What I did today 2022

[annie8]

Came home feom 3nights away. Thankfully all ok in the garden. Had been worried about the temp in the gh and my tomatoes but they were ok, just needing a good drink. Bit of weeding and planted on some cavolo nero I’d started inside.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on herbs, watered containers and weeded parsnip bed again.

[Sweet savory]

Planted out a courgette on the plot. Resowed carrots as only 2 in the row had shown their heads. The other row sown at the same time has better germination but no idea why. There is quite a bit of rain forecast so I hope it doesn’t wash the seed away.
Noticed some black fly on the broad beans but on the plus side my direct sown peas are up and not eaten - yet.

[Bren In Pots]

Netted my strawberries they're just starting to turn red then planted out land cress.

[ameno]

Planted out one more squash plant, three pots of french beans, and four gherkin plants.
Fed and watered most of the stuff at the allotment.

I also removed the fleece I had put on my melon, watermelon and squash plants. Covering them may have been a mistake. All of the uncovered plants (peppers, tomatoes, beans, sweetcorn, a few squashes I didn't have enough fleece for) have grown well in the 5 days since I was last there, despite the cold nights. The watermelons, however, seem to have gotten a bit singed under the fleece. Got too hot in the sun, I guess.
They still have about half their leaves and the growing points are healthy and intact, though, so hopefully they should recover.

[Bren In Pots]

Fed Tom's, cucs and potatoes with comfrey. Arm pitted Tom's again

[Jungle Jane]

Watered all my little pots with seaweed fertiliser,I’ve put as many tomato plants as possible into the blowaways there’s a low of 6 degrees here tonight. Some tomato plants are indoors because there’s so many,there’s a tomato on this one,it’s a cream sausage

[Bren In Pots]

Yesterday I planted out the last of my courgettes fleecing and cloched them.

[annie8]

Sowed another row of carrots, pricked basil seedlings out into pots, bit of hoeing of weeds, tried to save a Lemonbalm that I took from the front and pot in a pot, but is dying, put some dahlias in a large terracotta pot on the deck, potted on some tomatoes.
, sowed some more peas as don’t seem to have germinated.

[ameno]

Planted out some more Spagna Bianca runner beans, along with three types of climbing French bean.
Also covered the melons and squashes with fleece as it's going to be a bit chilly for the next few nights. I'd like to cover more stuff, but I don't have enough fleece. Lowest predicted is 6c, so I'm sure they'll cope.

[ameno]

Potted up the six tomato plants which will go in my conservatory and mini greenhouse (3 Monserrat, 3 Burlesque).
Potted up the two cucumber plants to go in my conservatory.

[Sweet savory]

Planted out another Brussels sprout on the plot. Prepared squash pits. Dotted around spare marigold and cosmos.
The sweetcorn have not liked the recent combination of strong winds, sunshine and hardly any rain and are looking a bit sad. I had to use the spare plant to fill a slugged gap so fingers crossed they all pick up soon.

[ameno]

Planted out some more stuff at the allotment:

-6 Emir melon plants
-2 Sweet Siberian watermelon plants
-3 Petite Yellow watermelon plants (these ones seem a lot more vigorous than the other ones)
-8 Spagna Bianca runner beans
-6 black-seeded runner beans
-10 of a different variety of black-seeded runner beans

I also potted up 27 pre-sprouted black turtle beans.

[Sweet savory]

Tomatoes planted up in quadgrow. Added a french marigold to each pot. Also potted on a couple of outdoor tomatoes.
climbing Pea seeds sown in gaps in rows and another few radish on the raised bed as the first lot were eaten. I had treated the bed with slug nematodes but problems persist so could be snails I guess.

[quanglewangle]

Today and every day.
Pinged the strings supporting the tomatos to aid pollination. Like playing a harp.