What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Tomorrow: prick out my basil seedlings into individual modules.

Mount my new wall mounted Gardena hose. 35m long so it will reach the end of the garden comfortably and auto retracts. No more getting the rubbish Hozelock out.

Not a whole lot else to do right now besides watering the lawn each day if there’s no rain. Hoping to see lawn seed germination in about 10 days or so. It seems to be responding well to the fertiliser treatment and is growing healthily.

[Small pumpkin]

Tomorrow hopefully potting on legumes & cucurbits.

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Collect water and slugs and snails at allotment - done
Dig horsetail if possible - done some
Sow cucumbers - done
Pot up peppers and chitted peas - done
Sort out plants upstairs (some getting too tall for lights) - done some
Harvest salads, spinach, broccoli - done

Thursday jobs
I was hoping for a nice day (forecast) but the radar picture already looks very showery.
Take 4 trugs of horsetail roots to tip
Dig more horsetail (weather permitting)
Finish sorting upstairs plants (some of the tomatoes are germinating and need lights)
Pot up more peas that have chitted over night
Harvest salads, kale, mizuna, spinach

I will be covering all my potatoes and strawberries and probably the apple tree with fleece this weekend as ground frost is possible. Please see the warning I have put in this post https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ml#post1593191

[Small pumpkin]

Cucurbits & legumes potting on done

Today
Take chillies to the tunnel done
Move everything out of tunnel for hardening off done
A little more otter proofing on the fence line ( he's found another way in )
Muck spreading on as many beds as possible
Clean out ferrets & chickens.
Cut back some holly ( I keep hitting my head on when I collect eggs)
Lay more slabs
Water everything
Feed chillies & Bartholomew the tomato
Collapse with exhaustion

Can you tell the weather is good today.
Let's see how much I get done

[Penellype]

Thursday jobs
Take 4 trugs of horsetail roots to tip - done
Dig more horsetail - done quite a bit
Finish sorting upstairs plants - done some
Pot up more peas that have chitted over night - done
Harvest salads, kale, mizuna, spinach - done salads and spinach

Also rigged up a shelf inside my plastic tunnel to protect some of the strawberry plants

Friday jobs
Looks like quite a wet day here so probably mainly housework
Put some sugar peas to chit
Put more germinating tomatoes under lights
Rig up fleece covers for strawberries and apple tree - preferably after the rain has finished as wet fleece is not very effective.
Harvest salads, mizuna, kale

[jonahjonah]

Yesterday

It has been a bad combination of rain and work this week. I did pot on my cabbage and calabrese, mixing a few up in the process. They were leggy, so buried them fairly deep and hoping for the best.

I also planted some leek seeds and some prechitted butternut squash and (old, inherited with the house) PSB seeds.

We're in for rain today and tomorrow, at least. I would like to get to the plot just to have a look, but I'll tell myself I'm dropping off the compostables.

Weekend

The trellis remains on the list. I'm going to have to plant some of the beans out next week whatever the weather because they're getting huge and clinging to each other.

Hack down nettles, dig out big brambles and start covering very back of the plot with cardboard.

[Small pumpkin]

A little more otter proofing on the fence line ( he's found another way in ) done
Muck spreading on as many beds as possible not done moved sage & hyssop plant from bed 3 to beds 7 & 9. Ready for this years companion planting and so I can put muck on bed 3.
Clean out ferrets & chickens. Done
Cut back some holly ( I keep hitting my head on when I collect eggs) done
Lay more slabs some
Water everything done
Feed chillies & Bartholomew the tomato done
Collapse with exhaustion not till I've finished my beer

Tomorrow depends on what time I finish work and what the weather is doing. Hopefully some mowing & strimming

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Put some sugar peas to chit - done
Put more germinating tomatoes under lights - done
Rig up fleece covers for strawberries and apple tree - preferably after the rain has finished as wet fleece is not very effective. - decided to use bubble wrap and leave the apple tree open.
Harvest salads, mizuna, kale -no, but did harvest some rhubarb

