What I intend to do today or tomorrow number2

[Penellype]

Managed to take the monthly garden photos yesterday (I was far from sure I was going to get a chance with the window men coming early).

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding
Check greenhouse plants and remove any dead tomatoes
Harvest tomatoes, apples

At allotment
Weeding and check for any horsetail
Collect leaves
Check pea and bean pods and pick any that are dried
Harvest tomatoes, romanesco, turnips and possibly PSB, check melons, chilean guava

At home
Weeding
Deadheading
Clear leaves
Sow lettuce, peas for pea shoots
Check and water greenhouse plants and fence pots
Harvest tomatoes, peppers, carrots, check calabrese, strawberries

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding - done some
Check greenhouse plants and remove any dead tomatoes - done some
Harvest tomatoes, apples - done plus a couple of peppers and the last of the cucumbers

At allotment
Weeding and check for any horsetail - no
Collect leaves - no
Check pea and bean pods and pick any that are dried - no
Harvest tomatoes, romanesco, turnips and possibly PSB, check melons, chilean guava - done

Also spent so me time deciding exactly where the fruit bushes will go in the old raspberry bed.

At home
Weeding - no
Deadheading - done some
Clear leaves - no
Sow lettuce, peas for pea shoots - no
Check and water greenhouse plants and fence pots - done
Harvest tomatoes, peppers, carrots, check calabrese, strawberries - done

Really struggling with enthusiasm on these dull, damp and cheerless days.

Monday jobs
Weeding
Deadheading
Collect leaves
Sow lettuce and peas for pea shoots
Harvest tomatoes

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Weeding - no
Deadheading - done some
Collect leaves - no
Sow lettuce and peas for pea shoots - done lettuce
Harvest tomatoes - done

Tuesday jobs (zero enthusiasm)
Clear up bits window men dropped on front lawn
Make soup (tomato and pepper)
Check greenhouse and water plants if dry
Harvest tomatoes, romanesco, carrots

[Andraste]

You're not alone with what I call 'weather grumps'. It's been grey & miserable here too. Makes me want to hibernate & do little else. OH has proclaimed "I'd rather have 6 feet of snow than this bleeping depressing excuse for weather!" & at least that made me chuckle at him 😄 well done for doing all the jobs you have x

[Penellype]

You're not alone with what I call 'weather grumps'. It's been grey & miserable here too. Makes me want to hibernate & do little else. OH has proclaimed "I'd rather have 6 feet of snow than this bleeping depressing excuse for weather!" & at least that made me chuckle at him 😄 well done for doing all the jobs you have x

Thanks Andraste. The meteorological term for it is anticyclonic gloom, and it is caused when warm damp air gets trapped under high pressure with no wind to stir up the atmosphere. Similar conditions can cause fog, and in the olden days when there was more pollution it resulted in the famous London smogs.

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Clear up bits window men dropped on front lawn - done
Make soup (tomato and pepper) - done
Check greenhouse and water plants if dry - done
Harvest tomatoes, romanesco, carrots - done

Wednesday jobs
Weeding
Deadheading
Plant pink blueberry if soil dry enough
Plant spring bulbs
Harvest lettuce, cucumbers, beetroot, tomatoes, calabrese, carrot