What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check lettuces in greenhouse and other veg - done
Take a load of rotted horse manure ready for first bed - done

At home
Check hotbin and add stuff if room (was full last time I checked) - done
Continue planning - in progress
Harvest salads, carrots, brokali and calabrese - done salads and carrots, the brokali and calabrese were frozen.

Continue clearing and planning at allotment - in progress.

[veggiechicken]

Today, Monday 8th is the start of Shoots week - the day when I sow leeks, onions and things with funny names.
I should tidy Bed 8 but its still very cold so probably won't do more than go and look at it.
Decluttering an H or 5.
Also Boiler being serviced at the neighbour's house down the road and I'm on call for that!

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Frozen solid here so nothing much is going to happen outside
Continue planning
Harvest salads

[Jammers27]

Weekday Jobs
Continue planning. lots of thoughts getting the grey matter moving..
diary entries for weather and temperature always nice to keep a year by year account.

Last Weekend-
Veg Planter dug and cleared ready for this year.
homemade compost added to/ checked/ used abit to add to veg planter

Next Weekend-
Buy new bags of compost & start sowing Tomatoes & Sweet Peppers

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Continue planning - in progress
Harvest salads - done plus a carrot from the garage

Also had a good walk round checking everything and making sure I'm not neglecting the garden! All looks fine (there is really just the moss to get off the hosta pots, which can't be done when its frozen anyway).

Tuesday jobs
Go to allotment and check the state of the ground (its about defrosted at home) - decide what to do there depending on frost/wet
Harvest salads, carrots, brokali

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Go to allotment and check the state of the ground (its about defrosted at home) - decide what to do there depending on frost/wet - done
Harvest salads, carrots, brokali - no

Dug out the raspberries and some weeds at the allotment. Took a couple of dustbins from the garage to store water and perennial weed roots. By the time I'd got home and dealt with work it was too dark to start harvesting things!

Wednesday jobs
Bit fed up with the weather which was forecast dry for today, but now its apparently going to rain all day here.
More weeding/digging at allotment, weather permitting
Go to Wickes and get a few bricks (to weigh down weed matting for paths temporarily) and a couple of paving slabs to stand the plastic dustbin and another water butt (later) on so they are level.
Sort out garage (a mess due to extracting dustbins from the far corner)
Harvest salads, carrots, brokali

[veggiechicken]

Wednesday and the sun's shining. Time to do a bit of catching up!
Some "shoots" to sow
GH to water
Chooks to clean
Enjoy the sunshine.

[veggiechicken]

Wednesday and the sun's shining. Time to do a bit of catching up!
Some "shoots" to sow Done - leeks and spring onions
GH to water Done
Chooks to clean Done
Enjoy the sunshine Done

Tomorrow, Thursday is Thinning and Transplanting day. Not sure what there is to do?
Tidy bed 11
Declutter K

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
More weeding/digging at allotment, weather permitting - done some
Go to Wickes and get a few bricks (to weigh down weed matting for paths temporarily) and a couple of paving slabs to stand the plastic dustbin and another water butt (later) on so they are level - done
Sort out garage (a mess due to extracting dustbins from the far corner) - no
Harvest salads, carrots, brokali - done

Found a tortrix moth caterpillar on the brokali. I was hoping the damn things would not survive the frost, but they clearly do . Needless to say it did not survive being found by me. Also found and removed a load of slug eggs and some slugs under the blue barrel at the allotment. Food for my friend's chickens at the weekend.

Busy Thursday, so no gardening today.

[Mr Bones]

Probably see about turning the compost again, we're trying to hurry it along so it can be used this spring.

[Small pumpkin]

I'm suddenly motivated! Because the weather is lovely (but cold). I'm hoping to cover the bed in the tunnel with well rotted manure and weed fabric. Also clean tunnel inside & out.

[rary]

Removed the fire bricks that I had placed in my fire and placed them round the top of the fire and the chimney, can now fit large logs onto the fire

[veggiechicken]

Tomorrow, Thursday is Thinning and Transplanting day. Done Potted on Cabbage (Pyramid) seedlings - some into their final pots in the GH (experiment )
Tidy bed 11 Done Lots of hoeing in various beds.
Declutter K Done

Tomorrow, Friday, is Flowers day. Hope to pot up or plant out some hyacinth bulbs that have been sitting around for a week or so. Dead head geraniiums in the GH.
Tidy Bed 12
Declutter L

[Penellype]

Friday jobs (work permitting, could be busy)
Attempt to construct some compost bins at the allotment
Dig up more weeds if not too wet
Harvest carrots and possibly a swede.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Attempt to construct some compost bins at the allotment - done (sort of)
Dig up more weeds if not too wet - done
Harvest carrots and possibly a swede - no

Brought 2 pots of compost indoors to warm up for tomatoes

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check lettuces in greenhouse and water if necessary
Check outdoor plants and remove any weeds
Feed slugs to chickens

At home
Sow 2 Shirley tomato seeds
Pot up lettuce seedlings
Top up hotbin
Clear out indoor plants that have finished
Harvest salads, indoor tomatoes and pepper, carrots, swede

At allotment
Assess state of cabbages and bring anything edible home for spring greens (they are in the way)
Continue clearing weeds
Take a couple of drip trays to catch extra rain (wet on Monday)
Remove various plastic bags etc from hedges