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs and snails to chickens
Water greenhouse if required
Sow, parsnips, leeks if ground not too wet
Weeding

At home
General weeding, tidying and deadheading
Sow beetroot, courgettes and possibly melons
Harvest salads, broccoli, mizuna, kale and the odd french bean from the windowsill

At allotment
Continue removing horsetail if possible
Collect rain water
Collect slugs and snails
re-sow summer leeks that slugs have eaten
Make more copper strips for carrot bed
Harvest salads, spinach

[Baldy]

Really need to get the sweetcorn sown today...
Hopefully get to the plot for a few hours - lots to be done there.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs and snails to chickens - done
Water greenhouse if required - done
Sow, parsnips, leeks if ground not too wet - done
Weeding - done some

Also harvested parsnip, leeks and celeriac.

At home
General weeding, tidying and deadheading - done some
Sow beetroot, courgettes and possibly melons - done except melons
Harvest salads, broccoli, mizuna, kale and the odd french bean from the windowsill - done

Also mowed the lawns which surprisingly were dry enough, and checked everything is secure in anticipation of gales. Moved strawberries under cover as frost is forecast. Potted up some chitted sugar peas and tomato sideshoots.

At allotment
Continue removing horsetail if possible - done some
Collect rain water - done
Collect slugs and snails - done
re-sow summer leeks that slugs have eaten - done
Make more copper strips for carrot bed - done
Harvest salads, spinach - done

Also cut the grass and shredded a bit more of the leylandii.

Monday jobs
Expecting it to be very windy and cold, unlikely to get much done outdoors.
Pot up any more chitted sugar peas
Sort seeds ready for May sowings
Sow melons
Harvest salads, spinach, broccoli

[jonahjonah]

Weekend

The trellis remains on the list. I'm going to have to plant some of the beans out next week whatever the weather because they're getting huge and clinging to each other. - No progress. I need to take the drill down to the plot and replace my nails with screws.

Hack down nettles, dig out big brambles and start covering very back of the plot with cardboard. - Started ripping up nettles, which were then stuffed into old milk jugs along with some water that collected on my black plastic.

Tomorrow

Trellis. Did I mention trellis?

Continue clearing back of the plot and covering with mulch.

Weed around the garlic and shallots.

[happyhumph]

Tomorrow - mow the back lawn. Start getting pretty much anything ready - v far behind this year.....

[Small pumpkin]

Today
Chillies into tunnel for the day.
Everything out of other tunnel for hardening off.
Level slabs.
Finish getting sales barrow ready.
Mow front lawn again on lower cut.
Strimming anywhere that needs it.
Weed and tidy bed 5
Possibly muck spreading if time.

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Pot up any more chitted sugar peas - done
Sort seeds ready for May sowings - done
Sow melons - no, brought in pots of compost but letting them warm up first
Harvest salads, spinach, broccoli - done plus a carrot from the indoor pot

Did manage to go to the allotment and dug out some more horsetail roots. Also put strawberry plants in the garage and shed for the night.

Tuesday jobs
Sow melons, carrots, tomatoes to replace a few seeds that haven't germinated
Bring strawberries out of garage and shed.
Plant peas
Dig more horsetail
Harvest salads, spinach

[jonahjonah]

Today

Trellis. Did I mention trellis? - Too windy and too late when I got to the plot. Soon!

Continue clearing back of the plot and covering with mulch. - Yes, with some help today. A few brambles hacked down, nettles and grass torn out. Still digging to do, but giving myself the mental boost of seeing some clearance. Working around the nice stuff that is growing back.

Weed around the garlic and shallots. - Yes, a bit. I have some salad leaf seedlings that should start giving some cover if the weather ever gives them a boost.

Also set some slug pub traps.

Tuesday/Wednesday

Check my slug traps
Start the beans hardening off outside
Slop drowned weeds into the compost (my weed drowning bin smells pleasing awful now)
Dig out some roots and drown
Dare I say 'Trellis'?