What I did today 2012-2014

[Littlefox2000]

In a desperate attempt to use up my many marrows, yesterday I made two loaves of courgette bread and a chocolate courgette cake - one down and about 15 to go. So today, I used another half in soup.

I think tomorrow I'll move on to starting up some marrow rum.

[teakdesk]

I think tomorrow I'll move on to starting up some marrow rum.

Ooohh! I'd forgotten about doing that.. (runs off to choose which courgette is going to be "accidently" forgotten until it is too big to be eaten!).

[Littlefox2000]

Managed to use up some more marrows yesterday. I made stuffed marrow with mince and onions etc. for dinner last night. A ratatouille for lunch today. I also have half made courgette quenelles, which will be lunch tomorrow. I am really hoping they turn out okay, as I've loved the kinds of quenelles I've had in the past. Plus this recipe uses up 1 kg of courgette/marrow.

Also prepared another load of runner and French beans for the freezer.

[Two_Sheds]

- continued cutting down the jungle: the recent rains & continued sunshine are making everything grow like mad
- sheared down the comfrey & alfalfa, left it on soil as a mulch
- put canes to some volunteer climbing beans
- hung up all the DFBs (dwarf french beans) that are now drying out, a month early
- defoliated the pumpkins to allow the fruits to cure: again, a month early
- defoliated the climbing beans that are setting seed, to let the sun dry the pods out. Left leaves on the soil as mulch, like Nature does
- chopped up the dead annuals in the flower border as mulch, scattering the seed as I went
- weeded the paths
- the clover green manure is a bit strong for my liking, too hard to pull up, so I'm mulching it with wet newspapers to kill it off
- trimmed my hedges with my brilliant little trimmer
-mowed the lawn twice this week, put clippings in the dog poo dalek
- dog poo dalek now full, so lifted the dalek up & off and resited it. The heap will remain in situ until spring, when I will rake out what's left, onto the flower borders
- planted out the pretty new raspberry, Valentina
- picked 2 punnets of Polka this week, but freezer's full so the pets shared them with me

[KevinM67]

I've been stuck in my shed for an hour and a half now due to the piffing rain - I've got 3% battery left on my phone, however I've got 4 cans of beer which I was going to treat myself to once I got home.

Should I stay, or should I go?

[Mumbles]

Discovered my bargain hoe bought online has rounded edges so not entirely sure what that's useful for apart from making a mess (wanted it to weed between all the plants around my pond)

Was later cheered up by one of my lovely avon customers who has potted up a cutting of one of the plants I was admiring in her garden a few weeks ago


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[skeggijon]

Finally got round to putting up guttering on my shed and directing it into my ibc - finish just as a deluge arrived. Then sheltered in the bigger of my two polytunnels and planted potatoes, which should hopefully be ready for Christmas dinner.
Picked 1 cucumber, a greengrocers full of courgettes and a barrowfull of french beans.

[Snadger]

Dug up some tatties,decided I may enter my pumpkin ito the allotment show,picked some climbing french beans and fought a broody hen with a stick to retrieve some eggs from under her!

[Plot28 A&B]

Picked a dead straight cucumber a punnet full of autumn raspberries and picked up all my fallen plums to try and control the pl moth next year


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[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Since I got "promoted to boss man" a few week since! The plot has been neglected! Was lovely to have a full day there today! Time to climb back into myself! n loved it!



Harvested! Now to turn it all into a meal!

Tomorrow's project!

[Green Gerkin]

Looks amazing deano.
Did you harvest the chicken? 😀


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[Deano's "Diggin It"]

GG! I'd love chucks!
But unfortunately! They don't fit my timescale!

[Penellype]

Spent the morning at my friend's harvesting veg and doing some weeding. The result was 2 beetroot, 2 kohlrabi, 10 large carrots, a green cabbage, 3 mini calabrese heads from side shoots, a handful of tomatoes and a huge red cabbage that was so big we had to use an axe to cut off the roots, and I could hardly lift it! Unfortunately I also discovered that some of the outdoor tomatoes there have got blight.

This afternoon I did some deadheading, cut some of the lower leaves off my tomatoes (having changed my clothes first so that I wouldn't transfer any blight spores) mowed the lawn, harvested some blueberries and sorted out some storage for my tomato crop:

The 3 big ones are Shirley from the greenhouse, there are 3 small Totem, and the rest are Sungold in various stages of ripeness

I then went back to my friend's house and planted out some cabbages and kohlrabi and sowed some mooli. I feel like I've done a good day's work, just a pity about the blight.

[Artychoke]

A good session at the allotment today after our holiday. Butternut squash looking good as are autumn raspberries, cauliflowers are useless though! Runner beans getting started slowly. Husband used the brush cutter on an overgrown part of the allotment while I tackled the bindweed in the raspberries.


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[Snadger]

Busy day today, which would have lasted longer if the Ibruproven hadn't worn off and my back started to ache.
Collected a carrier bag full of beefsteak tomatoes from one greenhouse and a carrier bag of mixed toms from other greenhouses.
Another carrier bag was filled with french beans from my climbing Blue lake plants. One swede, two mahoosive beetroot and a couple of large onions made for a hefty load to transport home.Harvested all my large onions from a bed. Harvested the last of my other onions fromm two other beds and cleared away weeds. Sowed spring cabbage and purple top turnips in bed which had onions in it. Weeded a strawberry bed. Weeded other onion bed and as there was some bindweed in it decided to drown the weeds in a water but that resides close by.
I was a bit peckish half way through so ate a freshly picked sweetcorn and picked a pocketfull of peas which I shelled and ate whilst resting on my bench in the herb bed. Collected half a dozen eggs and watered three greenhouses before grabbing my swag bags and headed for home to watch the match.