What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[geepee]

Thursday jobs
Shred more weeds at allotment
Move peas to grow light garden as some are germinating
Move currant and gooseberry bushes to front garden ready to take to allotment
Bring wheelbarrow home from allotment to transport bushes with (too big to fit in car)
Harvest salads, parsnips

Got a new idea for shredding you weeds into compost and would work for Leylandi and for paths ,

[Penellype]

Got a new idea for shredding you weeds into compost and would work for Leylandi and for paths ,

Sounds interesting...

[veggiechicken]

Tomorrow is Thursday - Thinning and transplanting day. DONE Planted out Bijou Mangetout and Sutton and Aquadulce broad beans.
Tidy bed 15 DONE
Sow an O - Orach DONE In a flowerpot in GH
Declutter an O DONE - pile of Old books ready for charity shop
Clean an O (?Oven) DONEish

Tomorrow is Friday 16th - Flower day.
Deadheading and weeding of planters
Tidy Bed 16
Sow a P - Passiflora caerulea (Passion flower) & Passiflora edulis (Passion fruit)
Declutter a P
Clean a P (doesn't sound very pleasant!)

[Penellype]

Thursday jobs
Shred more weeds at allotment - done a bit
Move peas to grow light garden as some are germinating - done some
Move currant and gooseberry bushes to front garden ready to take to allotment - done gooseberry
Bring wheelbarrow home from allotment to transport bushes with (too big to fit in car) - taken gooseberry to allotment
Harvest salads, parsnips - done

Also planted 80 onion sets at the allotment and spread some old compost on the pea bed. Put the remainder of the packet of peas to chit as I have a feeling that germination is not going to be great in the pots I have sown.

Friday jobs
Take blackcurrant bush to allotment
Check peas and move any more that have germinated to grow light garden
Plant onions at home
Sow spinach at home, cabbage for allotment, and lettuce and beetroot for my friend's hotbed
Harvest salads

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Take blackcurrant bush to allotment - done
Check peas and move any more that have germinated to grow light garden - done
Plant onions at home - done
Sow spinach at home, cabbage for allotment, and lettuce and beetroot for my friend's hotbed - done cabbage
Harvest salads - no

Also pruned a fair amount of the hedge to the west side of the plot and dug and weeded the last of the raised beds.

Weekend jobs (subject to having sufficient energy!)

At my friend's
Plant onions, find fleece and cover
Check lettuces in greenhouse and water
Harvest beetroot

At home
Dig out compost from raised bed that blackcurrant was on and take to allotment for bean bed
Bring fresh horse manure home and make above bed into a hotbed to put potato buckets on
Sow spinach, lettuce and beetroot
Harvest salads, leeks, mizuna, carrots

At allotment
Spread compost from home on bean bed
Shred some of the hawthorn prunings to get them out of the way (very prickly)
Continue pruning hedge to west side

[veggiechicken]

Tomorrow is Friday 16th - Flower day.
Deadheading and weeding of planters DONE
Tidy Bed 16 DONE
Sow a P - Passiflora caerulea (Passion flower) & Passiflora edulis (Passion fruit) DONE
Declutter a P Threw away a broken clothes PEG
Clean a P (doesn't sound very pleasant!) Not done as I can't think of anything!

Tomorrow is Saturday 17th
Saturday is catch-up day!
Tidy Bed 17
Sow a Q?? I'll sow a "platypus muesli" for NG instead
Declutter a Q??
Clean a Q - totally puzzled by this letter. may just have a day off.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Just sat a two day (First Aid) refresher course, so think I am now all up to date, legal and can don my blue Hi-Viz vest from now on with pride!

How sad! All Management, Supervisors, First Aiders have to be distinguished with a "Blue Coat" Honest it sounds like "Butlins" Having said that, the majority of days it is!

Tomorrow is the start of my new season, our lass at work, weather looking good!

My plot is "Getting It"

[Billy's lad]

going to chit my first lot of spuds

[Jungle Jane]

I’m going to the garden centre today to see if there’s something nice for my dads birthday & some bird food,maybe more seed potatoes,Ive got Lady C & Pink Fir so far.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Plant onions, find fleece and cover - done
Check lettuces in greenhouse and water - done
Harvest beetroot - done

Also finished emptying the old hotbed into buckets for potatoes ready for filling next weekend.

