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At my friend's
Take courgette, peppers and tomato plants to greenhouse - done
Weeding - done
Get compost and plant peppers in chiligrow planter and tomatoes (3) in Hozelock planter - no
Remove bolted broccoli, swede, kale and kohlrabi and slug eaten cabbages and feed to chickens - no
Put shading up in greenhouse - done
Watering - done
Also took the inside cover off the potatoes in the greenhouse as they were getting too hot.
At home
Pot up lettuces, calabrese and chitted beans - done
Trim lawn edges front and back - done
Remove bolted brassicas (kale, mizuna, mooli) - done mooli ans some bolted spinach.
Take plastic covers off potatoes and put up restraining mesh fence - done
Decide which and how many bedding and basket plants to buy for flower beds and fence - in progress
Harvest spinach, carrots - done
Watering - done
Also converted the potato covers into a blowaway growhouse for hardening off the tomatoes.
Also raked along the bottom of the leylandii hedge and mowed the grass there.
Quite pleased with that lot!
Monday jobs (work permitting)
Continue digging/pulling horsetail
Go to garden centre and get compost and some plants for the fence
Remove more bolted brassicas etc
watering
Continue planting out anything that doesn't need to stay in the greenhouse. - Finally planted out more seedlings/plants: courgette, butternut squash, PSB, marigolds, beans.
Bring home some larger pots from the mound at the allotment. - No
Set up another capillary matting area. - No. I'm almost down to my greenhouse resident plants now, so should be doable soon.
Start hacking down everything on the periphery. The loosestrife looks nice but is spreading everywhere. - Ugh, no.
Busy weekend with DIY, so not much got done. I'll leave the leftovers on the list for the rest of the week.
Monday jobs
Continue digging/pulling horsetail - done some - pulled out a load from under the roadside hedge
Go to garden centre and get compost and some plants for the fence - done
Remove more bolted brassicas etc - done some
watering - done
Also harvested lettuce and spinach from the allotment.
Tuesday jobs
Deadhead plants on fence and remove pots of bulbs that have finished
Remove horsetail from raised beds (again)
Start digging over road half of tunnel again including under water bin (which is now nearly empty)
Harvest lettuce, spinach, broccoli/calabrese/brokali, carrots
Watering
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
Tuesday jobs
Deadhead plants on fence and remove pots of bulbs that have finished - done
Remove horsetail from raised beds (again) - no
Start digging over road half of tunnel again including under water bin (which is now nearly empty) - done some
Harvest lettuce, spinach, broccoli/calabrese/brokali, carrots - done
Watering - done
Also potted up some Marguerites to replace the pots of bulbs under the fence. Potted up calabrese and romanesco seedlings. Went to Wyevale to get sweet potato plants and tomato Megabyte, both of which they had last year. Didn't have either . Cut down the 3 brokali plants that have now finished.
Wednesday jobs
Pull horsetail from raised beds
Dig more horsetail in tunnel
Pot up pink blueberry
Rearrange plants on fence and remove dead violas.
Harvest lettuce, spinach
Watering
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
-Move out half of my jungle of veg from the windowsill to outside to harden off, except for chillies, tomatoes (sowed late, a bit behind) cucumbers, and maybe the sweetcorn too
-Put up bean supports and netting
-plant up climbing beans
-water plum and fig trees in large pots
-sow spinach, kale,chard,beets, greens etc into modules
today - nip over to plot after work to water and check over (and doubtless pull up some marestail).
no chance to get down there this coming weekend. Weekend after is operation plant - going to get everything out of my greenhouse and into the ground so I can finally set up my cukes and toms.
Wednesday jobs
Pull horsetail from raised beds - done some
Dig more horsetail in tunnel - done some
Pot up pink blueberry - no, need more compost
Rearrange plants on fence and remove dead violas - done some
Harvest lettuce, spinach - done, plus PSB and carrot
Watering - done
Thursday jobs
Pull horsetail out of cauliflower bed and hotbed
Dig horsetail in tunnel
Get more ericaceous compost and pot up blueberry
Pot up 2 balconi red tomatoes
Plant beetroot
Put out trays to catch rain water
Harvest lettuce, spinach
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
I did some major weeding (more like strimming by hand).
We leave for two weeks on Saturday. Our plot neighbors were jokingly horrified, but kindly offered to water anything that looked truly dire in our absence.
Before we go
Plant out everything that isn't a greenhouse resident or intended for a hanging basket.
Pot on tomatoes.
Refill slug traps.
Tomorrow will be road trip to fort William mostly for chicken food & compost
Will probably have a go at filling our own cupboards while we're there as well .
Thursday jobs
Pull horsetail out of cauliflower bed and hotbed - done a bit
Dig horsetail in tunnel - done some
Get more ericaceous compost and pot up blueberry - done
Pot up 2 balconi red tomatoes - done
Plant beetroot - done
Put out trays to catch rain water - done
Harvest lettuce, spinach - done spinach
Also mowed the lawns and planted up the pot in the middle of the front lawn.
No gardening tomorrow - family stuff, and forecast to rain all day anyway.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
Today's must do job is to get the garden shed painted with stain/preservative. My shed at the plot is also in need of a freshen up but that will have to wait.
Tomorrow will be road trip to fort William mostly for chicken food & compost
Will probably have a go at filling our own cupboards while we're there as well .
9 bags of chicken feed - got
9 bags of compost - got ( jacks magic 3 for �10 )
Cupboards & freezer full
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