What I did today - 2017

[Bren In Pots]

Weeding and re-homing volunteer nasturtiums plus putting a net tunnel over my lettuces the young sparrows will have to find something else to eat.

[Jay-ell]

More digging of the gunk that used to be the greenhouse base. The wood is so rotten that you can tell the difference between that and the soil because the spade doesn't go through the soil as easy. If it wasn't for the batteries, shredded shopping bags and other non compostibles I'd have buried it and called it hugelkultur.

Weeded the SFG, some squares didn't take so I'll be loading them with something or other. Mulched the dahlias with the spent manure from the potatoes. Harvested kale - which means I yanked half a dozen larger plants out of the Yacon bed. Also took some stuff home for a salad.

The carrots in the New Territories are starting to come up so I think I'll hoy a net over that half of the bed. The other half is broad beans which are coming up nicely as well - almost all of them up now.

[happyhumph]

Nothing much as eldest I'll yesterday and me ill today. Did manage to plait garlic and elephant garlic though....

[burnie]

Gave the sweetcorn a shake to aid pollination.

[vixylix]

I spent ALL weekend (seriously) wrangling the tomatoes back under control - they're looking fab though, lots of fruit set and lots of trusses following behind

OH spent it weeding (seems to be all we do) - he's filled the brown bin and it still looks like we've barely scratched the surface!

[Jonny.D]

Dead heading, weeding, planted out lettuce & rocket

[Jay-ell]

I dug more out of the back. Still a mess so I'm not going to show a pikkie of that, instead here's my Yacon bed which is an accidental polyculture with kale, scorzonera, yacon and winter squash


Took the grass cuttings down and added these to the mulch of the back bed. The walking onions there are regrowing already so I planted out their offspring from last year and some bulbils from this year.

Emptied a bag of spuds and added the manure to the mulch on the dahlia and litchi tomato bed


Chopped th comfrey down and mulched around the Babington Leeks and other alliums. No photos of that so heres the beans and supports instead

[burnie]

Daily routine now, check courgettes for monsters, check sparrows not eaten all the peas(cd hanging on bit of string seems to be working, they don't like Foreigner(me neither)) Shake sweetcorn in greenhouse and exit covered in pollen after watering. Finally beat my wife to a tomato(that means I got there first, I didn't really beat her to anything lol), Tumbling Red, nice, but not fantastic, looking forward to trying the others.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted leeks to replace the now finished broad beans, potted on a armpit tom and pinched out basil and place them in water to root.

[Jay-ell]

Dug the gunk out of the heart of darkness at the back of the Jungle - hurrah I've hit soil .


Now I have to turn my attention to the land that lies beyond. BEHOLD the Zone of Desolation (I noticed later that my finger was over the lens so that you’re only seeing the tidy side )


Rumours have it that within this domain the Mines Of Sullyman - a bit like the mines of Solomon but full of bricks instead of diamonds.

Took some time out to pull the heads off the some of the Crow Garlic and Sand leeks and scattered the bulbils at the base of the mother plants. Hopefully I'll have nice big patches in the Autumn.

LOOK AT THIS ain't it a whopper


It's not a sunflower but a relative - it's one of my Yacon.


A calabrese is forming up nicely. I thought it was a sprout but nevermind.

Unearthed a previous tenant

[Chestnut]

Picked my first home-grown blueberry. OH thought I'd finally lost the plot when I sliced it into halves to share with our ice-cream at tea time

[happyhumph]

Finally got a few things done. Bit of weeding, planted out some more peas which were in root trainers and watered gh.

[Martin H]

Today I built my new vegetable bed, in the space that used to hold a rockery. It's 15 feet by 4 feet so I'll be able to grow a fair bit of stuff in there once I've bought some topsoil to fill it up with.



I'm thinking of giving up the allotment next season to leave more time for other things (e.g. golf!). If I do potatoes in pots and beans in the flower border, I should have enough fresh veg, but I'd miss having the space for Chrysanthemums. So I haven't quite decided.

[bario1]

Spent an unbroken 5 hours at the plot yesterday afternoon in the sunshine - bliss!

Too many things done to mention, but notably:

Fed, watered and mulched the Autumn raspberries that'd been swamped by bolting spinach.
Cleared the majority of the nettles from the edge of my plot that were encroaching on the communal access path.
Emptied the contents of two 'almost done' daleks into my pallet bins for storage.
Placed two more daleks - that means I now have 4 free!
Filled one dalek with weeds - OK, 3 free.
Lots of watering of things in pots.

[forgetmenot]

I too spent a mammoth 5 hours at the plot. Left just as the heavens open and enjoyed a tin of ambrosia watching the water pour down outside!