What I did today 2012-2014

[Likac66]

Went up to the plot at 8am to water. It was already 30deg in the polytunnel and the door had been left open all night. Harvested big bag of peas as well as some courgettes. Strung another cucumber plant that's growing quite well now.

[Martin H]

Watering and weeding the allotment, brought home peas, kohl rabi, potatoes and lettuce.
Came home and planted out my Hampton Court purchases (), did lots of weeding and watering. The thermometer on the shed showed 31 degrees in the shade.

[hellybore]

Over the last few days I have:
Put a plastic sheet over the new planned bed next to the apple tree.
Made the bed with the PSB a foot longer and sowed coriander in the new bit.
Sowed pak choi seeds.
Tied in rampant growth of cucumber and squash plants in the blowaway.
Thinned out the apples on the eating apple tree - packed choc full with apples!
Picked lots of salad leaves and flower petals.
Sat around a lot in the sun admiring it all!

[Two_Sheds]

- spent another 2hrs watering, weeding & picking. Sick of it, actually. We are desperate for rain
- planted out a dozen 'forgotten' Primo cabbages
- and a dozen calabrese. It's too hot to plant really, but they'll die in their modules too
- Gave in and fed & watered the strawb that are lying prostrate on the ground from thirst
- finally the beans & sweetcorn have started to grow (in July !!) so a crop is possible after all
- watered the dogs under the tap, who were up the lotty all day with me, panting
- came home early to enjoy the paper in the sun, to find fog. Fell asleep on the sofa 4pm. Woke just now

[treepixie]

Picked a load of courgettes and made courgette chutney

[Indigo23]

Best part of three hours spent hand weeding the broad bean bed. OH, strimmed the parts that we've yet to cultivate and we've spotted some raspberries ready for picking so will take a container with us when we go up later to water.

[hamesy]

My dad watered the plot while I put some netting over my sprouts. Also pulled up some beetroot and a few onions.

[Loudbarker1]

Hot in NW KEnt too.

Harvested and cleared last of spring sown boradbeans - over for another year. They will be replaced byPSB and swede plants ready to go in pots. Out with old in with the new!

Watered all soft fruit, courgettes, cucumbers, tomatos, french beans

Harvested lettuce, first courgette.

Harvested loads of tayberries - great success this year I believe because of "proper" pruning last year - removing old wood and giving new wood a chance.

Pinkcurrents, white currents and redcurrents all coming on, as are a taste of blueberries.

I really need to think about planting/sowing to keep goining in the autumn winter

[rustylady]

Lifted the last 3 plants of Pentland Javelin (or maybe not Pentland Javelin) - good harvest.

Planted a dozen celeriac plants.

Dug out the root of the neighbours so**ing bramble that keeps coming through under the fence and dug a hole for a new fence post.

Cleared some of the excess strawberry plants as they were taking over the plot.

Picked salad leaves and radish pods.

[Penellype]

Picked salad leaves, peas and tomatoes (Shirley, on the windowsill), and noticed a cabbage white butterfly laying eggs on the pak choi. Its bolting anyway, but a timely reminder to protect those brassicas before they get shredded.

[Bren In Pots]

Dug out a huge fern and in its place I've sown some wild flowers. I know its late / too early but some of my other wild flowers are producing seeds so i thought I'd give it a go.

[maisiem]

- sown out some more beetroot, carrots, little gem, spinach, swede, and peas
- played greenhouse tetris with my tomatoes and taken out one of the stagings to make room for the moneymaker tomatoes to be tied up. The Garden Pearls are on the staging that is in the greenhouse and the chilli and peppers are on my workbench - not sure where the cucumbers are going
- put netting up over my pots to keep the cheeky thrushes from eating the tender leaves.

[binley100]

Picked cherries, made plum and liquorice chutney (trying to make space in the freezer) , made blackcurrant and merlot jam, watered stuff at home, went to lottie and watered stuff there.....

tomorrows job is to stone the cherries so they can fill the space I made in the freezer.....

[PyreneesPlot]

Fed & watered, made nettle tea, planted out first 100 leeks at last.

[Snadger]

Harvested some japanese onions. Lost about one in ten to white rot, which is acceptabe. Tickled over the area where they were and sowed three rows of Pak Choi. I've never eaten or grown it so we'll see.