What I did today 2023.

[ameno]

Well, I tried to cut a triangle pane for my greenhouse today (one of them was broken from the start), and that was a complete failure. The damn glass is too hard; the glass cutters I took with me wouldn't even scratch it.
I've got some tungsten carbide tipped stuff at home, so I'll try that tomorrow.
While I was there, I earthed up my first early potatoes (second earlies are barely starting to appear yet).

Also noticed today that my allotment peach tree has peach leaf curl. Quite a wide spread infection, too, although mostly just one on side of the tree, for some reason.

[Candide]

I've heard that old glass is difficult/impossible to cut and shatters - dunno why - age hardening, UV influence?

[Candide]

Got some chard just coming thro in modules. Replacement lot of broad beans doing well and hardening off. Marigolds, agretti and beetroot in modules not thro yet.
Sowed leeks today in a washing up bowl. Will get round to some summer cabbage this aft

[Bren In Pots]

Hello and welcome to the vine candide

Today we’ve cut the grass, weeded two beds and dig up dandelions from in between the quarry tile paths.

[ameno]

I've heard that old glass is difficult/impossible to cut and shatters - dunno why - age hardening, UV influence?

I don't have any issue with it shattering (not yet, anyway). My problem is that the normal steel glass cutters will not scratch it at all. If I press hard enough steel even starts coming off on the glass, which is the opposite of what should be happening.
It's hardened glass, and having looked into it later, apparently hardened glass is impossible to cut with any sort of steel glass cutter.

[ameno]

Well, I'm back from the allotment and I managed to cut the glass, after a fashion.
THr tungsten carbide drill bit I had was hard enough to score the glass, although unfortunately it wasn't very sharp, so made rather a wide, shallow score. As a result, I wasn't able to get a very clean break. The piece I have fits, but the edge is all wobbly and it's not quite big enough so there's a gap. It'll do, though.
I also cleaned the glass in the door while I was there, as I somehow missed it last time.

[peanut]

Prepared a bed for my nicola potatoes which I might plant this week. Hoed the garlic, onion and strawberry beds then sat and enjoyed a cuppa in the sunshine, which had stayed lovely and hot in my thermal mug.

[annie8]

Put up my pea netting working around the cauliflowers that are still in that space.

[peanut]

Finally cut back the buddleia and gave the lawns their first mow of the year. It was glorious sunshine, lovely and warm and I was followed around the garden my by resident Robin who is feeding young in the oldest nestbox I have. It's always used by either Robins or Blackbirds and I don't know when or if I dare replace it with a new one in case they don't approve! .

[ameno]

Finally had a dry day, so I shredded the cherry branches from a couple weeks ago.
I managed to get almost all of them done, but then the shredder stopped working. The blades spin, but at a far lower speed than they are meant to. Looks like I'll probably need to replace the shredder. I've been meaning to get another one for a while, anyway, as this one has a design flaw where thin, whippy stems often just pass straight through the machine, missing the blades, and thus don't get shredded.

[annie8]

Wasn’t loving how my tomatoes were looking in the multi purpose compost from Lidl so moved them into John ones no.2 and already looking happier. Also planted out my peas - douce Provence that I started in autumn and aderbano peas that I started a month or so ago in the greenhouse.

[Nicos]

I too spent the day shredding ameno.
My machine needs it’s blades sharpening.

[annie8]

Did a bit of shredding at the weekend. Mainly buddleia that I had cut back. Put the results on the border. Also potted on chillis.

[peanut]

Yesterday I continued to snip up pyracantha pruings, which is quite possibly the most dangerous job in the world! My neighbour gave me a bin bag of buddleia shreddings for my compost bin.

[peanut]

Planted my Nicola potatoes, exactly one month earlier than last year, that is a real result for me! Also popped in a few Anya as there was space, not sure where the rest of them will go, bags probably.