What I did today - 2016

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Potted on, fed n watered the surplus tomato plants that are now trayed & ready to go to their new owners!



Then finally started to get the poly summat like organised!



The tomatoes n Grapes now going "Great Gun's" although a little behind!

Sort this side out in the morning, hoping there will be a few more plot holders there being a Saturday to take what's left, if not, the compost bin awaits!



I really hate binning healthy plants!

[Snadger]

Got a few piccies of my bantam chicks!



They certainly are a weird looking bunch of chicks!

[Containergardener]

Aw so cute snadger. Love the one with its black coat and white zip up
Pic 1 on left

[happyhumph]

Watered & fed greenhouse ( I'm hoping it will grow from a 6' X 10' to an 8' X 12')

Tied peas in as the wind seems to stop them clinging on. Did some hoeing, potted french beans into hanging baskets, now OH has to put brackets on the shed! Potted on my solitary physalis.

Got all my seed packets out & worked out what I'm sowing this weekend.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

The "Greenhouse" Cleared!



Sorted! Beds "Fettled" & ready for some oriental veg! Just so I can say the year wasn't a total "Wash out"

Curry on it's way! A few beers! "Really Happy Days"

[SusieG]

Looks super-tidy, Deano! Curry/beers, 'nuff said........

[Bex2012]

Have hardly done anything the last couple of weeks, been studying for an exam, and in both areas im massively behind!
Did manage to get over there thursday, weeded and hoe'd the plot (bleedin bindweed everywhere). Finally moved my raspberries from their largish pots into a dedicated bed. Cut off some tomato leaves and stems that look decidedly blightish, hopefully that will be enough to save them. The potatos are a total disaster, but i cant face digging them up at the mo, my stomach cant take the smell. Picked yet more courgettes and broadbeans, think the later will have to come out soon, the rust is spreading. Doesnt really sound a lot, but i was over there for three hours!
Today my OH put up a cheap arch from wilkos to grow my troboncino squash up. Ive guessed which ones of the five unlabelled squashes they actually were -serves me right from not labelling them! Sown some more peas and mange tout, and moved the apple and pear tree - the ants have got in the bottoms, so they were throughly watered in the hope that they will s0d off! Need to go back over and put some chippings down, but thats a project for another day.

[Jay-ell]

I got some staples to finish off the fence - cost me £17. Ok, the staples were just £1 but wilkos was just round the corner... need I say more?

So today I stapled the mesh to the outside of the fence and dug up the soil at the base of the fence pulling out weed roots and plastic sheeting (I'm sure this plastic mulch works better if you don't bury it under the soil then plant weeds on top)

Though for a while about which plants to put there - as it's a nice and sunny part of the garden I decided that the tayberry and blackberry would be ok in a less sunny area and put in three vines - a Chardonnay, Regent and Romeo. I've just got the family eating stuffed vine leaves so if I don't get grapes at least I'll have dolmas - although grapes WOULD be preferred (did you know that you can make wine out of the prunings as well?).

My three 1p flower seed tubs came from suttons yesterday so I sowed them out today - along with some poached egg plants and candy tuft.

Potted up some Kale and collards - really need to have a word with myself about not keeping every seedling that germinates - 50 collards and kale plants and you know I'm going to have to find space for them all.

Ate some strawberries, ate some black currants, ate one raspberry (that's about 20% of this years harvest )

Came home and ate baklava and stuffed dates and ordered some cell grown Joan J raspberries to in after the overwintered onions come out (that beds is in the fruit garden so I really needed some fruit plants to put in it - otherwise it will just end up filled with kale). Joan J is supposed to be good when doing a double crop harvest although by then the tulameen should be giving me a lot more in the summer (to be fair they were stuck in MFBs last year and stayed there till a month or so ago)

[Containergardener]

Errrrm tied up some beans, the malva, roses and clematis after the downpours this morning, then went out after the sudden winds and tied more stuff up

Dropped OH off then nipped to h/base for a peek, home came a dahlia, osteopurnum , some trailing geraniums, couple troughs and some plastic saucer things

[Snadger]

Did a bit of weeding at my project home,garden. Planted out a Virgo rose I had bought at £ land a while ago and planted in a 7" pot to bring it on a bit, as it looked sick when i bought it.! I was quite surprised how many roots and leaves its generated in such a short time (about a month) and it was ready to go out. Also planted out a yellow flowered herbaceous perennial which had no label and was also brought on in a 7" pot before planting out. My next door neioghbour commented on how prolific and pretty was my Sage plant that I grew from seed. I need to stop it getting leggy so shall prune it as soon as its finished flowering.
Called at allotment on way home and fed the chooks/chicks and collected eggs. I also dug up a couple of 'Shyes' of Charlotte tatties and collected some broad beans from my greenhouse for tomorrows dinner.
Weather forecast is good for tomorrow so I'm going to have an all day session at the alottment,

[roitelet]

Chopped off the tops of potatoes 'cos the dreaded blight is starting. Will leave them for a couple of weeks before I dig them up.

I also salvaged some potato berries, going to have a go at saving some TPS. I'll send some to the Seed Swap if anyone is interested.

[Feral007]

I pruned off the rootstock that is trying to take over the peach/nectarine mini trees. Pruned back the autumn flowering raspberries (yes I know, very late) and moved 3 largish cuttings of jostaberry.
I planted small cuttings near the asparagus bed and they went feral! Needed to move them as I want to add a couple more crowns of asparagus to the mound and they were taking over. The cuttings have been growing well but no fruit on them so far. Hope that it's not because you can't grow jostaberry from cuttings. :0 I thought about doing a few more things but the horses were looking at me and wanting their dins so I gave in.

[Snadger]

Quite a productive day today. Went to wholesale supplier and got my Layers pellets and chick crumb for my new chicks. It closes at 12.00 noon and i arrived at 3 minutes to, so wasn't eactly Mr popular.

Put my sweetcorn out to harden off. Transported the last 10 paving flags along to my new plot. Cleaned out the 'L' shaped greenhouse weeding the thistles,nettles and bindweed out. Tickled the beds over and planted two watermelons and seven Cukamelons into the borders. Added BFB, watered in then tried an organic slug repellant around each plant,which looked like basic slag to me?

Sideshooted my toms and tied onto canes. Took the bottom leaves off and weeded the bed they are in. Added BFB and gave a good soaking.

[Snadger]

I pruned off the rootstock that is trying to take over the peach/nectarine mini trees. Pruned back the autumn flowering raspberries (yes I know, very late) and moved 3 largish cuttings of jostaberry.
I planted small cuttings near the asparagus bed and they went feral! Needed to move them as I want to add a couple more crowns of asparagus to the mound and they were taking over. The cuttings have been growing well but no fruit on them so far. Hope that it's not because you can't grow jostaberry from cuttings. :0 I thought about doing a few more things but the horses were looking at me and wanting their dins so I gave in.

Always makes me lol when I imagine you chewing through the retraints!

[HoneyChild]

Potted up some peppers (sweet and chili) and an aubergine into 10l pots using a mixture of homemade and greenwaste compost and some sand.

Also collected seedpods of mustard 'red giant' (I think that's what it was anyway). Some of the seeds scattered over the place so will probably start growing in places I'm not expecting.

Planted out some mixed salad leaves into anywhere I could find a place in my raised beds and also in pots where I have french beans growing.