What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Check how allotment has coped with very cold night (water butts, hotbed) - done
Pot up chitted peas for pea shoots - done
Continue planning - in progress
Clear space for potato chitting (seed potatoes are on their way) - done and put potatoes to chit
Harvest carrots (from garage) - done plus beetroot from the allotment and lettuce from indoors.

No gardening today - too busy and far, far too cold.

Friday jobs
Stay inside and keep warm!
Planning.
Harvest carrots from garage if defrosted.

[Chestnut]

popping to the plot to pick some kale and sprouts, purchasing a replacement kettle, and spending the afternoon in the kitchen cooking soups, casseroles etc for the freezer

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Stay inside and keep warm! - mostly
Planning - in progress
Harvest carrots from garage if defrosted - done

Too cold, icy and slippery to do anything much, but I did prise off some of the thick layer of ice outside the garage door in the hope of making it less dangerous.

Weekend jobs
As there is currently snow on frozen ground and tonight is forecast to be -5, I probably won't get any gardening done this weekend. Hopefully I will get a chance to nip down to the allotment and check that all is still ok. I might take some photos if I can remember and its not too cold.

[SarrissUK]

It's still fairly mild here, even though I'm not physically far from Penelype, but snow on the ground today. I tried to put up some more fencing along the perimeter of the plot, as it's a windy site, but I'd forgotten to bring my sledgehammer, and a hammer ain't enough to drive down fence posts lol I'll try again tomorrow.

Added a bed in the grow tunnel and filled it with well rotted horse manure. Will add a layer of home made compost before I grow in it in the spring.

[Penellype]

As predicted all that got done at the weekend was a few photos of the allotment (on my allotment thread) as everything was frozen solid.

Monday jobs
Remove the last finished tomato plant in the sitting room
Phone the man at the council and try to find out when they are going to remove the hedge
Assess state of ground at allotment and decide if anything can be done yet
Possibly start on shifting some compost
Harvest final few small tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot, peppers

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Remove the last finished tomato plant in the sitting room - done
Phone the man at the council and try to find out when they are going to remove the hedge - done, supposed to be starting today!
Assess state of ground at allotment and decide if anything can be done yet - done
Possibly start on shifting some compost - done some
Harvest final few small tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot, peppers - done

Tuesday jobs (dodging parcel deliveries, work calls and freezing fog)
Try to find out which end of the allotments the tree men are starting
Pot up fruit trees if they arrive today
Harvest lettuce, carrots, PSB or brokali

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Try to find out which end of the allotments the tree men are starting - done, they are starting at the other end of the allotments
Pot up fruit trees if they arrive today - put the blocks of compost to soak
Harvest lettuce, carrots, PSB or brokali - done

Wednesday jobs
Pot up the 2 trees that are staying at home
Take cherry tree and compost to allotment and pot up
Decide what to do with 6 free strawberry plants that I'd forgotten were coming with the trees
Pot up lettuce seedlings
Sow more indoor tomatoes (Shirley)
Harvest carrots

[Gillykat]

Despite the forecast of heavy rain and strong winds I need to go up to the allotment to finish off a few greenhouse jobs.

1: Set out potatoes in trays to chit.

2: Finish potting up a few bags of spring bulbs I'd forgotten where in the shed *whoopsie* so I'm sticking them in pots for now and hope they make up for lost time

3: Back home......sow sweet peas and Walla Walla onions.


There'll probably be more jobs I've forgotten about at the moment which will come to me once I'm up on the plot

[Gillykat]

Just remembered my other job.....potting up some onion & shallot sets got from Wilko on Tuesday

[miffy]

Weed for Britain!

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Pot up the 2 trees that are staying at home - done
Take cherry tree and compost to allotment and pot up - done
Decide what to do with 6 free strawberry plants that I'd forgotten were coming with the trees - done
Pot up lettuce seedlings - done
Sow more indoor tomatoes (Shirley) - no
Harvest carrots - done

Yesterday was stupidly busy and I hardly had time to look out of the window let alone do any gardening.

Friday jobs (weather permitting)
Check on progress with the hedge cutting at allotment.
Check garden for cat poo and remove, put up pea supports
Sow Shirley tomatoes, meteor peas
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest leek, carrots, swede and make soup

[cliffo]

Time to...

Get some seedlings potted on
Get some new seeds into the propagator

Continue with the laborious task of shifting 2 ton of compost from the drive to the back garden (through the newly renovated house...)
Try to root some rosemary
Chit some potatoes
Keep tidying the garden...

[Chestnut]

Depends how wet it is. I can choose from
Weeding
Mulching
Pruning fruit trees and bushes
Potting up 3 baby blueberry plants
Digging out a bramble stump
Finishing a path
Sowing some seeds in the greenhouse
Making paper pots
;-)

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Check on progress with the hedge cutting at allotment - done, reasonable progress
Check garden for cat poo and remove, put up pea supports - covered the ground with clear plastic, but didn't put supports up
Sow Shirley tomatoes, meteor peas - done
Plan weekend gardening - done
Harvest leek, carrots, swede and make soup - done

Weekend jobs (weather permitting)

At my friend's
Feed slugs to chickens
Check for wind damage
Weeding if possible (likely to be very wet)

At allotment
Check for wind damage and remove any rubbish
Take jar of slugs to stables for chickens
Check progress of tree cutting
Plant onion sets if not too wet
Harvest turnip

At home
Check for wind damage
Remove moss from hosta pots
Empty some compost out of hotbin (full)
Check stored potatoes and use any that are starting to sprout
Tidy garage
Wash plant pots
Harvest carrots, peppers

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs (weather permitting)

At my friend's
Feed slugs to chickens - done
Check for wind damage - looks ok
Weeding if possible (likely to be very wet) - no

At allotment
Check for wind damage and remove any rubbish - done
Take jar of slugs to stables for chickens - done
Check progress of tree cutting - done
Plant onion sets if not too wet - done
Harvest turnip - done plus a leek

At home
Check for wind damage - done
Remove moss from hosta pots - part done
Empty some compost out of hotbin (full) - done
Check stored potatoes and use any that are starting to sprout - done
Tidy garage - started
Wash plant pots - no
Harvest carrots, peppers - done carrots

Also pruned the spirea and mulched the house end of the garden and the apple and white currant.

Monday jobs (stuck at home until alarm has been serviced)
Check progress of tree cutting
Continue tidying garage
Take rubbish & recycling to tip
Remove moss from last hosta pot
Tie up clematis which has been dislodged by wind
Weeding
Harvest calabrese, carrots