What I did today 2024.

[Jungle Jane]

Cut down the last bean teepee today,chop & dropped as a mulch over the plants roots. Weeded the area I’m planting my red onions. Fed the broccoli & foxgloves some BFB & some liquid seaweed for the leeks & borage that are growing together. Pruned the rosemary & took some for the roast potatoes with garlic I’m just cooking now.

[Andraste]

Finished harvesting the Gigantes, put away all the bean/mangetout canes, cleared that end of the bed, cut back the comfrey & spread it on the surface before covering for winter.

Pulled a swede & a couple of parsnips.

Put in some short canes to support the PSB & tied them in, removing a few tatty lower leaves at the same time.

Chopped some wood from our scrap pile & loaded it into the incinerator bin (borrowed from a plot neighbour) ready for burning hopefully in the next week or two.

Did a very token amount of weeding.

Remembered to bring home the secateurs for oiling & sharpening.

[Jungle Jane]

Today I planted the ‘electric’ red onion sets with some old compost,watered with nettle fertiliser & covered with fleece,I took a photo to plan what space have I got left,my small leeks are on the right underneath the sunflowers & some borage still flowering

[Jungle Jane]

Yesterday I pruned the buddleia down to about five foot for now,I can see the bird feeders easier from the house now. Starlings have a way of alerting the sixty or so pack,a group come here,eat fly off & return with the gang. Today at 8am,along with mealworms I peeled & chopped a homegrown apple into tiny pieces & a hot cross bun,the ground food looks all gone now they’re back on the feeders again,they eat so much but there’s a lot of them….Todays birds,robin,sparrows,great tit,collared doves,pigeon,starlings,a magpie that was at first being chased out the garden by the crow,the crow didn’t land here but it did a big wing span over the magpie/garden to chase it out,they were both on the neighbours roof being calm,is the crow like a guardian for the smaller birds,looking after them all,it seems like it….

[Bren In Pots]

Leaf collecting and removing spent lettuce yesterday.

[Bren In Pots]

Removed the last bits of my Tall french beans then tidied the canes away. Weeded the bulb fennel bed, and parsnip bed.

[Nicos]

Raked up more leaves. Didn’t have a chance to bag them up

[peanut]

Planted up a bed with a lavender hedge border all filled in with erigeron. Hopefully as it fills out it will be a carpet of pretty little erigeron flowers edged by lavender, be low maintenance and deer proof! You hear that muntjacs!

[Nicos]

^^^ frilly daisies!…pretty!
Did you go for white or a different colour/mix?

Good luck with those muntjacs. Not easy .

[Mark Rand]

Weeded and cultivated the bit of raised bed that doesn't have leeks in it, then planted garlic into it.

[Jungle Jane]

Watered my broccoli,nemesia,geraniums & marigolds with seaweed fertiliser. Watered the lettuce & rocket with plain water,I didnt water the onions,they had a small bit of rain the other day. Cut the grass edges round the bed & put it around the nasturtium. Little bit of weeding. Planted some left over red onions into two containers,covered with fleece on the patio.