What I did today - 2017

[Containergardener]

Yesterday : had a re-jig of the GH, changing staging over to add more. Cleared 2 slugs and sluggy eggs hiding. Topped up radish (in containers) , watered /fed as required.

[bario1]

Fed all toms, chillies, cucs and aubergines. The aubergines I put outside seem to have got second wind, I may still get a fruit this year!
One of my courgettes (Romanesco) isn't performing. Maybe removing about 30 massive slugs and snails that were hiding roundabout it's planter will help it get going....
Pulled the odd weed.
Planted out some shasta daisies that've been languishing in pots all summer. Hopefully they'll establish before the winter comes.

[vixylix]

I started working round the beds, tidying and harvesting as I went. I got round 3 (3 to go) before the heavens opened.

I still have a list of 4000 things to do, I need the weather to sort itself out!!

[greenshoot]

egg shells

Today I crushed a fortnight's savings of egg shells. I'll be using them to surround tasty veggies from slugs!

[bario1]

Pulled up the garlic that hasn't done so well, I'll dry out the bigger bulbs to see if they're usable. Hoed over the area and did some other hoeing/weeding around the remaining beetroot, leeks and parsnips.
Turned over a couple of small 'WIP' areas that had started to get a bit messy with couch grass and docks.
Watered some stuff in the tunnel.
Threw out a bag of last year's Anya spuds in the shed that were totally sprouted and going soggy.
Put some little wooden platforms under three Crown Prince squashes that appear to have set.

[Jonny.D]

Topped up the raised beds. Planted kale & overwintering Broccoli & also potted some as a back up. Winnowed & sorted more Dahlia seed.

[Florence Fennel]

Started to patch up the stay-put

[Containergardener]

Opened and later closed GH door
Working day.

[MartinRSharpe]

After a gap of about 2 years of posting on here, and what feels like the same since I spent any real time doing my garden....I finally did yesterday.

Yesterday I dug the foundations for the wall that will form the edge of my new outdoor veg garden and starting to but a layer of stone down as a base.

I live in an area with heavy clay soil and the town name apparently came from "muddy valley" (so will let you guess how much rain we get!) so it has been rather slow and hard work.

The spoil from foundation ditch is being used to raise the area that the new beds will go on. Then I will put raised beds on top of that.

[bario1]

Worked over the roots bed, taking out all the weeds and thinning the carrots. Well chuffed with how it looks now.
Did a snailhunt - I know where they all hide now, so I just collect them up and throw them in an area of waste ground.

[damian1225]

I gave the chillies a good inspection and removed caterpillars, slugs and damaged leaves from each plant, put them back in the conservatory after they had a good soak of giant veg pepper feed, I then soaked the toms and the rain meant I didn't get around to trimming the foliage off them but that will be the next job.. then went down to the plot and put some seed trays underneath my giant marrows to stop the bottoms rotting, next job will be adding some protection around them to keep the rain/sun and anything else off them so they get the maximum chances to grow huge

[MartinRSharpe]

Slow but steady progress on the new area yesterday

Built (real pig of a job) and connected the 21 gabion cages that make up the wall (0.5 wide, 1m high, 1m long)
Finished filling the foundations with stone to get a solid base.

Little bit of grading to go on the area, then membrane down and start filling those baskets up.

Some actual gardening as well, raised pumpkins and squash onto bricks and bit of an inspection of the pepers, peas, beans, cauli and tomatoes.

[Florence Fennel]

Cleared neglected ground in my garden today, organised my pots, trays and potting bench. It's looking much better now and I have another week off so hope to get it all ship shape

[veggiechicken]

I have a new plan for dealing with the weeds that I consider too risky to go in the compost bin (like buttercups).
As I weed the beds I dump the weeds on the path to dry out in the sun. Seeding flower heads, big roots from dock and hogweed, and prickly brambles go into the greenwaste bin; the rest is "cooked" on the path.
Each day, I turn the miniheaps over, moving them ever closer to the site of the BIGheap (a piece of weed infested wasteland. Today I gathered them all together into one BIGheap where the chooks will help me, turning and eating the bugs, until, I hope, the weeds become usable compost.
Anything that germinates in this heap will be a weed and will not live to see tomorrow.
That's the plan - only time will tell if its a good plan or rubbish!

[Chestnut]

Strimmed some of the spare bits of ground near our plot until rain stopped play, then a bit of painting and sawing towards our new brassica cages