What I did today - 2019

[Can the Man]

Dug 2 stalks of potatoes, still to soon, I need more patience. The spuds are very small but like lovely round shape and soft skin, will steam nicely.

[carolefu]

Yesterday, I liquid fed the Triffids (climbing beans) & the tomato. The Triffids are doing very canny & already some fair-size beans are appearing - so they will be added to the list of successes. The tomato plant is doing ok - touch wood. I just need some sun to ripen the tomatoes that are already present.

Today, I started to cut back the herbs that have started to 'gallop away'. The herb pots will definitely need a tidy-up. I checked the 2nd earlies. Nothing there in the sacks, but nice dry compost, that will need to be sieved & fertilizer to be added, to be reused. But not to be used for potatoes again. So, it looks like I am going to have a fun-packed Bank Holiday Weekend this weekend :O.

I am already starting to plan for what I am going to grow over the Autumn/Winter & the Spring

[Small pumpkin]

Watered all the tunnels.
Moved more chillies from little tunnel to 1st tunnel.
Tied up a sweet pepper. Sometime over night It thought it was a good idea to have a little lie down!
Harvested stuff.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on 'all year round' lettuce, it's eventually going in the GH border when my toms have finished.
Planted out salad bowl lettuce into gaps in my beds.

[veggiechicken]

My Weedy Wednesday hour attacking Hogweed turned into a full day! I have filled a green waste bin with hogweed, nettles and brambles and chopped and dropped all the fruited loganberry and raspberry canes that were swamping Bed 27. Still a lot of clearance to do but at least I can walk through the jungle.

[ameno]

Removed the dead pea plants.
Dug in a load of compost where the willows used to be, and planted two Akebia (chocolate vines) there.

[bramble]

Spent most of the day in town, needs must.
This evening, watered and weeded.
Picked lots of toms and salad leaves.
Dead headed and saved seeds from sweetpeas, dahlias and tomatoes.

[SarrissUK]

I went to see a man about a house. A house with a smaller garden than it looked in the photos. I thanked said man for letting me in, but seeing as he's been offered full asking price and I was going to severely underbid that, this was going nowhere.

Then I took Effie down the beach for a walk, just around the corner from said house. Gorgeous. The newly started hunt goes on

[Can the Man]

Watered the raised beds in the PT, waters my strawberries which are still fruiting, started on a new outdoor raised bed, got it 2/3 filled before the midges started eating me alive.

[Peteyd]

Today I watered and fed the Tomatoes, Apple Trees, Rhubarb, Herb boxes and raised bed. I also finally got round to planting out my leek plants that had been sitting in a bag for a couple of weeks. For reference, leaving your leek plants in a bag with a little water in the bottom is fine in the short term ( a day or so) but leaving them in there for a couple of weeks doesn't work. They begin to rot down and leave an horrendous smell on your hands that not even fire can remove...

I also ordered my Garlic ready for autumn planting.

[burnie]

Just had a wander round the garden, some things looking a bit tired now, but good crops being produced.

[carolefu]

I only spent 30 minutes in the backyard this morning - early I might add (before 10am :O ) . So, I fed the climbing beans (The Triffids) & the tomato plant. I even gave a little feed to one of the herb pots that I tidied up yesterday. And watered the rest of the pots. I then had a very late breakfast, then I started the propagator off with some herbs. These herbs will be for indoors. Propagator is now up & ready on the dining room windowsill. Hopefully, the moggies will not knock it off.

[Small pumpkin]

Strimmed & raked veggie garden.
Emptied last 3 spud bags.
Watered tunnels
Tied up some chillies
Put all the set pumpkins I could find on broken slabs to keep them off the wet ground.
Collected seeds
Harvested stuff

[Bren In Pots]

Watered and weeded GH
Tied up raspberry canes
Made a start weeding the beds.

[bikermike]

I went to the beach and swam in the sea

I did some watering of the pots in the dark last night after I got back.