What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Containergardener]

Plant out or into baskets remaining plants in GH..echium, blue cornflower, calendula, cosmos
Pot up some more salads..mixed and little gem
Sow some chilli seeds from a shop bought one..see what happens
Trip to small GC locally see if anything I can grow on (edibles)
Cut, trim grass
Sit in sun

[Penellype]

As expected yesterday turned out to be very busy and I didn't even have time to pick my usual lunchtime salad

Monday's jobs
Deadheading and weeding - done a little
wash plant pots and labels - no
Get rid of caterpillars on blueberry bush - no
Harvest salads, tomatoes, blueberries, possibly cabbage, carrots - just a few carrots for tea
Check beans, peas, courgettes, calabrese - surprisingly quite a few beans were ready including the first 2 runners.

Managed to find time to sow some basil in a pot.

Tuesday's jobs
Deadheading and weeding
Check lawns and mow of possible as no dry days forecast for next 2 weeks
wash plant pots and labels
Harvest bucket of Desiree potatoes
Put up net and move broccoli onto raised bed
Get rid of caterpillars on blueberry bush
Harvest salads, tomatoes, blueberries, possibly cabbage, carrots
Check peas, courgettes, calabrese, strawberries.

[burnie]

Tidy up the Brussels and take off some lower leaves.............done already

[Penellype]

Tuesday's jobs
Deadheading and weeding - done some including weeding drive
Check lawns and mow of possible as no dry days forecast for next 2 weeks - done rear lawn, plan to do the front one was scuppered by hoards of flying ants emerging under the front doorstep
Wash plant pots and labels - no
Harvest bucket of Desiree potatoes - done for 0.8kg potatoes
Put up net and move broccoli onto raised bed - done
Get rid of caterpillars on blueberry bush - no
Harvest salads, tomatoes, blueberries, possibly cabbage, carrots - done except for cabbage
Check peas, courgettes, calabrese, strawberries - done, harvested first calabrese

I almost never use insecticides, but I have 2 exceptions - wasps in the house and ants in the house. Now I have to clear up all the dead ants that came in through the solid brick wall/solid concrete floor/plastic front door (which I did NOT open) . Beginning to wish the wildlife would leave me in peace for a bit!

Wednesday's jobs
Collect rainwater for blueberries
Harvest baby courgettes
Everything else will probably have to wait until Friday as its pouring down today and Thursdays are nearly always busy.

[Penellype]

Wednesday's jobs
Collect rainwater for blueberries - done, and again today. Storage bin is nearly full.
Harvest baby courgettes - done, also a cucumber and a couple of peppers.

Removed several slugs and a couple of snails.

Friday's jobs (weather permitting)
Mow front lawn if possible (unlikely as we have just had a deluge)
Deadheading and weeding
Try to tackle the caterpillars on the blueberries
Wash some pots and labels
Try to find things to do with glut of cucumbers (soup?)
Harvest peppers, salads, peas, blueberries
Decide whether I am actually ever going to eat that cabbage
Check beans, calabrese, courgettes

[Baldy]

^^^ best un-netted cabbages I've ever had and I'm feeling that P. - sigh -

[Containergardener]

Sow more seeds, of what..I don't yet know

[Penellype]

^^^ best un-netted cabbages I've ever had and I'm feeling that P. - sigh -

My problem is that I have tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and lettuce in abundance, courgettes coming along and a few beans and calabrese in between. I prefer all those to cabbage, and my stomach is already suffering from eating too much fruit and veg at once. The cabbage gets rejected every time because there's something I would rather eat, and also I know it has slugs and I have a limited tolerance of dealing with creepy-crawlies which has been tested to the limit recently by caterpillars,in strawberries and blueberries and by ants and wasps elsewhere. The result is a cabbage which is clearly starting to bolt...

My guess is it will end up in the hotbin

[Containergardener]

And now itl be potting on 4 more chilli plants, so best go get on before the rain returns.

