What I did today 2021

[Mr Bones]

Potted on 24 Golden Acre cabbages, turned the compost and showed a younger gardener interested in no dig round the plot.

[annie8]

Planted put my Clapton cauliflower and red cabbage seedlings. Covered them in fleece.

[Purple Primrose]

Did some weeding. Planted out garlic. Potted up courgette and squash.

[peanut]

Worked

[ameno]

Finished digging the final allotment bed. Although I still have a little work left to do, as I plan to extend that bed a little.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on Marigolds and Nasturtiums.

[Containergardener]

More elder removal , digging over of ugh clay, covered bed and then flagged on top and adding decorative stones.
(Just having rose tubs there this yr again).
Planted couple of plants.
Watered everything.

[Purple Primrose]

Did more weeding. Planted out the remaining onion sets. Sowed broad beans (Sutton and Crimson Flowered) and peas (Meteor, Kelvedon Wonder and Petit Provencal).

The willow cuttings I put in a couple of weeks back are showing signs of having taken and are now producing leaves.

[Bren In Pots]

Erected pea frame and planted out Telephone peas protected them from birds with fleece.

Potted on :-
Toms.
Courgettes
Squash
Cucs
Aubergines.

[Mark Rand]

Planted out most of the shallot seedlings. There are a few left over in case the blackbirds/pigeons/next door's cat do away with them.

[Containergardener]

Weeding

[ameno]

Earthed up potatoes, did some watering, and started extending one of my allotment beds (I marked the area out and stripped the turf).

[StephenH]

My runner and climbing beans are germinating in their fibre pots on the windowsill. I will have to get some bamboo poles to grow them up. In the beds, something has finally appeared above ground apart from the radishes: a few of my 'Salad Blue' spuds have appeared, though none of the 'Pink Fir Apple' so far. It's a notoriously slow chitter, so it's probably slow to appear above ground as well. I think all my onions, planted out a few weeks ago, are dead.
My compost heaps were showing no sign of heating up, probably because the material was too coarse. They had both sunk, so this morning I combined them in one bin, shredding everything by hand, which was tedious and took some time, but everything is now much more finely shredded. Bunged in a couple of spadefuls of soil to get the bacteria off to a head start.

[Mr Bones]

Cleared up four huge bags of duck muck that had been ripped open by a fox and mixed it into the compost... which is what I should have done yesterday.

[StephenH]

Transported 30 seven foot long bamboo canes for my runner beans home from Wilko on my 'Elephant bike'. NOT RECOMMENDED, as I had to pedal bow-legged, and they made the bike even longer than usual, but at least I did it without an infernal congestion engine!
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