What I did today 2023.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on Basil and dug up dandelions from the lawn.

[ameno]

Did a whole load more potting on. I potted on the last of my peppers, and also all of my watermelon plants. I pricked out and potted up my tomatillos and cape gooseberries, and I took some cuttings from my overwintered cape gooseberries and potted those up.

[peanut]

Yesterday I began the task of filling the link-a-bord bed, emptied in a load of pots from last year and sprinkled some FBB in. Then added some of my own compost, which is pretty old and resembles fine soil more than fluffy compost, not sure if that is normal as it's the first time I've had my own matured compost. The bed is still only 2/3rds full so will add more of my compost and some bagged manure to finish.
My sciatica started twingeing after all that shovelling so I called it a day.

[Jungle Jane]

Potted on the final tomato plant yesterday,sixty three in total. Seems a reasonable amount

[ameno]

Earthed up my potatoes, covered my onions with insect mesh to keep the leaf miner off, and did some more digging.
Also potted up my sprouted squash seeds.

[peanut]

Pricked out my begonias and petunias and the last of the aubergines, peppers and chillies.

[ameno]

Potted up some more sprouted squash seeds, and two more sweet potato cuttings.
Pruned the buddleia, the two big roses, the rambling rose and the cotoneaster.
Repotted the big lemon tree and the trifoliate orange.
Dug most of the garden veg patch.

[Bren In Pots]

Finally after a week I've got one courgette to germinate, just waiting for the other 6 in the H/propagator to show.

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I was playing about with an ants nest & I didn’t even realise,I was emptying out a large container of compost & putting it in a bag so I could plant the potatoes & then refill with the compost,then I saw ants all in the bag & all in the container,it was really off putting,I just watered it all & then stopped doing that. Got the blowaway out the shed & set that up instead,it’s ready to start taking plants in & out soon. Did three buckets full of weeding,a lot of dandelions here & loads of busy bees around the broccoli flowers,I had to be careful not to be in their path between plants although they were friendly & didn't come at me at all

[peanut]

Planted most of my sweet peas, some up arches others up an obelisk and my broad beans. Hoed all the fruit and veg beds.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on toms, courgettes and cucumbers.
Dug out a mushroom tub of dandelions out of the lawn, I’ve been doing that every day

[ameno]

Yesterday and today I did some more digging, and now have the whole allotment plot dug.
Planted out my gutter of peas.
Potted up some more sprouted squash seeds, as well as sweetcorn, french beans and runner beans.

[annie8]

Potted on most of my tomatoes and repotted the chilli plants that I overwintered. Sowed out some peas and pruned my lemon verbena.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out sweet peas and rehomed self seeded nasturtiums.

[ameno]

Strimmed the allotment paths; potted up some more sweet potato cuttings; repotted my peach tree, and two overwintered cape gooseberry plants; and repotted my melon and okra plants.