What I did today 2023.

[ameno]

Shredded a load of prunings yesterday, then today I took half the shreddings to the allotment, and planted out all of my runner beans and my Cobra french beans, along with sowing some more carrots to replace the ones which got eaten.

[peanut]

Planted up a couple of wall troughs with busy lizzies. Potted on snapdragons and stocks.
Moved the spring bulb pots out of the way to make room for peonies and summer bedding display.

[annie8]

Planted out some zinnia, cosmos and ridolfia I grew from seed, plus a few dahlias.

[Bren In Pots]

One of my cucumber went floppy and laying horizontal across the pot I cut of the top 1inch popped it in water and a week later its got roots good enough to be potted up

[peanut]

Yesterday I pricked out echinacea, zinnias, dianthus osteospermum, rosemary and marjoram.
Potted up chitted sweet dumpling, potimarron and silver dust squashes.
Netted the new strawberry bed.

[Florence Fennel]

Planted osteospermum and antirrhinum in containers around the garden.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on kale, planted out cutting celery then put my cucumbers into their final pots.

[ameno]

Collected some seaweed on the way home from visiting relatives in Cornwall, then took it to the plot. Half of it went in the compost bin, the other half will be used for mulch.
I also raked poultry manure into the beds I hadn't yet fed, started laying down the black plastic ready for the tender crops, planted out my one surviving pepino plant in the greenhouse, planted out my three pineapple tomatillo plants, and planted out my two overwintered cape gooseberries (I shall overwinter more this year; they not only survived but were really healthy, and are already fair large and flowering).

[peanut]

Yesterday I started chitting more squashes.
Potted up some £1 bargain aubergines, toms and a watermelon that I really didn't need but couldn't resist!
Watered all the pots. I need some rain!

[ameno]

Lots and lots of planting.
I laid more black plastic, and then planted out 11 squash plants, 6 melons, 6 watermelons (3 each of two different varieties), 9 T65 sweet potatoes, 3 Erato Violet sweet potatoes, and 9 blight resistant tomato plants (three each of three different varieties). I also planted out four gherkin plants, and in my greenhouse planted two more melons and two more watermelons (of a third variety). Then I mulched the tomatoes and gherkins with seaweed.

[Bren In Pots]

A weeding day today mostly the parsnip bed, GH borders and around my bean frame.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out my french climbing beans then moved brassica frame onto next bed along.
Replaced the cat netting that’s started to disintegrate.

[Bren In Pots]

Set up the self watering system that’s now home for my cucumbers and Mini Bell tomatoes.
Sprinkled BFB in the brassica cage ready for when I plant my kale in a couple of weeks.

[peanut]

Potted on my earliest sown cucumbers which are covered in fruit and flowers. The nights are still looking too chilly to plant them into their final pots in the greenhouse.
Finally planted the last of my sweetpeas up a couple of obelisks on either side of a bench.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on chard this morning but that was it for gardening.