What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Small pumpkin]

Today
Finish weeding bed 4
Mow and strim front garden, car parking area, veggie garden.
Tidy two of my sheds.
More weeding if time.

[Penellype]

Yesterday's jobs:
Tidy rear lawn edges - done
Peg down more strawberry runners - done
Check tomatoes, remove sideshoots and tie in as required - done
Check and tie in cucumber if necessary - done, added more mesh to fence for it to climb along
Check brassica seedlings and pot up if necessary - not ready yet
Pea and bean seedlings to go outside - pot up beans - done
Balconi tomato plant to go out and pot up into balconniere - done
Deadheading and weeding as required - done some
Harvest salads, tomatoes, orange pepper, turnips, calabrese, strawberries, black and possibly white currants - done except for white currants, not ready yet
Feed flowers on fences - done
Watering - done

Also trimmed some of the dead bits off the clematis.

Struggling to tell when the blackcurrants are ripe. A few are pleasantly sweet (ish), but some are horribly sour, even though they are black. Any tips appreciated as its the first time I've grown these.

Today's job:
Collect rain water for blueberries.

[Penellype]

Today's job:
Continue collecting rain water for blueberries.

Yesterday and today I did manage to harvest a few strawberries and remove a few slugs and snails, otherwise its just been far too wet to do anything.

[Jungle Jane]

Struggling to tell when the blackcurrants are ripe. A few are pleasantly sweet (ish), but some are horribly sour, even though they are black. Any tips appreciated as its the first time I've grown these.

This mentions currants at the top of the bunch of fruit ripening first in older varieties? I don't know if that helps,hopefully someone will know? This is from the rhs;
Harvest the fruit on modern varieties such as the ‘Ben Sarek’, ‘Ben Hope’, ‘Ben Lomond’ and ‘Ben Connan’ by cutting the strigs (bunches of fruit) as they turn black. Older types of blackcurrant varieties ripen at different times, with the currants at the top of the strig ripening first. The fruit should therefore be picked individually.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-y.../blackcurrants

[Potstubsdustbins]

If it rains tomorrow like it has rained today I intend to .......................look out the window and sigh...

[Penellype]

This mentions currants at the top of the bunch of fruit ripening first in older varieties? I don't know if that helps,hopefully someone will know? This is from the rhs;
Harvest the fruit on modern varieties such as the ‘Ben Sarek’, ‘Ben Hope’, ‘Ben Lomond’ and ‘Ben Connan’ by cutting the strigs (bunches of fruit) as they turn black. Older types of blackcurrant varieties ripen at different times, with the currants at the top of the strig ripening first. The fruit should therefore be picked individually.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-y.../blackcurrants

Thanks - mine is Ben Sarek, but I'm finding it difficult to tell the correct shade of black. Maybe I'm just a bit impatient!

[Penellype]

Thursdays are usually busy and today is no exception.

Have collected enough water to almost fill my bin.

Today's jobs
Empty drip trays so seedlings don't drown
Feed hotbin
Harvest strawberries, peas, tomatoes
Slug and snail hunt

[Penellype]

Yesterday's jobs (and today)
Empty drip trays so seedlings don't drown - done some
Feed hotbin - done
Harvest strawberries, peas, tomatoes - done plus a red snackbite pepper
Slug and snail hunt - done a bit

Also managed to pot up some lettuce seedlings and do some deadheading today in between various appointments.

Weekend jobs (soggy gardens permitting)
At my friend's
Weeding
Sort out another of the paths
Plant out french beans
Tie in tomatoes and remove sideshoots
Feed slugs and snails to chickens
Harvest cucumber and possibly peas and cabbage

At home
Pot up brokali seedlings
Rearrange carrot cage to accommodate brokali
Rescue carrots from flooded drip trays
Rearrange pots to make room for displaced turnips and parsnips
Possibly harvest a bucket of Charlotte potatoes
Pot up late peas and the rest of the lettuces
Tie in tomatoes and remove sideshoots
Train runner beans along canes
Deadheading and weeding
Harvest tomatoes, peas, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, currants and strawberries

[Small pumpkin]

Today I will be thinning carrots and watching the ........... ....... ......... Rain!
( feel free to fill in the missing words )

[Snoop Puss]

Plant out another load of tomato plants. They were given to me by a close local friend and I feel obliged to put them in.

Could also do with earthing up the Charlotte potatoes, as they're busting through the soil at the top. The trouble is, I've managed to create a brilliant channel for watering them and any earthing up I do will ruin that. Back to the drawing board for next year...

Have already watered everything that needed it, tied in the pepper and aubergine plants and trimmed the existing tomato plants.

[Jay-ell]

Think I'll empty a bag of spuds to see how they've done. Also sting up the last of the garlic and Oerprei.
Plan on sowing buckwheat into the empty overwintering allium beds.
Might even put the ends onto the new long bed but I'll see about that.

[Darthcider]

Watching the Tour de France, because I can't watch it during the week.

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs (soggy gardens permitting)
At my friend's
Weeding - done some
Sort out another of the paths - done
Plant out french beans - done
Tie in tomatoes and remove sideshoots - done for now
Feed slugs and snails to chickens - done
Harvest cucumber and possibly peas and cabbage - done + a small beetroot

At home
Pot up brokali seedlings - done
Rearrange carrot cage to accommodate brokali - done
Rescue carrots from flooded drip trays - done
Rearrange pots to make room for displaced turnips and parsnips - done
Possibly harvest a bucket of Charlotte potatoes - done 1.05kg potatoes from this one.
Pot up late peas and the rest of the lettuces - done peas
Tie in tomatoes and remove sideshoots - done some
Train runner beans along canes - done
Deadheading and weeding - done some
Harvest tomatoes, peas, lettuce, turnips, cabbage, currants and strawberries - done + a couple of carrots.

Also sowed more florence fennel as only 2 seeds have germinated.

Monday's jobs:
Mow front lawn
Feed fence pots
More deadheading
Tidy up strawberry plants that have finished fruiting and swop with wild strawberries to give those more sun
War on blackfly (my friend suggests vinegar and fairy liquid - nothing to lose as the nasturtiums are dying).
Harvest lettuce and salad leaves, peppers, peas, strawberries, tomatoes, currants and carrots.

[Small pumpkin]

Me and little breeze are going to take some fruit, salad bags & lettuce to the honesty shop.
Tie up chillies and tomatoes.
Taking photos and asking questions about Humphrey ( the pumpkin). You have been warned

[BUFFS]

I will be keeping an eye on the peaches in the greenhouse as I found one dropped off the tree this morning
and the others look to be only days off being ready and I am drooling now thinking about sinking my teeth into them, AND... the sun has come out....again, I hope at long last it is developing a habit as we are fed up with 12 to 13deg in the middle of summer, so this brightness is most welcome..