What I did today 2022

[quanglewangle]

Yesterday, actually. Had 3m³ kiln dried logs delivered - half our year's supply.

The kids kindly stacked them in an outhouse, in exchange for pasties. Other half next month: can't get a big truck up our lane.

[Snoop Puss]

Sympathy like there, ameno.

[peanut]

Continued potting up new bedding plants and repotting all the bedding plants I kept alive from last year. Still so much to do!

[ameno]

Planted out some dwarf french bean plants and sowed some more beetroot.

Also, it seems we already have blight on our allotment site... For now it seems confined to two plots on the far side, away from my plot, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time... I talked to those plot holders and advised them to cut down and bag up all of the infected plants, which they are diligently doing, so hopefully that should slow its spread, at least.
I'm pretty sure we've worked out why it hit so early. The plot it came from had a row of volunteer potatoes, and those were the first ones infected. I suspect those are from plants which died of blight last year and then when the tubers resprouted this year they got blight very quickly as a result.
I'm not too worried about my earlies and second earlies, as they are basically already ready, anyway. Nor am I too worried about the tomatoes, as they are all blight-resistant varieties. What I'm concerned about is my maincrop potatoes...

[annie8]

Picked my first sweet peas and cosmos for the house today. Potted up some more basil seedlings - working well indoors. Pricked out some cavolo nero seedlings.

[Bren In Pots]

Fed my toms, cucs and courgettes with comfrey. Weeded GH borders and tied in sweet peas.

[annie8]

Hadnt occurred to me as I don’t usually use that kind of fertiliser. But came across a tub in the gh and thought I’d use it. When I searched for what could be causing the browning and it’s definitely that.

[quanglewangle]

[...] Kicking myself as realised my sweetcorn is suffering from fertiliser burn as I got a bit carried away when chucking around some growmore[...]

I am surprised growmore is strong enough to do that.

[annie8]

Harvested my autumn sown garlic, sowed beetroot and salad leaves. Potted on some chillis, pricked out cauliflower seedlings.Sorted out all my tomato plants into the right places in the gh which took ages but looks so much better.

[Bren In Pots]

Removed bolted chard, tidied up lettuce plants, picked sweet peas and some nasturtium pods that I'm going to pickle.

[Jungle Jane]

It was quite windy here yesterday,tied up the toms,cucumbers,melons & the grapevine,thinned the fruit on the grape & apple tree. Planted the first five dahlias & another tomato & two peppers,there’s not too much left to plant out now,I might be able to put the other blowaway in the shed soon. The aphids are loving my runner beans,they’ve got wings to fly to my two plants I haven’t even planted out yet

[annie8]

Not a great day, pulled all the rest of my beetroot that had bolted and was too small to do anything with and spotted aphids on my broccoli. Kicking myself as realised my sweetcorn is suffering from fertiliser burn as I got a bit carried away when chucking around some growmore. Only small positive was that a few peas are emerging from the most recent sowing - have struggled with pea germination this year.

[ameno]

Planted out a dozen Swiss chard plants.

[ameno]

Planted out the other 6 strawberry plants I ordered the other week.
Cut back the rather rampant red valerian.
Thinned and weeded the big carrot tub.
Weeded the soft fruit bed.
Cut down the comfrey plants and stuff it into a bag to wilt for a few days, after which I shall use it to mulch my tomatoes.

[Bren In Pots]

Just fed my GH toms and cucs will be potting up some lettuce later on.