What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Mow lawns if dry enough - done
Sow calabrese, replacement cabbage, peas - done
Deadheading - done some
Weeding - done a little
Harvest carrots, spinach, microgreens - done

No gardening time at all on Tuesday, just collected water and harvested some rhubarb.

Wednesday jobs (work and weather permitting)
Collect water
Take peas to allotment and plant
Sow more peas, romanesco
Pot up tomato sideshoots
Weeding and horsetail
Deadheading
Harvest spinach, carrots

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Collect water - done
Take peas to allotment and plant - taken but not planted
Sow more peas, romanesco - no
Pot up tomato sideshoots - done
Weeding and horsetail - done a bit
Deadheading - done some
Harvest spinach, carrots - done spinach

Thursday was impossible although I did manage to steal 10 minutes to run round the allotment with the lawn mower.

Friday jobs
Pot up biggest tomato plants
Pot up cosmos, antirrhinums
Sow peas, romanesco
Rearrange indoor plants
Cut grass edges at allotment
Weeding and horsetail
Harvest lettuce, carrots

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Pot up biggest tomato plants - done some
Pot up cosmos, antirrhinums - done cosmos
Sow peas, romanesco - no
Rearrange indoor plants - done for now
Cut grass edges at allotment - done some
Weeding and horsetail - done a bit
Harvest lettuce, carrots - no

Weekend jobs (work and weather permitting)

At my friend's
Take beetroot and cucumber to greenhouse
Water plants in greenhouse
Weeding
Plant out lettuces

At allotment
Continue trimming grass edges
Weeding and horsetail
Plant peas
Harvest lettuce, spinach and any remaining PSB

At home
Pot up antirrhinums, courgettes, tomatoes
Sow romanesco, peas, broccoli
Weeding
Deadheading
Harvest carrots

[Mr Bones]

Two week old compost to hoik out, new compost to get started..

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Take beetroot and cucumber to greenhouse - done
Water plants in greenhouse - done
Weeding - no
Plant out lettuces - no

At allotment
Continue trimming grass edges - no
Weeding and horsetail - done a bit
Plant peas - no
Harvest lettuce, spinach and any remaining PSB - done

At home
Pot up antirrhinums, courgettes, tomatoes - done
Sow romanesco, peas, broccoli - done except peas (need pots)
Weeding - no
Deadheading - done some
Harvest carrots - done

Still struggling with serious lack of time. All I manged to do today was water under cover plants.

Tuesday jobs (weather and work permitting)
Weeding
Grass edges at allotment
Plant peas
Sow peas
Pot up tomato seedlings
Rearrange plants under lights
Harvest spinach, carrots

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Weeding - done some
Grass edges at allotment - no, but did some at home
Plant peas - no
Sow peas - no
Pot up tomato seedlings - done
Rearrange plants under lights - done
Harvest spinach, carrots - done spinach

Also put the net back on the tunnel (although it needs a bit more attention as I ran out of time).

Wednesday jobs
Finish off tunnel net
Batten down hatches (gales forecast Thursday)
Plant peas
Sow peas (need pots that pea plants are in!)
Trim more grass edges
Harvest lettuce, spinach, carrots

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Finish off tunnel net - done
Batten down hatches (gales forecast Thursday) - done
Plant peas - done
Sow peas (need pots that pea plants are in!) - done
Trim more grass edges - done some
Harvest lettuce, spinach, carrots - done

No gardening time today, just harvested some spinach.

Friday jobs (weather permitting)
Collect rain water
Weeding and horsetail
Trim more grass edges
Harvest lettuce, baby beet, spinach, carrots

[Jungle Jane]

I need to sow runner beans & sunflowers before anything else when there’s time. Also sow peas,parsnip & carrot seeds direct outside,maybe some swede direct sown under netting,haven’t tried that way yet. It’s rained everyday this week....

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Weeding and horsetail - no (flooded)
Trim more grass edges - no (flooded)
Harvest lettuce, baby beet, spinach, carrots - no, but did grab some rhubarb

Also potted up another tomato sideshoot

Weekend jobs (weather permitting)

At my friend's
Check plants in greenhouse and water
Weeding
Plant beetroot and lettuces

At allotment
Cover potatoes (cold nights again)
Remove any weeds on dry land
Harvest spinach, lettuce, PSB

At home
Check and weed paths and drive if water allows
Put net on carrot cage
Cover potatoes over night
Deadheading
Harvest carrots, spinach, check peas

[burnie]

The suns out and the wind has dropped, so first I need to survey the damage from yesterdays storm, then I have a shiny new lawn mower that needs testing.................................

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check plants in greenhouse and water - done
Weeding - done quite a bit
Plant beetroot and lettuces - done beetroot

At allotment
Cover potatoes (cold nights again) - done
Remove any weeds on dry land - done some
Harvest spinach, lettuce, PSB - done except PSB

At home
Check and weed paths and drive if water allows - no
Put net on carrot cage - done
Cover potatoes over night - done
Deadheading - done a little
Harvest carrots, spinach, check peas - done

Also (surprisingly) managed to cut the lawns and sowed runner beans

Monday jobs
Collect water
Weeding and deadheading
Sort out mesh for peas and plant
Harvest lettuce, spinach

[quanglewangle]

I must:

• Mow lawn
• Verticut it
• Overseed it with lovely fine grass seed
• Top dress

Can't do all that tomorrow, but before weekend when its going to turn warmer.

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Collect water - done
Weeding and deadheading - done some
Sort out mesh for peas and plant - done
Harvest lettuce, spinach - done, also the first few french beans from the plants on the windowsill.

Also went to the garden centre and bought bedding plants and dug the bottom out of the hotbin. I forgot to mention yesterday that I trimmed the allotment hedges at the weekend.

Tuesday jobs (weather permitting)
Start bringing dahlias and begonias out of garage
Try to find a solution to millions of tiny seedlings from seeds that landed a couple of weeks ago in the back garden (see photos below)
Weeding and deadheading
Harvest spinach, rhubarb



This is what the ground looked like ALL over the back garden. The air was thick with them and the ground was turning white - I thought it was snow at first! This is what is happening now:



These tiny little seedlings are everywhere - on the beds, in the pots and buckets, in trays of seedlings, in the cracks in the paving... anywhere that has not been covered. I don't know what they are or where they came from - they are not in the front garden, just the back. They are far too small for my usual method of pulling them out at the 2 seed leaf stage, so I am completely stuck!

[Jungle Jane]

Pene,I’ve got the same on my pots of peas & beans,loads of tiny seedlings,I wonder about covering it with a layer of old compost?

[Penellype]

Pene,I’ve got the same on my pots of peas & beans,loads of tiny seedlings,I wonder about covering it with a layer of old compost?

I'm going to have to do something like that. One of the areas that is covered in seedlings is my flowerbed where I want to plant out the bedding I bought yesterday. I'm going to wait until the rain stops (Thursday?) then hoe it off and hope that the seedlings die if its dry. Then I'll plant it up with bedding and mulch between the plants. The difficult bits are where the seeds have got in amongst rows of peas or in pots of leek seedlings where you can't really get in between the plants to mulch.