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  • Wednesday jobs
    Check tomatoes for blight - done
    Take some lettuces to stables - done
    Collect some rotted muck - done
    Weeding and horsetail - done some
    Sort out covers for coming cold weather - done
    Harvest cucumber, tomatoes, beans, beetroot, romanesco, check peas, strawberries - done except harvested turnip and carrot instead of romanesco.

    Thursday jobs
    Collect rain water

    No chance of any gardening today as everywhere is under water and it is forecast to rain all day. No gardening time tomorrow.
    Last edited by Penellype; 26-09-2024, 12:21 PM.
    A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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    • Weekend jobs

      At my friend's
      Weeding
      Dig over bed where peas were*
      Water greenhouse plants
      Harvest tomatoes

      *I usually do no dig, but my friend's garden is next to fields and there are definite rat runs under the veg garden. I have tried filling them with water, but that doesn't seem to stop more holes from appearing. Apart from the idea of working that near rats (which is probably happening anyway to be honest), the rat runs deprive the plants of water and I have had sections of pea plants die as a result. So I am digging to disturb them as they do not like being disturbed.

      At allotment
      Uncover tomato and courgette plants protected from frost
      Check plants for wind and frost damage
      Collect more flood water
      Weeding and horsetail
      Harvest tomatoes if any, courgette, beans, romanesco, pink blueberries

      At home
      Weeding
      Deadheading
      Start planning for next year
      Water greenhouse plants
      Harvest tomatoes, peppers, beans, summer leeks, carrots
      A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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      • Weekend jobs

        At my friend's
        Weeding - done some
        Dig over bed where peas were - done some
        Water greenhouse plants - done
        Harvest tomatoes - done some

        At allotment
        Uncover tomato and courgette plants protected from frost - done
        Check plants for wind and frost damage - done
        Collect more flood water - done. IBC container is now full again.
        Weeding and horsetail - done some
        Harvest tomatoes if any, courgette, beans, romanesco, pink blueberries - done

        At home
        Weeding - done some
        Deadheading - done some
        Start planning for next year - no
        Water greenhouse plants - done
        Harvest tomatoes, peppers, beans, summer leeks, carrots - done

        Expecting it to rain all day today, so any gardening will be restricted to planning for next year.
        A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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        • Very wet again today so essentials only:

          Tuesday jobs
          Garden photos (1st of month)
          Collect rain water
          Harvest beans, carrots
          A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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          • Tuesday jobs
            Garden photos (1st of month) - done
            Collect rain water - done
            Harvest beans, carrots - done

            Wednesday jobs
            Driving past the allotments this morning it looks like the council are cutting the hedge. I will probably therefore have to spend most of the gardening time clearing up the clippings.
            Also:
            Collect rain water
            Weeding and horsetail
            Remove yellow brassica leaves
            Deadheading
            Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, beetroot, check peas, strawberries
            Last edited by Penellype; 02-10-2024, 09:17 AM.
            A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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            • Wednesday jobs
              Collect rain water - done
              Weeding and horsetail - done some
              Remove yellow brassica leaves - done some
              Deadheading - done some
              Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, beetroot, check peas, strawberries - done some

              Also cut back the nettles and I'm attempting to make some nettle feed with them.

              Annoyingly the council stopped the hedge cutting half way down, so they may well do mine today when I am busy with meetings and probably won't have time to clear up the mess.
              A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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              • The council did cut the hedge yesterday and I managed to rake up the worst of the mess just before it got dark.

                Friday jobs
                Pick off any bits of hedge that are stuck to nets
                Weeding and horsetail
                Deadheading
                Trim long grass edges if dry enough
                Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, beetroot, romanesco, carrots, leeks, check cucumbers, beans, strawberries
                A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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                • Friday jobs
                  Pick off any bits of hedge that are stuck to nets - done
                  Weeding and horsetail - done a little
                  Deadheading - no
                  Trim long grass edges if dry enough - no
                  Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, beetroot, romanesco, carrots, leeks, check cucumbers, beans, strawberries - done some plus a few pods of peas

                  Also spent some time changing the way I tie the hollyhocks to the hedge as they had broken the original string. They grow 8 - 10ft tall and fall over if not tied back.

                  Weekend jobs

                  At my friend's
                  Weeding
                  Fill self watering trays in greenhouse
                  Remove any finished greenhouse plants
                  Harvest tomatoes, windfall apples

                  At allotment
                  Weeding and horsetail
                  Trim grass edges if dry enough
                  Cut grass if dry
                  Tidy shed
                  Harvest tomatoes, beetroot, turnips, romanesco, check for late pink blueberries

                  At home
                  Weeding especially drive
                  Deadheading
                  Cut down finished perennials
                  Mow lawns if dry
                  Water greenhouse plants
                  Tidy garage
                  Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, leeks, beans
                  Last edited by Penellype; Today, 07:39 AM.
                  A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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