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

[Penellype]

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

A little bit of sunshine today made a huge difference. No gardening time tomorrow.

[Penellype]

Managed to collect 6 bin bags of leaves yesterday.

Friday jobs
Take bags of leaves to allotment
Cut down tomato plants in tunnel (showing signs of blight)
Harvest tomatoes, turnip, romanesco, leek and carrot

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Take bags of leaves to allotment - done
Cut down tomato plants in tunnel (showing signs of blight) - done
Harvest tomatoes, turnip, romanesco, leek and carrot - done

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding
Continue tidying up in greenhouse
Harvest tomatoes, apples

At allotment
Cut grass if dry enough (highly unlikely)
Weeding
Collect leaves
Harvest romanesco, possibly PSB, check chilean guava

At home
Cut lawns if dry (unlikely)
Weeding
Deadheading
General tidy up
Start planning for 2025
Check greenhouse plants and water if required
Harvest carrots

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Weeding - no
Continue tidying up in greenhouse - done some
Harvest tomatoes, apples - done

At allotment
Cut grass if dry enough (highly unlikely) - no
Weeding - done some
Collect leaves - no
Harvest romanesco, possibly PSB, check chilean guava - done romanesco

At home
Cut lawns if dry (unlikely) - no
Weeding - no
Deadheading - done some
General tidy up - no
Start planning for 2025 - no
Check greenhouse plants and water if required - done
Harvest carrots - done

Very dull and drizzly most of the time at the weekend, with enthusiasm to match. Hopefully today will be brighter and I will feel more like doing something useful!

Monday jobs
Weeding
Deadheading
Clear leaves
Trim long grass if dry enough
Remove finished peas
Harvest greenhouse tomatoes, PSB and/or romanesco, carrots, check chilean guava

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Weeding - done some
Deadheading - no
Clear leaves - done some
Trim long grass if dry enough - no, much too wet
Remove finished peas - done
Harvest greenhouse tomatoes, PSB and/or romanesco, carrots, check chilean guava - done

Also cut down all the greenhouse tomato plants and removed the melon plant in the growhouse, which was clearly dead and harvested the 2 melons, which I hope will ripen indoors. Planted out some spring onion seedlings.

Tuesday jobs
Weeding
Deadheading
Clear leaves
General tidy up
Harvest carrots, turnip

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Weeding - no
Deadheading - no
Clear leaves - no
General tidy up - done a little
Harvest carrots, turnip - no

Got distracted, first by trying (and failing) to remove some ivy that is trying to grow between the wall and flat roof over the bay window, and then by some computing stuff. Playing catch up with my usual jobs today as a result.

Wednesday jobs
Weeding
Deadheading
Clear leaves
Harvest romanesco, carrots, chilean guava

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Weeding - done some
Deadheading - done some
Clear leaves - done some
Harvest romanesco, carrots, chilean guava - done

Also removed the last of the tomato plants and the cucumber at the allotment.

No gardening time today.

[Penellype]

Very little time again today but starting to prepare the allotment for the possibility of heavy snow early next week.

Friday jobs
Take net off raspberries
Drop down net over romanesco
Think of some way to protect PSB
Harvest beetroot, lettuce, salad leaves, romanesco, carrots

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Take net off raspberries - done
Drop down net over romanesco - done
Think of some way to protect PSB - no
Harvest beetroot, lettuce, salad leaves, romanesco, carrots - done

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Continue clearing greenhouse
Weeding

At allotment
Think of some way to protect PSB
Take net off tunnel if it looks likely to snow
Remove finished courgette
Weeding
Harvest beetroot, romanesco, turnips, PSB

At home
Check covers will cope with snow
Remove carrot cage net
Move some buckets of carrots to garage
Bring begonias and fuchsias into garage
Deadheading
Harvest carrots