What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Check stored tomatoes and freeze ripe ones - done
Collect water - done
Check allotment for caterpillars and blight - done
Weeding and horsetail - no
Deadheading - done a bit
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, microgreens - done plus cabbage

Tuesday jobs
Check for caterpillars, blight and slugs
Weeding and horsetail
Deadheading
Harvest pink blueberries, microgreens

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Check for caterpillars, blight and slugs - done
Weeding and horsetail - done some
Deadheading - done some
Harvest pink blueberries, microgreens - done

Also collected lots of rain water

Wednesday jobs
Collect more water
Check for caterpillars, blight and slugs
Weeding and horsetail
Harvest courgette, calabrese, leeks

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Collect more water - done
Check for caterpillars, blight and slugs - done
Weeding and horsetail - done some
Harvest courgette, calabrese, leeks - done, also tomatoes, a pepper and some lettuce

No gardening time today.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Garden photos (1st of month)
Collect rain water
Check for caterpillars, slugs and blight
Weeding and horsetail
Deadheading
Water plants under cover
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest tomatoes, carrots

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Garden photos (1st of month) - done
Collect rain water - done
Check for caterpillars, slugs and blight - done
Weeding and horsetail - done some
Deadheading - done some
Water plants under cover - done
Plan weekend gardening - done
Harvest tomatoes, carrots - done plus calabrese

Also removed a load of strawberry runners from behind the shelf in the tunnel and potted up a few.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check tomatoes for blight
Weeding
Fill self watering trays
Harvest tomatoes

At allotment
Collect water
Check for caterpillars, slugs and blight
Remove more strawberry runners
Weeding and horsetail
Harvest courgette and make soup

At home
Weeding
Deadheading
Harvest tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, microgreens, carrots

[quanglewangle]

Finish clearing sweetcorn, which because we plant it quite densely is quite a 'cleaning' crop, ready to plant Japanese onions by mid-month.

[quanglewangle]

Grub out the Rhubarb, which we only planted because we thought everyone had it, but which we never eat.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs (including Monday)

At my friend's
Check tomatoes for blight - done
Weeding - done some
Fill self watering trays - done
Harvest tomatoes - done

At allotment
Collect water - done
Check for caterpillars, slugs and blight - done
Remove more strawberry runners - no
Weeding and horsetail - done some
Harvest courgette and make soup - no, but did harvest some calabrese

Also started cutting down the runner beans, which have finished, in the hope that what I have left to do is less likely to blow down in today's gales.

At home
Weeding - no
Deadheading - done some
Harvest tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, microgreens, carrots - done

Also got a phone call yesterday saying that my greenhouse will be arriving next week (3 weeks earlier than expected!). Tackled the difficult job of moving the growhouse 6 inches to the left (required digging a bit out of the flowerbed) while occupied by a large and sprawling tomato plant. Managed ok, thankfully.

Tuesday jobs
Collect rain water
Collect more rain water
Slug and snail hunt
Harvest lettuce

[quanglewangle]

.. . Tackled the difficult job of moving the growhouse 6 inches to the left (required digging a bit out of the flowerbed) while occupied by a large and sprawling tomato plant. Managed ok, thankfully.

Respect.
Moving greenhouses is a tricky business.

[Penellype]

Respect.
Moving greenhouses is a tricky business.

Its only 2ft x 4ft and about 3ft high. The glass lifts out and the frame is aluminium so its not that hard to move. The tomato plant was the biggest problem.

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Collect more rain water - done
Slug and snail hunt - done some
Harvest lettuce - done

Wednesday jobs
Collect more water
Take down old fruit cage frame
Weeding and horsetail
Deadheading
Slug and snail hunt
Check for caterpillars and blight
Continue removing runner beans
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, microgreens, courgette

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Collect more water - done
Take down old fruit cage frame - done
Weeding and horsetail - no
Deadheading - no
Slug and snail hunt - done
Check for caterpillars and blight - done
Continue removing runner beans - done some
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, microgreens, courgette - done except courgette, also some tomatoes

Thursday jobs
Weeding and horsetail
Deadheading
Check for slugs, caterpillars and blight
Harvest carrots, courgette

[Penellype]

Thursday jobs
Weeding and horsetail - done some
Deadheading - done some
Check for slugs, caterpillars and blight - done
Harvest carrots, courgette - done

No gardening time today.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check tomato plants for botrytis
Weeding
Fill self watering trays
Harvest tomatoes, courgette

At allotment
Weeding and horsetail
Check for slugs and blight
Clear fallen leaves
Water anything that needs it
Harvest cucumber, florence fennel, pink blueberries

At home
Weeding
Deadheading
Start clearing plants out of way for greenhouse delivery
Watering if needed
Sow winter lettuce
Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check tomato plants for botrytis - done
Weeding - done some
Fill self watering trays - done
Harvest tomatoes, courgette - done

At allotment
Weeding and horsetail - no
Check for slugs and blight - done
Clear fallen leaves - done some
Water anything that needs it - done
Harvest cucumber, florence fennel, pink blueberries - done cucumber

Also potted up a seedling hollyhock for my friend

At home
Weeding - done some
Deadheading - done some
Start clearing plants out of way for greenhouse delivery - done some
Watering if needed - done
Sow winter lettuce - done
Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, carrots - done plus calabrese

Also potted up a tomato cutting that I am hoping will survive the winter in the house and produce early sideshoots.

Monday jobs
Continue clearing plants out of the way of greenhouse
Make soup
Weeding
Deadheading
Clear leaves
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers

[Penellype]

Monday jobs (+ Tuesday)
Continue clearing plants out of the way of greenhouse - done
Make soup - done
Weeding - done some
Deadheading - done some
Clear leaves - done some
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers - done, also the last of the pink blueberries and some leeks and carrots

Also cut the grass at the allotment.

Wednesday jobs
Weeding and horsetail
Deadheading
Mow lawns if dry enough
Harvest tomatoes, carrots