What I did today - 2019

[Snoop Puss]

Mr Snoop watered most of the patch. I did the potatoes and tied up the rest of the toms that needed seeing to. Trivial amount of weeding. Spread a bit of feed about. Hand-pollinated a couple of melons and went looking for female flowers on the squash: a couple on the spaghetti squash and Confection, none so far on the barbara butternut plants.

[Bren In Pots]

Weeded then planted little gem lettuce some in the beds with the spares in a trough. Harvested and Tied back raspberries.
Finally got around to fastening on the GH shading instead of hanging up bits of fleece over my cucs.

[Gillykat]

Watered tomatoes in greenhouse,

Weeded....and weeded and weeded and weeded Sweltering hot, sweating like a pig but happy.....got the front entrance weeded as well as cleared a path to the giant compost heap Going to do the whole plot section by section and should have it completely cleared by the beginning of September

[Scoot]

Got my strawberries and tomatoes to feed tonight. Going to try and get my peas to grasp onto the chicken wire I have provided for them.

[ameno]

Dug out the remaining two willow trees.
Watered and weeded my allotment.

I also earthed up my beetroot, swede and daikon seedings. I always seem to find that they get rather leggy, and I'm always concerned that they won't produce roots if they are flopping over rather than growing upright.
Am I just worrying over nothing? Anyone else have any input on this?

[Chestnut]

Watered, planted out some beetroot seedlings and outdoor cucumbers. Managed to give away a few turnips . Picked broad beans and gooseberries. Not bad for a week night ;-)

[bario1]

This morning I put up my bean wigwam and planted out two bean plants at each cane.
Did a bit of dead-heading, calendula, roses and cosmos.
Cut back the comfrey for the second time this year. The first lot went into a water tank to make feed, this lot just got cut up into the compost bins.
Armpitted the toms and wound them round the strings where necessary.
More weeding.
Filled up the water tank for the poly irrigation.
Hacked back various things that were encroaching on paths.

[bario1]

Took the netting off the cherry tree - it only has two cherries on it, hardly worth the potential risk to wildlife it causes

Make that one cherry

[Small pumpkin]

Pollinated chillies.
Fed chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergine, asparagus, dwarf french beans, pumpkins, squash & courgettes.
Harvested stuff and blanched some of it.

[bramble]

Dug over the garden where I had harvested my potatoes.
The soil is beautiful, really nice and crumbly.
Cut down my gooseberry Bush, except the root which is a job for tomorrow.
Decided to take it out as it's too much work to build a cage to protect it from the birds and squirrels.
Very warm and humid day, still no rain.
Have a good evening all,

[ameno]

Netted my beans, to keep the sparrows off the flowers.
Mulched some more beans.
Cut down the comfrey.
Sowed lettuce, winter purslane, peas for pea shoots, and garland chrysanthemum in pots. Should give plenty of salad leaves.
Planted out the spring onion seedlings I sowed in a seed tray back in May. They seem fine. They a winter hardy non-bulbing variety, too, so should last all winter.

[bario1]

Fed toms, cucs, squashes, onions, leeks etc with a seaweed feed.
Threw some chicken manure pellets down around the asparagus crowns.
Weeded, fed and mulched the brassica bed.
Watered the compost bins.
Picked some courgettes and parsley for tonight.
General weed pulling everywhere.

[1Bee]

Watered. Dug out the last of the charlottes from the raised bed. Watered. Removed 3 trugs of soil, added manure, returned soil, weeding as I went, soaked it thoroughly and planted out leeks and a courgette.

Despaired of ever getting on top of the weeds. Mowed grass. Watered.

Harvested potatoes, baby leeks, onions, peas, courgettes, rocket, strawberries.

[bramble]

Watered all Tom's and peppers in the greenhouse.
It rained on and off all afternoon plus I was babysitting my one year old grandson so nothing garden related this afternoon.
Just done some deadheading and closed the greenhouse doors.
Have a good evening all.

[ameno]

Planted out my burdock plugs.
Put down a few slug pellets around my most slug-prone plants in preparation for tomorrow's rain.

I found some rather large holes in my garden today, too, too big for cats or birds. I suspect a badger is finding it's way in again. That being the case, I did the job I had meant to do two summers ago and (hopefully) badger-proofed the bottom fence (which is the only side of the garden they could get in through in the first place).