What I did today - 2016

[susieq100]

Mowed lawns and watered the greenhouse and outside plants. Planted another row of beetroot. The weather forecast is giving warning of heavy rain- please let them be right! The ground is so dry that I have big 'cracks' around the edge of the lawns. Heavy clay here in the Potteries. An 'old boy' down at the allotment site told me years ago that watering just stops a plant from dying, rain is needed to make it grow.

[MissC]

Watered everything in the greenhouse and removed lots of slimies... The tomatoes in the greenhouse are pouting considerably. Lots of curling leaves. Interestingly, the tomatoes outside the greenhouse door are racing ahead. They've been completely unfazed by the very stormy weather today...

[SaraJH]

Planted out more peas and considered planting out about 40 brassicas. That thought lasted about 3 seconds before OH poured some wine

[Small pumpkin]

Finished weeding all the raised beds. Planted the last of my runner and pea beans. Planted another tray of bedding plants in the front garden. Potted on some more chilli's.

[lmayhow]

Planted out Courgette's and Squash into final place. Weeded vegtable area, netted up strawberries and painted shed another coat.....

All before collecting the monsters from pre school

[Martin H]

Dug up a Pentland Javelin plant, picked the strawbs and started working on the cordon sweet peas before the thunder came and ended play for the day.

[BimblingBob]

Finished work then went to the nearest homebase. Wrong turn so ended up on a on way mission, 30 minutes later turned up at Homebase. Car filled with an electric strimmer and some shears. Plus 5 cheapo raised beds, 1.8m x 0.9 x 0.25.
So this weekend consists of trying to get a few of those in.

[Snadger]

Potted on six Gardeners delight and six beefsteak tomatoes. Planted out about 20 chrysanthemum plants and one butternut squash plant. Watered stuff that was looking dry.

[happyhumph]

Finally staked my toms - took some gentle coaxing. Emergency water this afternoon. Gave up waiting for rain & turned tap on dry compacted bed the turks turban & spaghetti squash are going in - they're a bit desperate to get out. Watered veg patch as 20 min light rain just nor enough. Found 80metres jute twine in a tin with a cutting lid for 99p & bought 3!

[susieq100]

Feeling pleased when I got home from work as it had rained heavily. Water butt nearly full, radishes had grown a foot (OK I am exaggerating, but they had grown noticeably). Went to the allotment to water the greenhouse and NO RAIN!! Aaaargghh! Left the site manager doing his rain dance.

[Snadger]

Didn't do much this evening at the allotment apart from watering and I added a few canes to support my crysanths.

[Jay-ell]

So today I started off by strimming the hedge - this gave me another 1 - 3 feet on my beds and loads of cuttngs to now pick up and shred.

Decided to take down a bit of the boundary fence between my two plots and pulled up a tin fence at the front section of my old plot.

Planted a fig in a pot - easy dig a 2'x 2' x 2' hole sink in a bottomless pod add rubble then fill. Except this is in the front of the old pot so first of all its clearoff 3" of soil, move broken paving slabs, pull up plastic sheeting, clear out bindweed roots, dig out shards of glass THEN dig 2' x 2' x 2' hole. The front of the plot is coming together nicely. Should be all planted out soon.

Sowed carrots, beans, Kohl Rabi, spinach, coriander, pak choi, beetroot and swede into the grid on the SFG bed. 10 squares down 22 to go.

Weeded and piddled about for a bit. Sure that I mustof done something else but can't remember.

Oh yes started to extend the crazy paving entry in the New Territories using the bits I dug up today,

[Ryez]

Potatoes tumbled down due to last nights storm. Had to move both (quite heavy sacks!) against the wall so I can squeeze two canes and tie them with twine to keep them up. I hope dragging the sacks on the ground did not cause any damage to the tubers... Oh Well!

Covered lettuce bed with veg netting because something is eating it, and placed organic slug pellets down. Gave a pat to the tomato flowers, so the pollen will hopefully loosen up.

Watered. That's all I am doing these days...

Oh, and ate some radish, they are massive, did well this time in a seed tray, 3 inches deep. I even left the roots from the previous radish in the soil, but it didn't bother them.

[SaraJH]

Bugger all apart from some watering

[Martin H]

Sowed some lettuce and mizuna, spent the rest of my gardening time tending my sweet peas