What I did today - 2019

[Snadger]

Nowt to do with vegetables but I have spent this morning planning up my pots at home with Polyanthus plants. I have about 10 pots of various sizes which last year were planted up with £30's worth of mixed bulbs.
This year I bought the plants from B&Q which are in flower in punnets of six and were half price.I also bought a bag of horticultural grit and put a 2 inch layer around the plants once planted.
I wasn't sure whether the bulbs planted last autumn would still be viable this year, but was pleased to see the new shoots were evident and to be avoided when planting Poly's.
Some pots have one plant and a couple have 3 plants and 4 plants dictated by sides of pot .The colours tend to be yellow (like the true primrose) but there are two shades of purple too.

[bikermike]

Put in two raised beds.
I am now sitting on the sofa wondering how much y back will hurt tomorrow...

But it's pleasing as they are the last two to do, so i have finished my allotment, a mere 5 years after starting...

[lolie]

Put a few pots of seedlings out in the sun. Probably not going to do much else today.

[bikermike]

Yesterday was a day of tidying - bean frame down and canes put in drying rack, two beds cleared and mulched, sweetcorn down. Even found time to cut the grass.

Best of all, this morning's facebook "on this day" (it finds posts you made from this day in years past), was a photo of the plot from an almost identical angle as I took this year, with 5 less raised beds in it - nice to see the progress.

[bario1]

I also spent a couple of hours tidying yesterday. Cleared away all rotting squash and courgette plants, flowering celery and dead calendula, sweetcorn, half the tomato plants in the polytunnel, sunflowers, and cut back some of the gladioli. It looks a lot better, but still a mess!
Planted out another dozen or so Spring greens in the polytunnel.

[ESBkevin]

Yesterday we finished prepping the bed for onion sets (120) and Garlic (26). Also passed the hoe over some areas. I then took my penknife to try and undo the cable ties holding the bean frame together ( I detest single use plastics) I managed to save about 60% for another go but cut off the remainder.

[lolie]

Pottered around with some diatomaceous earth as I'm having problems with both ants and fungus gnats at the moment.

Everything is starting to germinate now but we're due for 4 days of temperatures in the 30s with one day of 36, so I'm not sure how the newly emerged seedlings will survive the heat.

[bario1]

Another hour of clearing up this morning. Cut back more gladioli and composted them, broke up the mat of weeds, moss and rotten onions covering two of the beds they were in. Cut back all the comfrey that had flowered and flopped all over the paths, as well as some herbs and shasta daisies that had done the same thing. Dug out one of the giant lupins that have swamped my roses this year - I may replant it elsewhere, and hopefully the rose bush it was dwarfing will recover next year
Planted some mini narcissus bulbs.
Still looks a mess!

[AntC]

Made the Christmas cake to a Jamie recipe this year, so should be good although it did seem very watery when shoved in the oven. Will reappear in an hour and a half, so fingers crossed.

The apple in the recipe did come from my last allotment that I gave up a couple of weeks ago, so this post has a small gardening reference!

[Bren In Pots]

Pulled out courgettes, cucs and toms thats finished still got a couple of toms plants left in GH hopfully they'll ripen.

[burnie]

Busy few hours in the garden, lot more shredding done and cut the grass AGAIN, hopefully predicted frosts will slow that down a bit lol.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted 'all year round' and mixed lettuce in the GH border, then sown some more lettuce and land crews in pots.

[lolie]

Ordered more seeds (because of course I did) and some gardening stuff. Completed list of stuff to get from garden centre on the weekend. Transplanted a zucchini seedling out into the big raised bed.

[Gillykat]

First visit for weeks due to illness but spent a happy couple of hours pulling up nettles, thistles and brambles

[lolie]

Due for a maximum of 35C today, so it will probably get to 37C.

Improvised shade for the most important beds and gave everything else a good drink.