What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[quanglewangle]

Prepare my "squash ridge": turn out the year-old compost bin to make a ridge, then cover it with last years dug-out greenhouse bed.

Up against a south-facing wall should support courgettes, butternut and kabocha. Plant them out in a few days.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Plan April sowings - done
Sow flower seeds (Calendula, Antirrhinum), beetroot - done except beetroot
Take peas to allotment - done
Mow lawns if dry - done
Weeding - done some
Watering - done
Harvest lettuce, baby spinach, rhubarb - done except rhubarb

Also trimmed some grass edges at allotment and brought a pot of compost in to warm for cucumber

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Take lettuces to greenhouse
Tidy up in greenhouse
Weeding

At allotment
Plant Desiree potatoes
Plant out 2nd lot of peas
Weeding
Watering
Trim more grass edges
Harvest romanesco, leeks, rhubarb

At home
Sow early cucumber, beetroot
Rearrange plants under lights
Decide if and how to protect apricot tree from frost
Weeding
Watering
Harvest carrots

[quanglewangle]

Prepare my "squash ridge": turn out the year-old compost bin to make a ridge, then cover it with last years dug-out greenhouse bed.

Up against a south-facing wall should support courgettes, butternut and kabocha. Plant them out in a few days.

Done

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Take lettuces to greenhouse - done
Tidy up in greenhouse - done some
Weeding - done some

Also planted a couple of buckets of potatoes and covered with plastic.

At allotment
Plant Desiree potatoes - done
Plant out 2nd lot of peas - done
Weeding - done some
Watering - done
Trim more grass edges - no
Harvest romanesco, leeks, rhubarb - done plus lettuce and spinach

Also put up a net windbreak to shelter the peas from the northerly blast and covered some of the strawberries with plastic sheet to protect from frost.

At home
Sow early cucumber, beetroot - done cucumber
Rearrange plants under lights - done
Decide if and how to protect apricot tree from frost - tried but decided the wind and cover combination would do more damage than the frost
Weeding - done some
Watering - done
Harvest carrots - done

Also moved some of the strawberries with flower buds under cover.

Monday jobs (weather permitting)
Check for wind damage
Sow beetroot
Weeding
Trim grass edges at allotment
Harvest leeks, carrots, lettuce, spinach

[Penellype]

Monday jobs (weather permitting)
Check for wind damage - done
Sow beetroot - no
Weeding - no - too cold
Trim grass edges at allotment - no, ditto
Harvest leeks, carrots, lettuce, spinach - done

Decided I would rather stay inside today as although it looks gorgeous out there in the sunshine, it is vey cold and keeps snowing.

[Jungle Jane]

I’ve got about 75 tomato seedlings to pot on,I’ve just washed about 30 pots to get started but I might use the pots for some sweet peas & nasturtiums too

[quanglewangle]

I’ve got about 75 tomato seedlings to pot on

Seventy-five? Are you in hock to the mafia tinned tomato syndicate?

I'm growing six and we usually give away loads of fruit

[Mr Bones]

Hope to get the compost turned today. Intended to do it yesterday but my lotty neighbour put in a rare appearance and was already working her plot just downwind from my compost bay. I didn't think it would be fair and neighbourly to swamp her in compost steam.

[burnie]

Potted up some more chillies into final pots and potted on half the tomatoes into half litre old yoghurt pots, they will go direct into the greenhouse soil after this move in a month or so .

[quanglewangle]

I was intending to dig out the Rosa Rugosa.

Dug through water pipe!

Big flood. Found stop cock. Local hardware store gave me 10 minute plumbing course and supplied a stop-end

Waiting for real plumber.

Bah!

[Mr Bones]

^ Ouch,, commiserations QW.
Hope to top another couple of beds with compost. Won't take long but the 12x6 finishing bay is piling high and could do with making a bit of space.

[Penellype]

I was intending to dig out the Rosa Rugosa.

Dug through water pipe!

Big flood. Found stop cock. Local hardware store gave me 10 minute plumbing course and supplied a stop-end

Waiting for real plumber.

Bah!

Not good. I hope you get it sorted quickly.

[Penellype]

Nothing much happening since Monday due to a combination of freezing cold weather and loads to do at work requiring me to be at the computer. Unlikely to be much better in either respect over the weekend.

Have harvested rhubarb, PSB, carrots, lettuce and spinach, opened the covers when sunny and kept most things watered.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check peas for germination
Water peas and lettuces in greenhouse (if still alive)

At allotment
Open and shut covers
Watering
Harvest PSB, lettuce, spinach

At home
Open and shut covers
Watering
Check sowing list, sow peas and anything else desperate
Harvest carrots

[quanglewangle]

Not good. I hope you get it sorted quickly.

Thanks, yes all OK.

I'm a theoretician and a bit of a duffer in practical matters but it's close-knit here: neighbours had stop-cock key, and hardwear/builders merchant took time show me how to cap the end. Turns out it's only the garden supply so we still have water.

Plumber was here quickly and said my stop-end would last until he got back to do a proper job.

[Mr Bones]

Take a temp reading of the latest compost batch started on Thursday and aerate it. This will be it's first turn and the first one is usually an unpleasantly smelly and steamy job.