What I did today 2022

[quanglewangle]

Reinstalled the automatic vent opener in the greenhouse. Summer is coming!

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on tomatoes, planted module sown lettuce into troughs. Started chatting parsnips in take out boxes.

[ameno]

Sowed some radish seeds.
Finished mulching my fruit bushes and trees.
Another plot holder who lives just next door to the allotments offered me half a dumpy bag of wood chip and a bin half full of chicken poo, so I dragged them both down to my plot and mixed the chicken manure in with the wood chip. By next year it should be a decent mulch for my fruit bushes and such.
Also started on digging another one of the beds, but didn't get very far.

[bikermike]

What I am doing today (this is live from my allotment...)
spuds planted.
one bed I planned to put them in was a bit of a mess, as it had veg (carrots and leeks) I harvested in stages, so it never got stripped out. Girded my loins to clear it, then re-checked my notes. Can't put them in, there were spuds in there last year. So switched to a cleared bed.

next job is to put the bean frame up. Hmmm, planned bean bed is now full of spuds... so I need to put the bean frame up in the bed the spuds were going to be in...

yup, the one that was a mess. Hey ho... didn't need to clear the potato bed, just had to clear the same bed re-listed as a bean bed...

nice day for it though.

[Plot70]

I was fast enough to catch a pheasant for the pot. My plot is less than a mile from an official shoot so we do get a bit of overspill some times.
Being told that it is not allowed indoors until it is plucked is the norm.

[Mr Bones]

Pulled the last of the black kale from the brassica cage, topped the beds with compost and planted out peas grown in guttering.

[Bren In Pots]

Looking good there MrB

I'm just chitting my peas so yesterday I filled guttering ready for my pea to go in.

Just checked and some ready to sow. I'll do those this morning.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted up 3 types of lettuce and moved them to the cold frame, along with sweet peas, radishes and spring onions.

[Mr Bones]

Planted out 140 Golden Bear onions and a 60 cell tray of multi-sown beetroot, also pricked out a 60 cell tray of celeriac.

[ameno]

Trimmed up and tied in the loganberry stems.
Pruned the rambling rose and buddleia.
Started on pruning the big cherry tree (done about three-quarters).

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on nasturtiums, planted out what were last year's strawberry runners.
Sown last chitted peas into guttering.

[Bren In Pots]

Emptied one of my Daleks onto what will be my pea bed, turned another Dalek.
Pulled up bolted chard and self seeded land cress.

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I potted on orange banana,peacevine cherry & German red strawberry tomato seedlings they all sound like other fruit more to do soon,I noticed some haven’t germinated,I wonder what ones they are,I could have a quick look…..it’s balconi red,four cells no germination,I just watered them on a tray with a bit of seaweed feed….

[ameno]

Planted out my gutter of mangetout seedlings.
Did some more digging.

[peanut]

Finally the planets aligned, well not so much the planets, but my availability, the wind gust speeds, wind direction and all round dryness so I was able to finally have my very overdue and desperately needed bonfire. 2 hours of ferrying piles of twigs etc and 2.5hrs of burning.
I am so glad it is done.