At home
Dig out compost from raised bed that blackcurrant was on and take to allotment for bean bed - done
Bring fresh horse manure home and make above bed into a hotbed to put potato buckets on - done
Sow spinach, lettuce and beetroot - done Also planted chitted peas in pots in the propagator
Harvest salads, leeks, mizuna, carrots - done

Also dug out another of the raised beds to make a 2nd hotbed and filled it with fresh muck - I have a feeling every scrap of heat I can generate will be useful this spring! I would do the other 2 beds but they are full of soil and I don't have anywhere else sensible to store it.

At allotment
Spread compost from home on bean bed - done
Shred some of the hawthorn prunings to get them out of the way (very prickly) - done
Continue pruning hedge to west side - no

Also covered all the beds that have been topped with compost with fleece to stop a cat digging in them.

Monday jobs (looks set to rain all day, so much for a "dry" week!)
Cut some more hedge, weather permitting
otherwise looks like a housework day

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Cut some more hedge, weather permitting- no, too wet
otherwise looks like a housework day - done

The rain kept me at home most of the day, where I could nip out when it stopped and come back in during the heavier bursts.
Decided to put up the 1m x 2m polythene tunnel that I am going to grow lady C potatoes in (eventually) and use it to protect the calabrese, which probably won't like being very cold. The tunnel also covers the leeks in the ground, and will hopefully enable me to harvest them before it freezes solid in there. It will be interesting to see how it copes.
The original plan was to plant the first lot of first early potatoes this weekend. As I now have a hotbed I decided to cover it with one of the blowaways built to half height so that buckets will fit inside. I will plant one bucket of potatoes (Arran Pilot) tomorrow to go in there, on the grounds that if you don't try things you never learn anything.
Given that the current forecast for next Monday night is -7 (can't be relied upon, but looks possible), and there was ice on the bucket of carrots in the garage last time we had -3, I ordered a small electric greenhouse heater. This won't heat the whole garage, but if I put it at the end away from the door and lift the buckets up onto a shelf (cold air sinks) I might manage to keep them frost free and useable. This meant rearranging strawberry plants so that I could bring one of the strong aluminium shelves into the garage, and also meant rearranging the garage to accommodate the shelf.
I now feel a little happier that I am in a better position to cope with "the beast from the east".

Also harvested salads, beetroot and carrots.

Tuesday jobs
Take compost that is currently in bucket 40 (grew tomatoes last year) to allotment for leek bed.
Plant 2 Arran Pilot seed potatoes in bucket 40 using compost that grew kohlrabi, wrap in bubble wrap and put on hotbed
Assess situation at allotment, tidy out shed
Spread compost on leek bed and cover with fleece to keep cat off.
Prune more leylandii if time and not too wet
Harvest salads, swede

[Small pumpkin]

Today Counting how many spud bags I've got then working out how many spuds to a bag.
In the mystery seed parcel I got, there was hanging basket seed discs. So going to have a play with that.
Hopefully fill a bit more of the new bed.
Empty a bit more of the compost bin

[Small pumpkin]

Today Counting how many spud bags I've got then working out how many spuds to a bag.
In the mystery seed parcel I got, there was hanging basket seed discs. So going to have a play with that.
Hopefully fill a bit more of the new bed.
Empty a bit more of the compost bin

All done
As you can see compost bin is in need of a little TLC



This much has come out so far



This much has gone into the new beds
( thought it was a lot, till I saw this photo)



This much still to go

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Take compost that is currently in bucket 40 (grew tomatoes last year) to allotment for leek bed - done
Plant 2 Arran Pilot seed potatoes in bucket 40 using compost that grew kohlrabi, wrap in bubble wrap and put on hotbed - done
Assess situation at allotment, tidy out shed - done (sort of)
Spread compost on leek bed and cover with fleece to keep cat off - done
Prune more leylandii if time and not too wet - done
Harvest salads, swede - done salads

Wednesday jobs
Chop leylandii at allotment
Harvest carrots, calabrese

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Chop leylandii at allotment - done some
Harvest carrots, calabrese - done

No gardening tomorrow