What I did today 2023.

[Jungle Jane]

Planted out two more tomato plants with French marigolds & two courgette plants near the sweetcorn. Watered everything & used seaweed fertiliser on the sweetcorn,I need to remember to put some BFB around the plants…

[ameno]

Repotted the some basil plants, planted out my spring onions, and thinned the apples and two of three plums (a big job).

[Bren In Pots]

Put cardboard in between my bean row to keep down weeds. Weeded around parsnips those self seeded camomile seedling are still popping up.

[ameno]

Lots of watering, pruned the akebia again, thinned the pear tree, and started weeding the asparagus bed.

[ameno]

Watered the greenhouse, finished weeding the asparagus bed, removed some more diseased leaves from the peach (hopefully most of it now), and fed the peach and the asparagus.
I also have two watermelons developing, which I put in net bags to protect from the slugs. No normal melons as yet, but they have plenty of female flowers, so hopefully not too long.

[Bren In Pots]

Potted up self seeded Oregano and Lemon balm for a friend, lots of weeding especially around seedlings. now I can spot the difference.

[annie8]

Potted on all my tomatoes (20). Thought with 3 x 50l compost I would have enough to put them in their final pots but it wasn’t so half in final pots and the rest in bigger pots. Also potted on my scotch bonnet and Hungarian hot wax chillis. Took hours!

[ameno]

Planted out another sweet potato, several dozen leeks, a gutter of mangetout, and 10 sweetcorn plants in the back garden.

[Jungle Jane]

Watering every day. Yesterday I planted out tomato twenty three,pink Bulgarian. Also put up the second runner bean teepee,planted six beans & a courgette. I’m still planting everything,lettuce is germinating so I took the net cover off. It was quite windy yesterday,tied the tomatoes & cucumbers to the canes,they’re growing fast. I put BFB round the tomatoes,peppers & squash. Earthed up the latest planted charlottes again,I’m using all old compost,gave them all seaweed feed. I need to buy some tomato fertiliser….

[ameno]

Finally got around to thinning my last (and biggest) plum tree today. Took me an hour. The number of fruit on it was absolutely ridiculous. They were hanging from the tree like bunches of grapes. I reckon I've removed about 90% of what was on there, and I think there are probably still too many.

[ameno]

Weeded the broccoli plants, side-shooted and tied in the tomatoes, and raked up a load of grass the strimmer man left behind and mulched my runner beans with it.

[Bren In Pots]

Re-netted my chard the birds have been nibbling all those new leaves.

[Sweet savory]

In GH put peppers and chillis in final pots and potted on Brussels sprouts to get them a bit bigger before they go out. Cleared the broad beans and replanted with leeks.
Watching the La Diva cucumber which so far is living up to it’s name with no fruit set yet. Back to reliable Beth alpha next year unless it gets it’s act together fast.

[Jungle Jane]

My two diva cucumber plants keep giving male flowers,I keep pinching them off,never usually happens it must’ve been the weather. Planted tomato twenty seven yesterday King Humbert,planted up my wall baskets with haum gelbe tomato,orange balm & dainty Marietta marigold (I didn’t sow petunia this year & I didn’t want to buy plants so I used what I’ve got,it’ll be alright,I have got some nasturtium seedlings that would look good trailing down but I’ll leave them where they are because of aphids covering them & looking not good at eye level). Planted out another courgette plant & surrounded it with eggshell because it’s in a dodgy area for slugs,loads of ground spreading plants,not weeds lol (some are weeds ).

[Bren In Pots]

Tied Jerusalem artichoke into bungles hopefully that will give the tall French beans more light.
General weeding and tying in plants.