What I did today 2012-2014

[Bren In Pots]

It stopped raining earlier so i turned my compost bins then bagged up some leaves.

[Hayley]

Removed all the tomato, cucumber & pepper plants from the blow away greenhouse and proceeded to dismantle and re-pack the greenhouse into its box for winter.

Swept all the leaves into a corner and bagged them up.

Still lots more clearing to do but it started to rain so decided to call it a day.

[marcofez]

Battened down the hatches for this coming storm!

[binley100]

Filled the trailer with bark chippings , barrowed the bark chippings from trailer onto plot, harvested, weeded in the fruit cage, topped up the mulch round the blueberries and cranberry, came home and peeled a ridiculous amount of sweet chestnuts .....

[rustylady]

Yesterday I pulled up the last of the beans, put the canes in the shed, and brought home a bag of beans to shell.

Also picked the last courgette. Compost bins now full.

[marcofez]

Finally managed to plant out 2 rows of garlic.

[stella]

Potted up the living salad leaves

[rustylady]

Sat watching the rain pour down the windows. Cleared up around 3, so took the dog for a walk to the lottie and picked some salad leaves, parsley, and a couple of radishes for tea tonight.

[wellywoo]

Not much but Isis make my first batch of red onion chutney


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[Feral007]

Monday mulched all but one garden bed.
Tuesday, wednesday watered all but two garden beds
Tuesday potted on a huge amount of zuchinni's and pumpkins. Watered all the other little seedlings, resowed some of the smaller pots with more seeds.

Decided I need cucumber seeds and bean seeds. Right now

Payday tomorra, look out seed places.

Oh and I mowed about a third of the yard this morning.

[Littlefox2000]

Managed to get down to the plot on Sunday for a big clear out. All the sweet corn had blown down in the storm, so that all came out, along with the courgette and squash plants, which had finally succumb. Mulched the beds with manure once empty.

Then cleared the poly tunnel, taking down all the cucumber and aubergine plants and cutting down their supports. I also removed the cucamelons. I know you can over winter them, but I was really disappointed with them to be honest. It took an age for them to grow and even then I probably only got a handful. Lots of flowers and tiny fruit appeared, but didn't swell. In fact the tips were black and they just fell off the plant. Very disappointed to be honest. I also removed the asparagus peas, which in my opinion were another failure. Took ages to grow, and hardly produced any pea pods.

The shed is finally waterproof and useable, so all the kit that was in the poly tunnel got moved into the shed. Hooray!

Finally I planted out some overwintering broad beans and peas.

A busy but productive day.


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[stella]

Took the netting off the Autumn fruiting raspberries and packed it away for next year. Was surprised to find some red berries ready for picking and some still growing!!

[rustylady]

Added another sack of leaves to the wire cage on the allotment. Did a bit of weeding, and watched a blackbird have a bath in the puddle on top of next door's compost bin.

Picked some more Moonlight runners for shelling.

[hamamelis]

Made it down the allotment for the first time in a while- the grass really needs cutting, but my strimmer's still bust. Weeded, cleared away the last of the pumpkins (the courgette's still being pathetically optimistic and trying feebly to flower, so I'll give it a little longer), and picked a few late raspberries.

Took in the bridgewater beans I'd left on to dry, as the stems were dry through.

[Two_Sheds]

- collected another 8 sacks of autumn leaves off the pavements & cycle lanes
- planted strawb, broad beans, limnanthes & blackcurrants at my new school
- gathered seaweed off the beach, rinsed it & left on soil as a mulch
- some of the green manures are knee high (because of the warm autumn) so I cut these & laid the cuttings on the poorest sections of the lotty, to rot down & improve that soil
- paths are weedy again (due to warm autumn) so covered them with thick newspaper mulch (far, far quicker than hoeing)
- mowed the lawn (in November! crazy), added clippings to the sacks of leafmould