What I did today - 2016

[Jay-ell]

Summer pruned the apples, pears, plums and cherry.

I had a couple of store bought garlic heads that were starting to sprout so I stuck them into a bed whole to grow some garlic greens for later on.

Decided to nip out a couple of branches of the hawthorn hedge that were shading out the bed - ended up cutting back a lot of it and pulling out quite a bit of dead wood - hadn't had a decent pruning in years, ended up getting three foot of the bed back from it.

Still quite a bit of hedge to prune back though but now I can see the weeds growing in the hedge - bindweed, nettles, ground elder, real elder and ash.

Tomorrow I must remember to take my hackey bits down.

Long sleeves may also be a good idea.

[Small pumpkin]

Lots of weeding. Ripped out a few things that have finished, harvested all my beetroot about 5 kg ( just have to work out what to do with it ). Spent about 15 minutes watching a flock of long tail tits and a gold crest working there way round the hedge row in my veggie garden. Love them little fellas.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Had a right good tidy on the side garden! Drive washed down, planters cleared n ready for next year! All in all a very relaxing n rewarding day!

Right! Best wind my neck in, up at 3.45am So bid all a restful night!

[happyhumph]

Not much as darling OH away sea kayaking for 11 hours so had 2 cherubs to myself all day. Saved some parsley seed, picked stuff, & let children choose flower seeds for next year - will be growing almost black sunflowers, blue convovulus & something fluffy & orange whose name I can't remember without looking at the packet...

[cptncrackoff]

Grew some lovely black sunflowers this year!
(Sent some seed to the VSP)

Today I have harvested the baby parsnips, parboiled and frozen..

Top dressed two beds at home and planted the garlic and elephant garlic!

Had my first leeks up, huge..but need more white really!

[Snadger]

Not a lot at the allotment apart from sort the chooks and, take some leaves off my toms plus transport som trays to my other plot.
At my project house I cut the grass, planted a Perennial lavatera and transported 20 paving flags I scrounged , 5 at a time in a wheel barrow from a few doors away.
These will eventually be taken to my new allotment plot for use in my Afro/Inca garden!

[ESBkevin]

Spent Saturday tidying up the outside of mums bungalow ready for tenets. I have aches in places I didn't even know were place's.
Today we visited the plot and I dug up two surplus rhubarb crowns, lifted two buckets of spuds. Collected 5 barrow loads of muck from the communal delivery. Disturbed a ground wasps nest! Harvested carrots, marrows, kale, raspberries, lettuce and some more onions. Enjoyed the warmth and the soft earth now we've finally had rain (and boy did it rain friday). Spending the afternoon aching in front of TV watching you too gardening and tractor vids.

[Small pumpkin]

All but two tomatoes are now compost. So is the last cucumber. And all my basil I harvested.

[Jay-ell]

Popped down to Tynemouth flea market but didn't get any.

Back on the plot I trimmed back more of the hedge from over the beds.

Finally got round to taking cuttings of the Daubertons and Taunton Deane kales.

Done a bit of weeding.

Sat and watched the bees buzzing around the raspberries which are a fair size now , bigger than the earlier crop I had in summer. - wish they'd hurry up and ripen.

[SusieG]

Cleared out five tomato plants from GH ~ another trug load picked.......
Did a recce of all chilli plants growing in GH ....... all fruiting/ripening nicely .......

Bagged some of my tom glut up for DIL, also another cucumber (still coming thick 'n fast!!) and a couple of jars of chutney....

Had a good walk around the garden, just looking and enjoying it, formulating ideas and plans in my head for next year (and the year after .....)

[Martin H]

I did some greenhouse clearing out today. We froze a bag of cherry tomatoes and 8 ripe sweet peppers.

I was going to go to the allotment but couldn't quite pluck up the courage to face the chaos, so stayed at home and did some dead-heading instead.

[KevinM67]

I was going to go to the allotment but couldn't quite pluck up the courage to face the chaos

What !!! - I've obviously missed this.

Is there a problem ?

[Bigmallly]

Erected a 16mt long 2mt high Reed fence, did a bit of tidying up on't plot removing dead leaves etc. Watered the fruit tree tunnel.

[bario1]

Yesterday I collected six rubble sacks of seaweed to mulch my asparagus bed with.

[Lumpy]

Painted parts of the kitchen - does this count?