What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[Bren In Pots]

Pen it must be frustrating and upsetting having your garden under water.

[Penellype]

Thanks Bren, it is! The back garden path has been under water for ages now and is starting to smell like a stagnant pond. There is nothing I can do except wait for the water to go down, and unfortunately it is forecast to rain again tonight and on Wednesday. After that, hopefully we may have a few dry days. The allotment is also half under water, including the bed where the parsnips and some of the broccoli are. I can't get at it at all for now, so again I just have to wait. The tunnel is on dry land so the leeks are not flooded, but they are badly damaged by leek moth.

At least the water is confined to outdoors. I cannot imagine how awful it would be if the house was flooded.

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Check allotment for wind damage - done
Sow peas for pea shoots - done
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots - done plus a leek and a kohlrabi

Also raked the gravel on the drive to fill in a dip where I get out of the car as it was making quite a deep puddle and moved some lettuces out of the greenhouse as they were showing signs of thrip damage.

Tuesday jobs (weather permitting)
Attempt to clear leaves out of pond
Remove any dead bedding plants that can be reached from paths
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Attempt to clear leaves out of pond - done
Remove any dead bedding plants that can be reached from paths - no
Harvest carrots - done

Various appointments today and tomorrow make gardening unlikely.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs (soggy ground permitting)
Remove dead bedding plants
Clear leaves
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Remove dead bedding plants - done some
Clear leaves - no
Harvest lettuce, salad leaves, carrots - done

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding
Remove dead runner beans
Salvage any peppers not damaged by frost

At allotment
Check plants that were under water (parsnips, broccoli)
Weeding
Start emptying compost out of hotbed

At home
Dig out bottom of hotbin
Clear up leaves that were removed from pond
Trim back periwinkle
Weeding
Harvest lettuce, carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding - no
Remove dead runner beans - done
Salvage any peppers not damaged by frost - done

At allotment
Check plants that were under water (parsnips, broccoli) - done
Weeding - done some
Start emptying compost out of hotbed - no

At home
Dig out bottom of hotbin - done
Clear up leaves that were removed from pond - done
Trim back periwinkle - done
Weeding - done some
Harvest lettuce, carrots - done

Monday jobs (if the man who said he was coming at 9am ever turns up)
Start emptying compost out of hotbed
Check everything is secure (gales forecast later in week)
Weeding
Clear leaves
General tidy up
Harvest leeks, carrots

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Start emptying compost out of hotbed - done
Check everything is secure (gales forecast later in week) - done
Weeding - done some
Clear leaves - done some
General tidy up - no
Harvest leeks, carrots - done

Tuesday jobs
Make the first hotbed
Top hotbed with compost and cover

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Make the first hotbed - done
Top hotbed with compost and cover - done

Wednesday jobs
Weeding
General tidy up
Harvest, lettuce, salad leaves, parsnips

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Weeding - done some
General tidy up - no
Harvest, lettuce, salad leaves, parsnips - done parsnips

No gardening time today.

[Penellype]

Unlikely to have much time today but might get a bit of tidying up done at home.

[Penellype]

Nothing yesterday except harvesting a carrot, mainly due to people who say they will come and then don't turn up, wasting the whole morning.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding
Remove dead pepper plants from greenhouse

At allotment
Check for wind damage
Weeding
General tidy up
Harvest kohlrabi, leek

At home
Weeding
Remove dead bedding plants
Tidy garage
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding - done a little
Remove dead pepper plants from greenhouse - no

At allotment
Check for wind damage - done
Weeding - done some
General tidy up - done some
Harvest kohlrabi, leek - no

At home
Weeding - no
Remove dead bedding plants - no
Tidy garage - no
Harvest carrots - done

Rather too windy to get much done over the weekend and no gardening time today.

[Penellype]

Not a lot of time today either. Forgot to add that I trimmed and thinned out the strawberry plants at the allotment on Saturday. Planted some calendula seedlings that have been lurking in the growhouse today and harvested leeks, carrots and kohlrabi.

I don't expect to be able to do any gardening tomorrow as it is forecast to rain heavily most of the day.

[Penellype]

Not a lot of chance to do gardening for the next couple of days, with appointments mainly due to repeated technology failures. Workmen demand you stay in waiting all morning or all afternoon, making gardening virtually impossible. Maybe next year...