What I did today 2012-2014

[Feral007]

Got wet with the farrier. At least I don't have to worry about watering the new plants in. Al done for me. And nice rain, not a torrential downpour. Best get out in a minute and check they didn't all blow over last night in the storm though.

[Florence Fennel]

Went to check on the kale I transplanted earlier in the week. Stalks, all stalks. So the grit and salt idea didn't work. Fed the tomatoes and the chillies in the stayput. Picked up loads of apples that have fallen prematurely from the tree and are full of scabs. Definitely feels like one of, if not the worst growing seasons I've had.

[binley100]

poor flo ......I've started slug pelleting the path around the beds , trying to entice them away from the good stuff......
Today I harvested, watered, chatted, dehydrated, frozen and prepared ..........

[Loudbarker1]

Half an hour this morning - picked french beans, cucumber, tomatos (many blighted) and courgettes. Watered cucumbers and tomatos.

I am very pleased with the "plant halos" - if it were not for the blight (and in this season escaping that would have been a miracle) it would have been an excellent crop. The cucs in halos are good too, but it's only my second year growing them.

Here's a link:Garland Plant Halos Set of 3 - Garden Essentials

PS also put down just a few slug pellets round french beans

[Snadger]

Donned the welders gloves and tackled a bed of nettles interspersed with bindweed!

Still got nettled to bits on my arms as pulling out bindweed dragged nettles all over me.

As allotment secretary one has to set an example!

[Florence Fennel]

Have taken delivery of some half price bra' plants today, so the large plants I've grown on have had to be planted out and are now at the mercy of the snugs (well, some of them, it started chucking it down so I had to stop). I did manage to get the plants out of the boxes and half of them are now in pots, t'other half are still in their wrappers but standing in water until tomorrow.

[binley100]

Bought an auto bean slicer gadgie , went to work , made some jam ......

[horticultural_hobbit]

Started to newspaper mulch bed number six, got about a third done of the 12m2. Had a froggie jump out at me, causing me jump myself and blaspheme.

Curried some kiddly beans with home made garlic for dad's dinner.

Rummaged in garlic crop and saved some to re-plant.

[Florence Fennel]

Well, those plants are really standing in a lot of water now, there's been a rainstorm throughout the day, so no chance of planting them. Roasted peppers, courgettes, tomatoes, onions, garlic, basil and oregano in olive oil. Slapped some on a roast pork sandwich at tea time. Oh and in a few minutes break in the rain, collected 38 snugs. One of them was about 8" long and embedded in a ripe tomato in the stayput.

[Loudbarker1]

Over weekend I did a liile weding, harvested last new potatos, a few tomatos, last of current flush of cucumbers (shold be more in Sptember if weather keeps up) courgettes (of course) and three fab red cabbages (if I say so myself) which I braised to put into freezer for long winter evenings. Picked sweetpeas (good this year) and pot marigolds. transplabted perpetual spinage into space where potatos were. Watered soft fruit cucs etc. Toms too blightyl t be worth it now - they need pulling out.

Also mowed lawn.

Looking ahead, need to propogate soft fruit, sow and transplant autumn salads (corn salad, claytonia etc) (and furthr out broad beans and sweet peas) prune tayberry, clear bindweed, put down layer of light excluding membrane over cleared bits, removed hedge clippings etc.

[Two_Sheds]

- fed (comfrey/seaweed/slug tea) & watered the pumpkins & French beans again
- picked more shelly beans although I ought to be drying them for seed
- pulled more onions to dry off in the gh
- dug the last spuds out
- harvested beetroot seed and chopped up the plants
- sowed green manures in the vacated space
- picked caterpillars off the (netted) cabbages
- finally planted out the last few leeks
- started digging out strawb runners to give away
- picked loads of raspberries for the freezer (wine, jam)
- cut the comfrey again and left it on the ground round the beans as a mulch
- tried to drown out the ants which have nested under my only butternut and are killing it
- continued to pull yellowing foliage off the French beans to ripen the pods quicker
- continued to put a newspaper mulch on top of the worst weeds (grass, couch)
- took more bay, dahlia & rose cuttings

[susieq100]

Yesterday. Made piccallili with all home grown veggies - though I did have to use some bought cauli as mine were pathetic and started bolting after they got any bigger than a golf ball. Cleared out the old strawberry bed. Onions are now all dried and in garage. Noticed that B&M have their autumn planting onions in stock - cheap too. Will have to get some I think.

[susieq100]

Jungle clearance at the plot. Found the bay tree I planted in the spring!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Finished of bed six, and started half of bed seven with newspaper mulch. Can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Plan to have all eight done by half term.

[hamesy]

Finished off my paths with the slabs I had delivered last week, it really sets it off.



Jobs left to do before the end of this year:
Build some coldframes
Make a gate