What I did today 2012-2014

[kentishgal]

No actual work done but I did invite my parents round to witness the progress, as they are the only gardening experts I know!LOL They hadnt seen it since it was empty beds and borders...
Well, they gave me 10/10 for my efforts! They were shocked at how big the plants were (honestly Im shocked at how big alot of the plants are and the cabbages will have to be removed as they are verging on godzilla size!).
The kale was a huge hit, both for size and for plonking some in the flower beds!
Its nice to get some confirmation you are doing a good job, isnt it??

[Samurailord]

Harvested three more sticks of rhubarb from the four year old plant that has never produced anything before this season - must like all the rain!

Also took a handful of leaves from the lettuce in a pot by the front door for tea.

Andy

[Bren In Pots]

I got my leeks planted out and even had time to tidy things up before it started raining.

[Two_Sheds]

absolutely nothing. Drizzle all day, again.

[Niall]

Weeded all areas outside. Pulled up some potatoes, rescued a chaffinch and then updated my blog!

[Loudbarker1]

Put down slug pellets to protect newly sown (and germinated) endive, lettuce, perpetual spinage, raddachio. That should fix the ******s.

Got the *******s - all shrivelled up this mornng , and the salads all survived.

Inspected garden before going to work. Decided red cabage and savoys planted too close together and probably too early (was it May?)

PSB planted out 4 weeks ago mostly looking poorly (3 survived out of 6) but interplanted swede looking strong.

Ate very ripened tayberries - very dark red, some were nice but some had lost the sharpness and were disappointing.

Courgettes have really perked up over last fortnight and leeks coming along nicely. Artifically pollenated pumpkin.

Wanted to water, but other half away and looks as if she took the shed key so I can't get at my watering cans/hose. Back on Sunday evening so emergency watering will be needed then.

Sweetpeas now flowering, cornflowers, pot marigold and nerstrums (how do you spell that) all looking good. Need to dose bindweed with roundup - have to be next weekend.

[kentishgal]

Well, now the jet stream has shifted Ive been out prepping for summer today!
Pulled out the mahoosive cabbages, old spinach and pathetic radishes. Then sowed lettuce, spinach, beetroot, carrots, turnips, dwarf beans and spring onions (I know I still have time to fit a baby veg crop in before winter stuff!).
Took alot of the yellow lower foliage off the toms, then covered my newly planted beds in abit of plastic mesh to deter the cats.
Hoping the heat will spur on the tiny toms and midget cukes!

[Florence Fennel]

Cleared the broad beans up. Chopped up to lasagne a new growbed. Fenced in the pumpkins. Watering tomatoes later, sunny all day

[rustylady]

Managed to cut about a third of the hayfield in the back garden.

[Florence Fennel]

Planted out some fennel. Tried to rescue some snugged courgettes - put buckets with the bottom cut out over the top for a bit. Mmm, we'll see. Tidied up the potting bench. I've thrown loads of plastic containers out that served as saucers for the plants. Still have a collection of them indoors in the cupboard. Worked out what I'm doing tomorrow, planned around youngest son coming to cut the grass. We live in hope.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Compiled half an order, of garlic and over wintering onions for the autumn. Smiled a little as the raised beds are on the way.

Tomorrow, will try to get to the plot and continue weeding if I can.

[Niall]

Fertilised. Then had to work! I just updated my blog though and picked off some slugs whilst taking pictures...

[PyreneesPlot]

Cleared mildewed peas, dug in compost and planted ot some savoy and red cabbage. Planted some haricots.
Dug up path in pursuit of a mole - did see its nose - that had the balls to produce a mole hill right in front of me and two of the cats. I still have the mole and a hole in the path as well. No dinner for the cats.
Picked, grated, salted and squeezed, and then froze courgettes.
Sowed radishes, perpetual spinach and rhubarb chard.

[Jelliebabe]

Weeded weeded weeded - then picked picked picked picked

[Two_Sheds]

- another 3 hrs weeding (bloddy grass ):
- harvested the dried broad bean seed for next year
- sowed buckwheat green manure in the gaps left by harvested spuds
- sowed alfalfa edges to all my beds
- used & topped up all the comfrey feed bottles (10)
- used up all the rainwater from the butts (it doesn't go far)
- chopped up my green manures (which includes weeds & self-sown chard) & left on soil as a mulch
- turned over all my slug hotels (planks of wood) and salted all who huddled underneath
- fed the spuds, beans & squashes (comfrey & seaweed tea)
- cleaned up the ungrown shallots, which will be replanted next year
- moved more toms out of the gh and onto the patio, now that summer (of sorts) is here
- took 3 carrier bags of leaves off the tomatoes, because I think I spotted botrytis on one plant