What I did today 2021

[ameno]

Pruned grapes vines (again) and pear tree (again).
A little weeding.

[Sweet savory]

Planted out some perpetual spinach/chard, not sure which. They are fairly small so going in the last chance saloon patch along with some swede with arrested development. Also 3 bronze beauty lettuce and 4 radicchio as think they are tough enough to survive on the plot.
Sweetcorn chopped up and composted.
6 spring cabbage popped in under a cloche.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted up the last of my winter lettuce into buckets and troughs.

[quanglewangle]

Tame the hedges day.

Now that there is no danger of disturbing nests we can really have a go at the mixed hedges.

Hawthorn is a bit of a bully and needs to be cut away from such as our sea buckthorn, blackthorn, tamerisk, pittosporum, and gorse.

It's taken seven or eight years to get the hedges established and now they fight back, so I guess that's good.

[ameno]

Cleared my finished watermelon plants, and pulled up a dead squash plant.
Also picked three Candy Roaster squashes and left them in the sun to cure.

[Bren In Pots]

Removed the Masterpiece cuc I can’t see it producing any more cucs the Beth alphas are still doing well.

[Sweet savory]

Cleared sweetcorn, weeded and raked. Then sowed green manure for winter timed to take advantage of the deluge we are promised tomorrow.

[Bren In Pots]

Removed two cucumbers that had finished in the GH weeded the GH borders.

[quanglewangle]

Ordered nematodes for lawn leatherjackets. Haven't actually seen any crane flies but don't want devastation like we had three years ago.

[Mr Bones]

Collected a piled high trailer full of fine wood chips with plenty of green (for adding to compost), pottered about on the lotty and did lots of nattering. Showed a party of new tenants round the plot.

[ameno]

Dug up half of my maincrop (Rooster) potatoes.
Removed more diseased leaves from my watermelons and sqaushes.
Fed and watered.

[quanglewangle]

Verticut the lawn, which left the patches invaded by weed grasses almost bare. A bit scary.

Seeded and top dressed those patches with screened topsoil.

Overseeded the whole lawn for good measure.

Sprinkled on about 2cm

Fingers crossed and keep it moist for a couple of weeks.

[ameno]

Pulled out the remains of my melon plants, now that the melons are all picked. Also trimmed up the watermelon plants to try and remove some of the diseased material, which seems to be spreading like mad.
Fed and watered almost everything.

[Bren In Pots]

Pulled up one lot of sweet peas and added them to a compost bin they were covered in green fly

[Bren In Pots]

Potted up the last of my winter lettuce, collected Telephone pea seeds that been drying on the plant. Sown some spring cabbage.