What I did today 2012-2014

[Dorothy rouse]

Pulled up mange tout, they have been amazing.
Pulled up last of broad beans,some eaten tonight.
Picked chard, eaten tonight.
Picked courgettes,beetroot, potatoes.
Planted out dwarf french beans, and netted!
Planted mint and chillies, from home, to plot.
Watered plot!



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[rustylady]

Looked after grandchildren while daughters practiced make-up and hairdos for forthcoming wedding. When everyone had gone home I escaped to the lottie and picked 5 and a half pounds of blackcurrants.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Scoffed lunch quickly and managed to put in a few rows of Frubund turbo carrots where the onions were. Also did a bit of weeding and watering and tidied up the beans.

This evening, I potted on my new comfrey plants (started from root cuttings) and sage (from a cutting rooted in water) and thyme (started from seed). Sowed a tray of April cabbages, potted on a pepper plant that was screaming out for a larger pot. Picked some french beans.

[Two_Sheds]

Yesterday was a perfect summer day (warm sun, no wind) so I spent most of it on the lotty

- watered everything, with a large splash of comfrey/seaweed/slug tea in each can
- harvested the lentils
- picked runner beans (finger length, no bigger or they go stringy)
- sowed a dozen rows of quick (early) seeds in the gaps where crops have come out: carrots, radish, lettuce etc
- continued pinching out & tieing in the climbing beans
- caught about 25 cabbage whites in my fishing net
- spread my neighbour's grass clippings on the beds as a mulch
- cut down the asparagus ferns, beetle larvae included, and put in the daleks
- chopped up alfalfa & comfrey leaves, left on beds as a mulch
- very little weeding to do now that the chop n drop mulch is doing its job
- peas are over now, so left them to set seed
- beetroot is bolting (too dry) so pulled up to make soup. Sowed a pinch of carrot seed in the holes
- caliente mustard (green manure, for white rot) has now dried on the plants, so cut it down to gather the seed to use next year
- ID'd the mystery allium seeds as red salad onion. Got 100s: packeted them up
- deadheaded the flowers around the perimeter fence to keep them going. Nobody's weedkillered them yet so perhaps we're winning?
- made blackcurrant & bramble ice cream

[rustylady]

Yesterday made jam from half of the harvested blackcurrants, and prepped the other half for blackcurrant juice. Still to decide what to do with it (icecream, sorbet, Ribena, or what)

Today sowed 3 rows of carrots, a row of beetroot, a row of spinach beet, and a row of spring onions after talking 3 year old grandson through a thunderstorm. He was very good

[MrsCordial]

RustyLady well done with your grandson. My youngest is four and gets the screaming ab-dabs about thunder - I have no idea why as we all love a good storm. I wish we had them more often so he could get over it.

Planted lots of cardboard. I'm going away for a few days and need to be able to find my veg when I get back, so pulled up the stouter weeds and laid cardboard over the turned earth.

I'm hoping to get to grips with bio-thingy lunar planting, so held off planting anything today.

[Snadger]

Dug up a carrier bag of Kestrel tatties. Dug over the area they were in and dibbled in some leeks I had waiting in the wings.
Harvested four courgettes and half a carrier bag of French beans for the freezer.
I have apples and pear treas growing as cordons up the side of my plot. Pruned off all the extraneous growth which was starting to shade my neighbours plot. All pruned down to six foot now. tied up toms and watered all indoor plants

[Florence Fennel]

Well here's a first. I was ill in bed most of the day and was surprised when Himself said the toms had blown over. I asked him to tie them to the fence and said that they had gone over easily because they should have been watered last night. Amazingly, he's watered them!

[Ananke]

I spread this over a few days. As I harvest, I have been cooking sauces etc and freezing some and canning some.

[Feral007]

Been sick last 2 days, so nothing done. Guess today is going to be very busy then. Catch you all at the end of it.

[susieq100]

Lots of tidying in the garden at home. OH mowed the lawns and did the edges - I tidied borders, cut back the jungle of undergrowth and did all those jobs that have been 'waiting'. Plenty more to do but it looks a lot better.

[hollychap]

creosoted the inside of the chuck hut ,cut the hedges now its barby & beer time

[Soylent Green]

I pulled out my diseased and bug ridden cucumbers, courgettes and spaghetti squash. I cut back my tomato plants that were going mad, I sowed perpetual spinach, three loads of chard, kale and Japanese salad greens. I also weeded, tidied up the garden and sorted stuff to go to the tip tomorrow....a busy day!

[Fishgirl]

What is your recipe for courgette and bacon sauce.or any ideas of what to do with lots of courgettes any ideas gratefully recieved

[rustylady]

Cleared the Summer PSB after cutting the last few spears

Lots of weeding.

Harvested two more courgettes, french beans and aforesaid PSB.