What I did today - 2019

[Chestnut]

Pruned a shrub, put 1 outdoor tomato in it’s pot by the back door, half filled the next pot with second hand compost then scurried indoors when the heavens opened.
Hoping to get the next 3 tomatoes in, between the showers, and make a bit of space in the GH to get peppers and chillies planted up later on.

[Snoop Puss]

More watering, more weeding. To add a bit of variety, earthed up Laurette potatoes.

[Matt94]

Attached guttering to the greenhouse and connected them to the water butts before the rain started. Pinched out the tomato “armpits”. Checked on the seeds I showed last week, the Pak Choi and kale are through.

[Florence Fennel]

Planted out more dwarf beans and weeded both bean beds. Planted Virginia's in a trough

[Small pumpkin]

Isolated some mystery chilli flowers for seed saving ( just in case there's something exciting, thanks for the idea toomanytommytoes )
Did up some salad bags and tuck them up to the honesty shop.
Sown seeds.

[veggiechicken]

Planted all the rooted tomato armpits in random spots around the garden.
Planted, a little more carefully, a Black Icicle and a Thompson's GreenGrape alongside 2 Wild Tomatoes and 2 Broad Ripple Yellow Currants as part of my "Are Wild Tomatoes blight resistant" trial.
Pulled out more of the parsnip buckets in the trampoline frame and put them in a corner to go to seed.
The woodchip that surrounded them has broken down and should make good compost, when sieved.
I'm going to modify the wire surround and turn it into a big compost bed.

Planted 4 begonia tubers that I bought months ago and "put somewhere safe".
Intermittent rain interfered with play.

[Jay-ell]

Harvest most of my garlic. Better than last year but could still be better. I would have liked to leave it in longer but the rust had completely taken over.

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Planted out some sweet basil, red basil, coriander, Shungiku, Red Chard and Little Gem.

Planted out a Vietnamese Coriander in the greenhouse now that it's stopped being dead.

Took some cuttings of the Taunton Deane kale and poked them into MPC as the ones in water didn't work.

Harvested some leek scapes.

Went home.

Cleaned off the garlic.

Dashed back to the plot in my slippers and PJs later on as I had left the camera there.

Popped the garlic onto a frame to dry.

[1Bee]

Thanked heaven for physiotherapy ultrasound treatment, which means I'm still mobile.

Planted out my orphaned tomato plants in the covered bed. I'll have to stop them at about 2 feet high, but I should get something. Cleared out a planter in our backyard and took the spent compost to the plot to top up some raised beds. Sowed more runners and sugar magnolia peas, the first because the planted out runners are yellow and stopped, and the seed I've already sowed is getting hammered by something when it raises its head, the second because a combination of weevil and sparrows has hammered the first sowing of peas. Netted.

Swiped at some unruly tall grasses with my new (old) grass hook, which is rapidly becoming my new best friend. Perfect for knocking back the edges of paths and stopping the wildlife edges becoming an obstruction.

In the backyard, pulled out the old wash copper and cleaned it out. Started demolishing the crumbling brick surround, and discovered my boys' idea of the most fun thing to do on a weekend is demolition. Attempted to contain said activity within non-lethal parameters.

[bikermike]

A weekend of planting out
- beetroot
- asparagus crowns
- sweercorn
- swiss chard
- oca (bought and saved yams)
- leeks

Harvested some garlics, still have a bunch to go. Will deffo do them again.

Planted in loo rolls some chitted beans to make up for the nibbled ones. I'll loo-roll up the others today i hope.

[Mudsweatandtea]

At the plot, I built bed 8 today, got some beans transplanted into it. Covered carrot and root veg bed in enviromesh and took the weed suppressant off the corn and squash bed (it's retaining too much water with all the rain and it needs some evaporation) as a couple of the squash had rotted roots. As such came home and ordered some plugs (3 walthams butternut and 1 galeux d'eyesine). Raked between the rows and did some weeding. More bush lopping, chopping and bagging.
On the home front did some tidying and weeding.

[bramble]

Weeding, growing so fast with all the rain.
Planted out lettuce.
Planted out bedding dahlias.
Dug up a few heads of garlic, just to check.
Watered all the greenhouse plants.
Pinched out tomato side shoots.planted out the last of the left over summer bedding plants.
Continued to tie in the sweet peas which are flowering nicely.

[Chestnut]

Sowed some beetroot, turnips and salad leaves.
Tipped water out of the seed trays which are hardening off outdoors
Potted up some spare lupins

[veggiechicken]

Planted 6 MFB with Angelle toms - 3 from scraped tomato seeds and 3 from a Seed swap. there's a thread about them somewhere!
Did some weeding along the paths as they're suffering from Montbretia and Vinca encroachment. Pesky stuff. OK in small doses but it doesn't know when to stop!
Felt a tickle on my neck, thought it was my hair first. The tickle moved down onto my back. No idea what it was so I rubbed my back against the wall, thinking I could squash whatever this crawly thing was. The tickling stopped..............and a beetle emerged from my cuff and tickled his way onto my hand!! I left him to tickle his way round the garden after his tour of my back!!

[carolefu]

Today I tied up the potato plants to stop them from snapping, as the flowers are just about to show. Checked on the tomato plant - still not sure where to pinch out. So it's pinch, or not to pinch, that is the question . One of the row beans are starting to show, so I started the first string support. The other row haven't started to show yet. Watered all the pots including the potato sacks

[burnie]

Had a bit of a tidy up in the rabbit proofed fenced off bit, these broad beans are nice enough flowers to be in a flower border...……………..