What I did today 2012-2014

[treepixie]

Harvested come carrots for dinner and a sweet corn, made marrow chutney

[rustylady]

More tidying up at the allotment.

Made the most of the sunshine - it was lovely over there.

Picked 6 sweetcorn cobs - the grandkids are coming for tea tomorrow

[Florence Fennel]

More sieving of roasted tomatoes, garlic and basil for passatts. It may be therapeutic, but it's also bloomin' hard work!

[rustylady]

More sieving of roasted tomatoes, garlic and basil for passatts. It may be therapeutic, but it's also bloomin' hard work!

I bung mine in the liquidiser Flo.

[Florence Fennel]

Got soaked watering the tomatoes when it threw it down with rain

[susieq100]

Labelled my jam and chutneys.

[mothhawk]

Taken down the hanging baskets and put up more bird feeders. Pulled out the pathetic honey bear squash that had just one fruit on, and trimmed some of the lavender.

[rustylady]

Cleared the sweetcorn from the allotment. Lovely harvest - Wilko's Bodacious - son was at home when I got back so saved me from putting all of it in the freezer

[Greenfingerpaula]

Tied in my raspberry canes (what a job, over 10 feet tall, had to curl them over!!), planted my strawberry runners in hanging basket to go with the other 2, pulled out the summer bedding, pulled out the slugs and snails from the border, dead headed the geraniums after they got blasted by this weeks rain, transplanted spring onions, moved cucumbers into GH in the hope the other small 15 or so will grow, froze some scotch bonnets, beamed with glee at the planter my OH had made at work for me 😃



It's made from the plastic rolls they use to transport the truck curtains - it will house marigold, lobelia, thyme and chives when I've finished - he's gonna ask the guy to make me a couple more too lol!

[marcofez]

Tidying up today.
Checked my leeks and they have been attacked by the leek moth!
Will definately cover them next year!! Gonna try some garlic spray on them to see if it gets rid of them.
How much to cover the whole plot with enviromesh?????????

[Sophia-Bubble]

Hey I'm New...

I've been digging some more couch grass out of my new allotment...
💦until it pelted down with rain 💦



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[Snadger]

Finally found somewhere that sold Japanese onion sets. Grabbed a packet of Troy, Radar and after a six year interval, a red variety! Surely they've got there act together now with red onions that don't just run straight to seed?
Picked a couple of bunches of grapes (eaten straight away) like wise sweetcorn and took calabrese,tomatoes and cougettes home from the plot.

Bladdy wasps are starting to eat my grapes so I may have to harvest them all in the near future. I have some where part of the bunches aren't fully ripe. Willthey ripen once cut do you think? Peaches are ripening and I have about 15 which have fallen of the tree. Apples look wonderful (especially braeburn) but are still not fully ripened.

[veggiechicken]

Snadger, I browse on the individual ripe grapes, leaving the bunches in situ to continue ripening. Fiddly, yes, but very satisfying. Some of my bunches only have a few grapes left

[Greenfingerpaula]

Planted a border of daffodil bulbs and forget me nots, pal choi, endives, larkspur (in GH).
Also ventured down the garden into the abandoned shed for the 1st time since I moved in 2 years ago and found LOADS of seed trays and plant pots from previous tenant - bonus!!

[Two_Sheds]

- took cuttings of yew, box & lonicera nitida for my new topiary garden
- picked a bendy bucket full to the brim with shelly beans (partly ripe French bean seeds)
- brought a few pumpkins home, in case light fingers do away with them up the lotty
- picked all the remaining sweetcorn. Sadly, a third were unpollinated, a further third had gone over & hard, but the rest were lovely
- hacked back the ivy/bramble/holly fedge
- emptied the water butts onto the back garden: we're getting so much rain I might as well 'store' it in the ground
- fed the fish (in butts) for the last time this year
- mucked out the guinea pigs and gave them lots of treats: chard, corn cobs, parsley, windfall apples