What I did today 2012-2014

[Skotch]

picked the last of the peas - Hurst Greenshaft were magnificent, the supermarket leo's were ok but a bit 'mealy'. Lifted my shallots (Picasso) - excellent growth and on average 7 to 8 bulbs from each planting. Picked more runners (a couple of pounds), some climbing french beans (cant remember variety) - 1 lb, courgettes (6!!!), and generally tended to the squashes, brassicas and the last of the Martock heritage beans.

[PyreneesPlot]

Picked prince Borghese toms for sun-drying.
Watered all the pots twice and most of the veg plots once. Rescued a tray of turnip seedlings which are frying in the heat.
Came back inside - its 37 out there today. At the moment anything more than watering is done before breakfast or in the evening.

[Snadger]

Finally got around to taking a bag of compost to the lottie and planting a tray full of garlic bulbils off the heads of my garlic. This is just an experiment to see what happens.

Planted up six 'skyrocket' chilli's into 6 " pots in the hope they will grow a bit faster than they have been of late.
Progressed with the never ending weeding of the plot.

[Florence Fennel]

Extended the strawberry bed in the hope of a bigger harvest next year. Took the mildewed leaves off the courgettes. Cleaned the water feature - again.

[binley100]

Cleared the weeds out of the brassica bed in the CG .......arms are all now stingy
Made Lemon and ginger marmalade ......

[Two_Sheds]

- took a hoglet home for a good meal: found in middle of road in the midday heat, not good

[Florence Fennel]

Youngest Golden Girl (10 on Tuesday) brought her camera and took some photographs of some of my veg for the virtual show. All we have to do now is get them on to my computer. Blanched more courgettes for the freezer.

[Snadger]

Planted some leeks. More weeding.

[Loudbarker1]

Over last two weeks I have

Planted out lettuce, salad endive a raddicio sown indoors a month or so ago. Sowed more lettuce for over wireing: Winter Gem, All Year Round, Paella Red (quite old seed) , Yugoslavia Red and Winter Marvel.

Harvested Red Duke of York spuds, french beans (both pretty good) courgettes (taking over the garden and very vigorous) tastes of tayberries and red and pink currents and blue berries (all these young and in pots). Sweet peas, nastersuims (sp?), pot marigolds and cornflowers grown on the side successful. As were cucumbers which come in fits and starts. I love these. Must keep them watered.

Picking the odd outdoor tomato, but these are pretty blighted. Pumpkins are eaten by slugs. Weeding, weeding, weeding. Have a couple of good looking red cabbage coming up and (some) swedes look very promising. There is also some cut and come again lettuce coming on, and perpetual spinage (nearly) ready to be planted out.

Also planted about 2 weeks ago turnips, carrots and spring onions - all direct sown - and parsley, rocket and corriander in greenhouse. Rocket germinated well; coriander only a bit and (so far) parsley not at all.

[Helgalush]

Wasn't today but Sunday but we went to the allotment and all the squash plants, sunflowers, nasturtiums and lavenders are flourishing, probably got too much crammed into small beds but it looks good at the moment.

Planted out some spinach, orange leaf beet, and rainbow chard in another bed.

Need to prepare another bed as ran out of room before all the rainbow chard was in, and still couldn't yet fit in the swiss chard and coriander.

[Likac66]

Today I have planted some autumn sowing onion seeds - Ailsa Craig, Senshyu Yellow and Musona white Italian. I also planted some Karmen red onion seeds which I think are actually spring sowing but hey, I can experiment, can't I?

I've also sown some calabrese marathon in one last attempt to get some grown this year. So far the slugs have had every attempt. Plus a few endive and choy sum seeds. No idea what they're like, but we'll give them a go.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Curried Kiddly beans with some home made garlic

[Jamesy_uk]

Went down tut allotment after work and watered up the stuff i planted on the sunday and happily it is all still very much alive and kicking, plus the whole tub of slug pellets I put down has created a mass graveyard of snails and slugs at the edge of the beds which I scraped into a hole (I stopped counting at over 50 slugs and snails and probably 3 times that amount in total).

[Loudbarker1]

This morning at 6am picked french beans, tomatos, courgettes, sweet peas and pot marigolds. Watered cucumbers and tomatos in grow bags. Saw many dead slugs and snails. A lovely way to start the day.

[horticultural_hobbit]

Newspaper mulched one 12m squared bed, got half way through a second one.

Shrugged off someone feeling sorry for me due to all the weeds.