What I did today 2012-2014

[MrsCordial]

Dry day here today, huzzah! Still cold, grey and damp but not actually raining. So, I finally got the rest of the courgettes, cucumbers and pumpkins planted out plus the tomato that I missed last time. Snapped off a few onion and leek scapes to fry later.

[Noosner]

Snipped off a bite sized cuke from my plant that was doing so wonderfully well and somehow managed at the same time to cut the main stem, about 4 inches above soil level. There was 5 foot of growth above that with lots of young cukes in progress. Snipped off the growing tip and placed it in a glass of my bitter salty tears in the hope it will root and I'll still get cukes later in the summer.

Oh no. So easily done and so irreversible! My sympathies

[george356]

Cleared all the staging from the greenhouse and growbagged the rest of the tomatoes and cucumbers, and potted on peppers and chillies.

The staging is on the patio full of flowers yet to be planted out then I will dismantle it for the summer.











The greenhouse pics to follow

[Bren In Pots]

Erected my bean frame then planted out Scarlet Emperor and Serbian pole beans.

[george356]

Greenhouse pics:-

[george356]

last 3

[roitelet]

Cut the b*******y grass on a high cut, tomorrow cut it shorter!!!!!!

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Do you permanently have a cloth in yer pocket Deano?.............I'm looking for a speck of compost or a dirty pot & can't find any..............

BM! Some call it "Good Husbandry" I call it OCD!

[AllInContainers]

Decided I've still really not got the hang of this gardening lark at all

My cherry tree is gradually losing all it's fruit which is all looking wizzened and dropping off, bar two cherries. Maybe it's age due to it being it's first year fruiting, maybe it's the cold snap, maybe it's nutrition, maybe it's something else altogether. Looks like I need to nurse the two cherries to completion and pray for more blossonm next year.

My blueberries last year weren't fantastic quality due to (possibly) too much fruit for such a small bush, and this year looks like it may be the same. So this weekend, I need to thin the fruit on the bush and see if that affects the quality of the remaining fruit.

Blackcurrants still don't seem to be advancing much. Same with the Jostaberry. Melons are struggling due to weather, but hoping that one or two of the plants pull through.

Another Blueberry bush (too young to fruit) is suffering a lot of browning leaves, but the rest of the bush seems OK. Decided I need to do some ruthless pruning to remove discoloured leaves and stems. Not looking forward to that.

Really not feeling "in control" at the moment, but being my second year I expect these hurdles which is why there are so many plants out there .... to allow for failures and facilitate quicker learning ... still feels disheartening though. I'll persevere all the same. At least my strawbs and raspberries seem to be being productive. They are just in dire need of some sun so they can start ripening.

C'mon summer ... where are you?

[pigletwillie]

The grapevine growing over the party area has just had its first trim. All fruiting spurs to two leaves past the last bunch and all leaders tied in.

[shellyanne1987]

Put out the courgette into their beds, pulled a few of the bolted rocket (only the wild rocket isn't bolting ) left a few for the pollinators and bees, checked the strawberries their looking fat and not long left to go


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[pigletwillie]

Strimmed the pottager and now I am making up brood and super frames for my hives.

[Florence Fennel]

Four more toms potted into their final buckets. They're all looking a bit sickly to be honest, but fingers crossed they'll be ok. I'm sure they looked as bedraggled last year and still made a good crop

[robmarston]

Mowed the lawn and built a herb bed.

whaddayathink?


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[susieq100]

Petrol strimmers are amazing things aren't they? Wielded one with vigour this afternoon and cut back nearly all the rubbish around the plot. Discovered a lost tribe and two endangered species! Weeding, weeding, watered the toms etc and weeded. Oh, mustn't forget the weeding.