What I did today 2012-2014

[JustPotteringAbout]

Thursday
Missed getting on BBC television Farm to Fork due to a dental appointment

Friday
Cut back some geraniums (prompted by watching GW)

Saturday night
Looked up sun protection on web; topical blocks and screens; sunhats; clothes and sunglasses.

Sunday
Crunched some seaweed I have been drying in the greenhouse.
Nicked some big cardboard sheets from recycling centre.
Ditto 5L containers
Continued cutting back geraniums
Poked about at the compost heaps, added some compostables
Watered neighbour's garden
Cleaned out neighbour's water butt.
Interrupted when sister visited with her daughters, got short of some broccoli and lettuce.
Visited late dad's partner in alzheimer's residential home.
Selected some reduced gardening stuff (labels, twine, hanging baskets) at Tesco.
Put it all back when I realised I didn't have my wallet.
Neighbour having a barbeque, I'll stay out of the garden until later and give them some privacy
Made salad for gym lunches for next couple of days.
Cleaned out flasks and utensils for yogurt batch for week.
Caught up with the farming news on the home station on iplayer

[Dorothy rouse]

I planted a Cosmos and a French Lavender on my Plot, bought them half price at B & Q, hope the bees like them.


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[Loudbarker1]

I know I shoudl have done a lot more than I did.........

Watered soft fruit, courgettes, tomatos, cucumbers.

Harvested lettuce, first cucumber, french beans, tayberries (great success this year) , whitecurrents, rosecurrents and redcurrents of my own.

Then picked peas, french beans, blackcurrents, gooseberries and red currents at parents.

Should have weeded, planted next of of lettuce, beetroot, etc for succession.

[veggiechicken]

Cut down a buddleia and another hazel (aplogolies ) Having taken off as much as I could with the ratchet loppers it was time for the bow saw. Bear in mind that I am but a weak and feeble old biddy and sawing through those branches (arm thickness) seemed to take for ever. In the end, because the saw kept getting jammed in the cut, I took a sledgehammer to the tree That brought the tree down
I still have to dig the roots out but just topping the trees has opened up that part of the garden to more light. Definitely worth getting hot and sweaty for

[Florence Fennel]

Fed almost everything with last September's Comfrey Tea. Chopped back the comfrey and made 20 litres of tea to replenish the stock.

[rustylady]

Watered the allotment yesterday evening. Pleasant couple of hours in warm (not hot) sunshine. Cut a bunch of sweet peas and some summer PSB and calabrese sideshoots.

[Indigo23]

Nothing allotment or garden-wise yesterday as was beaten to the watering by torrential rain! Still raining! Noticed this morning, as I checked the things in pots waiting to go int he ground that I have some butterfly eggs to rub off of leaves but didn't have time before I left for work. Hope they don't hatch before I can get to them!

[sammy_roser]

cleared out the Radish Rat Tails and planted out Brussel Sprouts and PSB

[Likac66]

Sowed new seeds:

Peas (to replace the ones that will probably have finished in the the next couple of weeks)
Duncan Cabbage
April cabbage
French beans
Rocket
Basil
Autumn broccoli - probably too late but what the heck?
Kale nero
(I think there were more but can't remember what.)

Picked more salad, one lovely ripe marmande tomato and a small cucumber. Oh and more courgettes.

[PyreneesPlot]

Yesterday sowed spring cabbages, beetroot, fennel, lettuce, basil, wallflowers, honesty. Deadheaded roses.
Today planted out pak choi red and green, and rocket, basil, parsley. Cleared peas and cursed bindweed.

[veggiechicken]

More clearance of weeds and brambles. Gave a holly tree a hard prune
Created a random shape out of random tree branches, each random section to be sown with random seeds. The 2 largest sections have been sown with random small flower seeds in one and random large flower seeds in the other. Bring on the rain - lets get these random seeds on the grow

[Two_Sheds]

- 7 hrs up the lotty in the hot humid heat. I love it, but the dog suffers a bit, so she was bathed then left, wet, in the shady shed to nap

- broadies are finished now, so chopped up all the plants except the ones I'm saving for seed. Choppings went straight on the soil as a mulch

- ditto foxgloves & aquilegias: sprinkled their seed around the perimeter fence, to pretty that up a bit
- put taller canes & string in the pea patch, because they're getting taller than they've ever been
- watered the spuds but nothing else because rain is due
- dug up some lovely clean spuds for dinner, replanted the tiddlers
- chopped & dropped the alfalfa & comfrey, sowed another 4 packs of green manures amongst the veg
- laid newspaper mulch over the paths which are full of seeding grass. Quicker & easier than weeding
- weeded the carrots, pulled a few, sowed more in the gaps
- pinched the tops of the climbing beans out
- harvested the rest of the blackcurrants to make ice cream, pruning out the fruited stems as I went
- strawbs are over, so weeded them & added a sprinkle of alfalfa as mulch
- continued pulling bindweed as it appears, so it doesn't get to flower
- dug out more stubborn patches of couch grass: not much now, but mustn't let it get it out of hand
- cut seed heads off chives & onions, for putting into seed packets for next year
- spent a further 2hrs shelling peas & stripping blackcurrants for the freezer
- picked first tomato from greenhouse, fed them all with comfrey & seaweed tea
- sowed 2 short rows of black radish, and 2 of red China Rose

[treepixie]

Picked runner beans, French beans, marrow and yet more courgettes

[Florence Fennel]

Somebody up there likes me! The ground in the cleared pea bed was rock hard on Friday and I was waiting to plant my leeks there. Lo and behold after the rain we've had, I was able to put the leeks in today. Brilliant.

[hamesy]

Just a quick visit today at the plot

-Got on top of the weeding. We've had a lot of rain the last 24 hours so I know they'll be popping up everywhere during the week.
-Pulled up my peas as they had gone yellow and looked past it
-Sown another batch of peas
-Sown some little gem lettuce
-Thinned out some beetroot
-And harvested some beetroot, courgettes, onions, spring onions, few broad beens and some mint.