Miraculously the greenhouse IS still standing, with no damage what so ever. I'm so pleased
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Tuesday jobs
Check allotment and collect any slugs and snails - done
Attempt to replace bulb in grow light - I can't see how to get the old one out! - no
Dig horsetail if time - done some
Harvest carrots - done plus PSB and rhubarb
Also sorted out the shed at the allotment.
Wednesday jobs
Very wet everywhere and forecast heavy showers, possibly with hail and thunder so I will probably be concentrating on things at home, mainly indoors.
Check allotment, collect water and any slugs and snails
Move germinated peas under lights
Attempt to change that bulb in the grow light
Harvest lettuce, microgreens, carrotsA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Wednesday jobs
Check allotment, collect water and any slugs and snails - done
Move germinated peas under lights - done
Attempt to change that bulb in the grow light - done - I had to unscrew part of it to get the bulb out
Harvest lettuce, microgreens, carrots - done
No gardening today.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Friday jobs
Collect slugs and snails
Plan weekend gardening
Pot up Balconi tomatoes
Dig horsetail if possible (likely to be too wet)
Harvest baby lettuce, carrots, calabrese/brokaliA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Friday jobs
Collect slugs and snails - done
Plan weekend gardening - done
Pot up Balconi tomatoes - done
Dig horsetail if possible - no, ground too wet
Harvest baby lettuce, carrots, calabrese/brokali - done carrots
Also shuffled the compost about a bit at the allotment and planted 4 buckets of potatoes.
Weekend jobs
Weather does not look particularly helpful.
At my friend's
Feed slugs to chickens
Plant early potatoes in buckets in greenhouse
Weeding if possible
At allotment
Collect slugs and snails
Check for wind damage
Check hotbed and water if necessary
Plant more buckets of potatoes
Weeding
Harvest baby lettuce, parsnip, brokali
At home
Move peas to growhouse and sow more
Plant early potatoes
Harvest carrotsA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Pick tape off cardboard boxes and make paper pots until it stops raining - done
Dig out a blackberry- done
Plant the raspberry canes which arrived this week-done
Continue mulching soft fruit if ground not too wet- done some
Dig out the diddy sprout plants which haven’t started forming sprouts yet...
Build a cold frame and sow carrots and spring onions underneath it
Finish a few paths/steps
Tidy greenhouse
Sow broad beans in pots -done
Something tells me some of these will have to be deferred til next week as I am working tomorrow ;-)Last edited by Chestnut; 09-03-2019, 06:36 PM.
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Weekend jobs
At my friend's
Feed slugs to chickens - done
Plant early potatoes in buckets in greenhouse - done
Weeding if possible - no
At allotment
Collect slugs and snails - done
Check for wind damage - done
Check hotbed and water if necessary - done
Plant more buckets of potatoes - done
Weeding - no
Harvest baby lettuce, parsnip, brokali - done lettuce and parsnip
At home
Move peas to growhouse and sow more - moved the peas out but not yet sown any more
Plant early potatoes - no
Harvest carrots - done
Monday jobs
Collect slugs and snails
Sow peas
Weeding
Plant 2 buckets of Maris Bard potatoes at home
Check everything is secure for mid week gales
Harvest lettuce, carrots, brokaliA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Monday jobs
Collect slugs and snails - done
Sow peas - no
Weeding - done
Plant 2 buckets of Maris Bard potatoes at home - no, decided to wait until after the gales which would probably dislodge any cover.
Check everything is secure for mid week gales - done
Harvest lettuce, carrots, brokali - done except brokali, harvested swedes and cabbage instead.
Also put some lawn edging in at the allotment.
Tuesday jobs (weather permitting)
Sow peas
Wash plant pots
Harvest carrotsA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Tuesday jobs
Sow peas - done
Wash plant pots - no
Harvest carrots - done
Wednesday jobs (weather & time permitting)
Check for wind damage
Weeding
Sow summer leeks
Harvest carrots, lettuceA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Today bought chicken pellets for raised bed. Pellets will go in soon's the wind dies down. Gales and chicken **** dinnae mix.
Also: done bought compost. Got an old clean compost bag full of microscopic holes & the Aldi slow cooker wot packed in after 3 months. Jest waitin on some Giant Winter leek seeds to arrive - tomorry, likely - then will sow in slow cooker which has the necessary depth.
Hope springs eternal; or is it madness? Or maybe just bad grammar/spelling/regional dialect.Last edited by Aunty Social; 13-03-2019, 02:05 PM.sigpic
From Planet of the Apes to Animal Farm: a record of our first year in a microscopic country village with more cows and stars than people -
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Wednesday jobs
Check for wind damage - done
Weeding - no
Sow summer leeks - done
Harvest carrots, lettuce - done
Thursday jobs (no gardening time)
Check for wind damage - done
Harvest PSB and brokali - doneA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Friday jobs
Check for wind damage (morning)
Check for wind damage (evening)
Pot up tomato sideshoots
Sow peppers to replace ones that haven't germinated
Water pots on fence (drying out due to gales)
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest some of carrots, brokali, PSB, calabrese, kohlrabi, parsnips (all desperate due to hot February)
(Can you tell I'm sick of this weather?)A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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Friday jobs
Check for wind damage (morning) - done and mended hotbed cover
Check for wind damage (evening) - done and mended hotbed cover again
Pot up tomato sideshoots - done
Sow peppers to replace ones that haven't germinated - no
Water pots on fence (drying out due to gales) - done
Plan weekend gardening - done
Harvest some of carrots, brokali, PSB, calabrese, kohlrabi, parsnips - done carrots, calabrese and parsnip
Also planted 16 cauliflowers and moved covers about to cover them.
Weekend jobs
Expecting Saturday to be a total write-off
At my friend's
Weeding if possible
Tidy greenhouse
At allotment
Sort out hotbed cover
Plant out peas if at all possible
Weeding
Harvest brokali, lettuce
At home
Plant potatoes and construct cover
Sow peppers
Harvest carrotsA life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy
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