[Penellype]

Friday's jobs
Mow front lawn if possible - done
Deadheading and weeding - done some
Try to tackle the caterpillars on the blueberries - no, see below
Wash some pots and labels - done labels
Try to find things to do with glut of cucumbers (soup?) - no, ate one
Harvest peppers, salads, peas, blueberries - done except for blueberries
Decide whether I am actually ever going to eat that cabbage - no
Check beans, calabrese, courgettes - some beans ready and harvested

Today was one of those days when plans have to be radically altered because of something unexpected. One thing leads to another...
At least it wasn't wet (until now). When deadheading and checking everything I noticed that the shelf (also a net cover over the calabrese) that some of the strawberries were on was leaning at about 60 degrees, and only really being held in place by the balconi tomato plants - not ideal. The added weight from the saturated compost must have just tipped the balance. So I had to find another home for 2 18 inch square trays of strawberries. I put them on the lawn and found a single net cover to go over the bucket of calabrese, which also went onto the lawn. The small spare broccoli plant that was also under there will have to go - its almost certainly not needed. The shelf (made from an old blowaway greenhouse) was dismantled. While the area was clear I weeded the carrots in the carrot cage and pulled the gooseberry bush into the space where the shelves were and pruned it. Found 2 gooseberries hiding amongst the foliage (doubles the total crop for the year). Put back the gooseberry, put the calabrese next to the blackcurrant bush and made a smaller double shelf unit from shorter poles for the 2 trays of strawberry plants. Balconi tomatoes returned to position and the whole lot looks much more stable. That took most of the morning.
I'd also noticed that a couple of other strawberry plants looked unhappy and investigated these. They were infested with strawberry leaf roller, a type of tortrix moth caterpillar. These damn things are everywhere this year - they spin silk and stick leaves together with it, then eat the leaves from inside their safe little tent. They also eat flowers (including strawberry flowers) and I'm pretty sure they are the same things that have developed a taste for my blueberries. I spent ages removing all the ones I could find and tidying up the plants, both of which are Just Add Cream, perpetuals which have plenty of flower buds.
I also fed the flowers on the fence.
With all that, tying in tomatoes and beans, harvesting for lunch and dinner and mowing the front lawn, I didn't have time for the rest of the jobs today.

[Penellype]

This weekend (weather permitting)

At my friend's:
Remove bolted lettuces and plant replacements (currently in greenhouse)
Tie in tomatoes and remove sideshoots
Plenty of weeding
Fill self watering trays in greenhouse
Possibly harvest some potatoes

At home
Remove caterpillars from blueberries
Weeding and deadheading
Cut back mint and chives
Sort out the cabbage
Cut down finished tomato plant in sitting room
Remove old peas if finished
Plant out fennel, pot up kale if ready
Sow cabbage, kohlrabi, mizuna, namenia, salads
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, courgettes, peas, beans, blueberries
Check calabrese

[Small pumpkin]

Today I will be picking chillies
Feeding chillies
Ordering a new fishing reel
Strimming goose run
Making up goose house
Filling goose pond.
Cleaning out ferrets.

[Dorothy rouse]

Ironing
Baking (?). Maybe
Cutdown of 5 ft high nettles
Check if any courgettes have turned into marrow, I actually want a large one, to cook stuffed marrow.
Pull up a few weeds!

[Penellype]

This weekend

At my friend's:
Remove bolted lettuces and plant replacements - done
Tie in tomatoes and remove sideshoots - done some
Plenty of weeding - done loads
Fill self watering trays in greenhouse - done
Possibly harvest some potatoes - no

At home
Remove caterpillars from blueberries - done some
Weeding and deadheading - done some
Cut back mint and chives - no
Sort out the cabbage - no
Cut down finished tomato plant in sitting room - done
Remove old peas if finished - done the finished ones, a few have still got peas on.
Plant out fennel, pot up kale if ready - done both
Sow cabbage, kohlrabi, mizuna, namenia, salads - done
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, courgettes, peas, beans, blueberries - done some of all of these
Check calabrese - checked, harvested and eaten.

Monday's jobs
Likely to be busy at work.
Deadheading and weeding.
Harvest lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, blueberries
Check peas, beans, beetroot, courgettes.

[Baldy]

As I'm on holiday doubtless the rain in Devon will continue. As I'm now mildly peed orf I may put my winter waterproofs on and stand at the plot defiantly shaking my fist tward a god I don't believe in - before planting on a few more beetroot seedlings, lettuce and leeks.
Think Game of Thrones with a small budget.
Winter (veg) is Coming...