What I did today 2024.

[Bren In Pots]

Fed toms, cucumbers and courgettes and potted on some mixed lettuce plants.

[Jungle Jane]

Today I planted out another black cherry tomato with sweet pepper & pink petunia,also pendulina tomato with French marigold,watered most the plants out there,fed some with seaweed.

[Containergardener]

Bit of watering and moved some pots around, sowed seeds, deadheading.

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I planted a vernissage tomato with an Amy sweet pepper & French marigold in a large pot. Pruned the plum tree. Bit of weeding. Watered all the little pots,wondering where am I going to plant the rest. When the garlic comes out there’ll be space for broccoli

[Andraste]

At the weekend:

OH put together an arch with a gate for the entry to the plot. We'd hoped to secure it to the existing arch our berries grow over but typically it was slightly narrower than expected. Meanwhile I spent a good hour picking strawberries & generally staying out of his way

Raked a bit more earth over the spuds. Tied in some broadies as well as the squash & cucs (we're growing them upwards). A bit of half-hearted weeding. The blackfly have had a resurgence on a few of the broadies so they got squished & will be squirted with some washing up liquid/water ASAP.

Marvelled at the growth since last weekend. Most of the brassicas are looking good but the cabbage have had a bit of a munching from slugs/snails No chatting this visit as the plot was strangely quiet for a dry day

[ameno]

Strimmed the allotment paths, and some more watering.

Also discovered that something has ransacked by gooseberry bush, and I've now lost about half of the fruit. Pretty sure it was a badger, just by the trampling and the grey hairs I found. It didn't even eat most of them, though. They're all over the ground under the bush. They're also not even ripe yet. I'm wondering if the fruit was even it's target, or whether it was just passing through, got aggravated by the thorns, then thrashed about a bit and knocked a load of the fruit off.

[Andraste]

Sorry to hear about your gooseberry losses ameno

The birds (I think) have knocked a few off ours too & I'd have be much happier about it if they'd eaten them rather than leaving them on the ground.

I've consoled myself that the remaining fruit might be bigger as a result of the impromptu thinning (but I may just be fooling myself there).

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I planted out six sunflowers,sprinkled BFB around,watered everything. We had a bit of rain but when I was planting the sunflowers,it was so dry under the top 2cm of soil. Tidied the strawberry bed of dead leaves,picked a small dish of strawberries,they’re getting smaller now,nearly finished. Pruned the flowering currant a bit,I can now there’s no wasp nest in there

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out some mixed lettuce then potted on Blauhilde French beans that will replace those the slugs have eaten.

[Jungle Jane]

Planted out a bit more today,the last two sunflowers,eight more foxgloves,one urbikany tomato plant & two broccoli covered with net curtain surround.

[MelanieSW]

Managed to weed the 2 brassica and yacon beds on the allotment before the rain drove me back inside

[ameno]

Removed some of the lowest leaves ffrom the greenhouse tomatoes, did a small amount of weeding, and sowed some more radishes.

[Containergardener]

Watered and fed
Deadheading

[Containergardener]

Chopped back some perennials , deadheading, harvesting, planting of annuals, seed sowing

[Jungle Jane]

Planted another courgette & foxglove. Made some nettle fertiliser. Pruned flowering currant a bit more. Deadheaded buddleia,petunias & marigolds & a bit of weeding.