What I did today 2012-2014

[Noosner]

Kissed the sweetcorn plants goodbye and planted my Daubenton's Kale seedlings in their place. Also planted daffodil bulbs in a circle around my Charles Ross apple tree. It is 2 years old and maybe next year the bright yellow trumpets will call it to fruit.

[Green Gerkin]

Picked the last of the tomatoes and raspberries. Plus a couple of peppers and chillies. Also found a giant gerkin lurking in the undergrowth!!


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[Artychoke]

Picked some Numex Twilight chillies and a jalapeño from the greenhouse; used some of the chillies to start some chilli vodka.
This afternoon just as the rain started I went to the allotment where I finished preparing a bed for the strawberries by adding some home made compost, spent compost and leaf mould to it and then covering it with weed suppressing fabric and a layer of bark mulch before planting out the strawberry plants taken from runners off the plants in the garden. My garden plants were fantastic this year- in 2013 I bought 12 plants from B and Q that had been reduced to 50p for 6 ( no one was buying them as the early weather was so miserable), I potted these into large pots and a plastic trough, I had about 4 strawberries but then pegged out the runners and planted about 25 plants in late September. £1 well spent! 😊🍓
At the allotment I picked 2 courgettes off my rejuvenated plants 😆


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[Bigmallly]

Spent the morning cleaning out the pond filters..........Oh the joy..................then this aft decided to take down the tomato cane structure in Kite 1. Cable tied some thick canes across the top of the kite & attached thick cord to the canes to support next years toms, at least the cord can be hung out of the way when I'm working on the beds rather then working round canes.

[noviceveggrower]

I had fish and chips with my sister. Plenty of bread and butter, a little sprinkling of salt and some red sauce. Very nice indeed

[Jay-ell]

Banged my head on a shelf so hard the shed door opened. Thing is, it was the door to the OTHER shed.

[Nicos]

Apples picked and put in store for the winter. Poor crop this year.
Picked and ate the first, and one and only , full sized apple from the tree we planted on top of Neo(...our cat which was run over 6 years go.)...awww

Also collected the last of the hazelnuts. Enormous crop!

[pigletwillie]

Potted on around 4 dozen strawberry runners for the new huge strawberry castle.

[Veg newbie]

I dug out a row for planting blackberries, just another 5 to go. It bad between the rain showers


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[Bex]

Scrubbed the cold frame, and put 15 sweet pea seeds inside. They are in a tray in loo tools, 6 saved seed from this year and 9 lady Diana.

Did a bit of digging until my back hurt, I'm managing little and often. Dug this much


Only this much to go


Finally planted the remaining onions and garlic and picked the last of my cabbage.


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[Bren In Pots]

Pulled out my last two remaining courgette plants was a bit sad to see them go because they've produced lots this year.

[Dorothy rouse]

Planted 2 bags of overwintering onions, name begins with S , planted the other 2bags of Radar yesterday. Thank goodness for that.

Covered the broad beans I planted out yesterday , just in case the birds take a fancy to them.

All the 'bare beds ' on plot now covered in black fabric for the winter, am hoping the stuff I left underneath will be tasty for the worms etc, and disappear by the Spring! ( I didn't really chop it up)

Still got sprouts, broccoli, kale and few cabbages and some beets left, so pretty pleased really.

[Two_Sheds]

- pulled out the remaining bean canes, to store dry over the winter
- left remains of bean vines on the soil as a mulch
- pulled up loads and loads of chickweed and dead nettle, left on soil as a mulch
- took home the pumpkins
- pulled up the last dwarf french beans, to be eaten as shelly beans
- that's it for this year. It's now too cold, wet and muddy for me, until spring


at home:
- planted 200 Jap onions into cell trays in the gh
- picked another dozen ripe chillies to sew into ristras

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Calling it a Year!

Did work early doors n thought I'd nip into plot on way home n harvest a few stuff for the oncoming week! Looking forward to a few cobs of "Sweetcorn" n "Sweet Tatie" pan fried in garlic butter!

Something beat me to it!



From the size of the chewed sheaths! Can only presume "Foxes"

Greedy Begger did the whole crop! All 15 plants

Didn't want any corn anyway!

So said "Sod It" the year is done!

Cleared most! Let next year begin!

[Feral007]

Sowed first lotof seeds into loo rolls and odd little pots.
Pulled weeds in the good beds.
Moved a gardenia that looked on its way out.
Mowed a lot of the house yard with daughter.]
Son mulching the rest of the garden.
Keeping an eye out for snakes. Didn't see the wolf spider, for which I'm grateful.