings
Started weeding soft fruit area
Planted out a tray of nasturtium seedlings
Gave away 3 artichoke seedlings
Watered GH at allotment

[ameno]

Sowed my pre-germinated french and runner beans (second time lucky).
Planted out my sweetcorn.
Sowed some carrots and swede.
Planted out six pepper plants, ten oca plants, one tomato, three squash, three sweet potato, two watermelon, and my one surviving horned melon at the allotment.

[carolefu]

Today, before the forecasted rain happens, I planted both a row of runner & climbing beans in one of the raised beds. It might be a bit controversial, to plant two sorts of bean in the same raised bed, but lets see what happens . Fed the tomato plant & potted up the remaining marigold plants to place next to said tomato plant. Topped up the compost with 2nd earlies, with a feed of potash granules. Watered in the beans, & watered the potato bags. And last, but not least, found a golf ball in the backyard, which one of the moggies is happily with around the house