What I did today 2012-2014

[Nes]

Picked lots of cherries from my neighbour's wild cherry tree (he did kindly offer them to me!), and have spent several hours dealing with them all. Some now freezing on trays for use at a later date, some sitting in a kilner jar with sugar and brandy, some in another jar with sugar and some eau de vie which we were given years ago and have never drunk, some more are in homemade cherry ice cream, and the more in sorbet. Have kept a few back for eating raw tomorrow - lovely and much sweeter than I was expecting from a wild tree. Just hope I've done them justice!

[Penellype]

Picked loads of tomatoes (Shirley, Totem, Sungold), a couple of courgettes, a few raspberries (complete with beetle larvae), a couple of onions and some baby carrots. Rapidly collecting a fridge full of courgettes - need to make some soup tomorrow.

[hellybore]

Harvested elephant garlic, more French beans and 3 courgettes. Planted new raspberry cane (£1) and perennial sweet pea (50p). Propped up all the tomato stems that the wind had knocked over. Tied in more rampant squash growth in the blowaway - no sign of any squashes yet, but have been reading posts about hand-pollination and will give that a go if any more flowers appear.

[Snadger]

Cut a sweetheart cabbage to take to my Son's house along with some eggs. Cut a cross in the top of the stem to hopefully promote a few more smaller heads.
Rolled up the netting on my Calabrese bed and weeded the bed. Cut four calabrese heads for freezing.
I had a whitecurrant bush under the netting also and harvested about 2 kilo of whitecurrants from it. My other whitecurrant bushes, along with the redcurrant bushes have been stripped bare by the birds. Guess who will be netting these next year.
Still loads of blackcurrants and gooseberries to harvest yet. Easiest to prune a branch off the blackcurrants and strip it of berries once cut.

[Martin H]

Went to Hyde Hall flower show
Sowed spring cabbage "April" in modules
Cut out fruited canes of summer raspberries and tied in the new ones.

[binley100]

Turned two compost heaps , did some weeding , did some picking.....

[maisiem]

- Weeded the raised beds.
- Took out last of rocket and radishes as they had gone to seed.
- cut back courgette leaves as it's overshadowing some other veg.
- picked peas and tidied up the stems/leaves.
- emptied a bag of Charlotte potatoes, quite pleased with the yield.
- dug up a couple of onions whose neck had rotted from being shaded by courgette.
- watered tomatoes in greenhouse.
- watered potatoes in sacks.

[Tiberius]

Dug up the last of my tatties and planted my Xmas ones; Charlotte and Duke of York (the song then got stuck in my head and is driving me a little insane, especially as I don't know all the words!) Planted some sweet peas and a couple of pots of French Beans that I found hidden away under the lettuce and made them a pretty teepee with some canes and a bit of netting. I then sat back and relaxed, watching the butterflies lay their eggs on my brassicas, but I was then happy to spot my toad eat a couple of them!

[rustylady]

Here you go Tiberius

Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men,
He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again.

And when they were up they were up

And when they were down they were down

And when they were only half way up, they were neither up nor down.

[Martin H]

Dug up the last of my second early potatoes. A fair amount of slug damage but still a reasonable crop.
Picked the blotched and diseased leaves off my maincrop Ratte potatoes, I don't think it's late blight (stems are fine) but don't want it spreading anyway.
Spread out my onions to dry on a sheet of old double glazing which will dry quickly after any showers.
Picked kohl rabi, french beans, lettuce, a cabbage and four nice gladioli.

[Likac66]

Went to allotment and cleared the lettuce, turnips, radishes and peas that were going to seed and over. Resowed mixed lettuce, corn salad and beetroot. Pulled up all the weeds by the side of the potatoes and cut all the stems off the second early potatoes and will dig them up when we get back from holiday in 2 weeks.

Harvested lemon crystal cucumber, black cherry toms, gardeners delight toms, muncher cucumbers, purple French beans, carrots, courgettes, lots of lettuce.

[Florence Fennel]

Sowed more coriander and weeded in general.

[hamesy]

Today I harvested my onions, some lettuce, broad beans, courgettes and a few spring onions.

I also planted out some leeks.

[veggiechicken]

Stayed indoors for most of the day - although I did manage to sort all the newly acquired pots into sizes by darting in and out between downpours
Also emptied all the old seed packets that I found amongst the pots into mixes of flower seeds and veggies. I'll scatter them in separate places - that way I won't end up eating Candytuft - although that does sound rather tasty

[jayjaybee]

Cleared some ground to make a wild flower patch then figured that it is the wrong time of year to even think about sowing the pkt of seeds I have, which in turn led me to look through all my old flower seeds (some over 10 yrs old, so may not stand a chance) to see which could be sown now. Then decided instead to sow small qty into modules to check viability. Picked last of summer reasps as we are forecast rain tonight. Along with general harvesting.