What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Fill parsnip bed - part done
General weed and tidy - done some
Check hedges at allotment for plastic rubbish (windy today) - done
Prune white currant and blueberries - done currant, trimmed some dieback off blueberries
Harvest carrots, check broccoli - done

Also potted up some strawberry runners as the roots were coming through the holes at the bottom of the pots. More to do.

Wednesday jobs
Take growbag to allotment and finish potting up strawberries
Take compost to allotment and top up cauliflower bed
Harvest lettuce, possibly carrots and calabrese

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Take growbag to allotment and finish potting up strawberries - done
Take compost to allotment and top up cauliflower bed - done
Harvest lettuce, possibly carrots and calabrese - done (PSB instead of calabrese)

No gardening today.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Deadheading, weeding and general tidy up
Bring in compost to warm for Balconi tomatoes
Dig horsetail
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest peppers

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Deadheading, weeding and general tidy up - done some
Bring in compost to warm for Balconi tomatoes - done
Dig horsetail - done some
Plan weekend gardening - done
Harvest peppers - done

Also sowed some lettuce seeds.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs and snails to chickens
Collect fresh horse manure for hotbed

At allotment
Fill hotbed with horse manure
Get compost from garden centre (or preferably get them to deliver it)
Cover hotbed if not too windy to put cover up
Harvest lettuce, beetroot, leek, parsnip

At home
Deadheading and general tidy
Sow 2 Balconi tomato seeds
Harvest carrots, calabrese

[unclefudgly]

Have been busy at the lotty this week

Emptied raised beds and refilled with compost from old heap
Moved new compost heap to where old one was
Took down old 8ft polytunnel
Dug over ground under new compost heap and old polytunnel

To do this week:

Level ground under old polytunnel
Install probase base for new 6x8 glass greenhouse
Erect greenhouse onto base
Make paths and raised beds to connect everything together

[Baldy]

there's a shed needs kicking into shape...

[SarrissUK]

I'm heading up to the allotment tomorrow, and I'm taking packup and plenty of hot drinks. Can't wait

There will be more carpet to pull up... and.. some more carpet lol Running a little low on manure too now, but found that there's plenty of leaves to get hold of, along with well rotted wood chip, so might use that along with all the carboard that I've dragged up there to cover some new beds once the carpet has been banished.

[Chestnut]

Hoping rain will hold off long enough to get me to the allotment for some weeding, finishing off a raised bed, popping a couple of steps in between the terraced beds, and sprout harvesting.

If it rains, I will head to the gh and sow some salads, leeks, onions etc.

Edit: did some weeding and harvested the sprouts, and had a good chat to some fellow plot holders.
Found seeds and realised it had gone dark by the time I had found the ones I wanted to sow, so they are all now sorted by sowing month/half month

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs and snails to chickens - done
Collect fresh horse manure for hotbed - done

At allotment
Fill hotbed with horse manure - done
Get compost from garden centre - done
Cover hotbed if not too windy to put cover up - no
Harvest lettuce, beetroot, leek, parsnip - no

At home
Deadheading and general tidy - done a bit
Sow 2 Balconi tomato seeds - done
Harvest carrots, calabrese - no

Monday jobs
Put cover up over hotbed
General tidy up
Dig horsetail
harvest carrots, leek

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Put cover up over hotbed - done
General tidy up - done some
Dig horsetail - done some
harvest carrots, leek - done

Tuesday jobs
Continue tidying up
Dig horsetail
Check pots for watering (been dry)
Harvest carrots, parsnip, leek

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Continue tidying up - done some
Dig horsetail - done some
Check pots for watering (been dry) - done, fence pots needed water
Harvest carrots, parsnip, leek - done

Also took the net off the carrot cage and dropped the parsnip net onto curved hoops rather than upright stakes, in preparation for snow which may or may not arrive on Friday/Saturday.

Wednesday (rain forecast)
Take tennis balls to allotment and make sure each water bin has at least one for frost protection
Cover parsnips with fleece to try to stop soil freezing
Put together new shelves (arrived yesterday) and take to allotment
Harvest romanesco, carrots

[Gillykat]

I've had this week of work and took advantage of the dry weather.

Today I continued to dig over the top area and outline a few beds. They'll get a proper dig over in the spring before I sow stuff or plant out into them.

Potted up a few perennials that had roots coming through the bottom of their pots (osteospermum, rudbeckia etc).

Sorted through some Winter Aconite that were in tiny pots from last spring.....basically just tipped them all into a cat litter tray to see whether there were signs of life or whether slugs etc had eaten them (still have a few with good root growth) and I'll pot them up into a bigger pot tomorrow.

Checked my canna corms (bulbs? roots stock?) and they're doing good in trays of dry compost.

Popped up to council office and paid allotment rent for the year


Felt good to finally start getting a few jobs done

[Penellype]

Wednesday
Take tennis balls to allotment and make sure each water bin has at least one for frost protection - done
Cover parsnips with fleece to try to stop soil freezing - done
Put together new shelves (arrived yesterday) and take to allotment - no, when I unpacked them some of the bits were the wrong size . Phoned and they will send the correct ones ASAP
Harvest romanesco, carrots - done

Also dug a few dandelions out of the grass paths at the allotment.

No gardening tomorrow.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs (frozen at the moment)
Put shelves together and take to allotment
Cut down finished indoor tomato plant
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest carrot

[muck lover]

Last week I planted some Babington leeks in little pots in polytunnel. I want to grow perennial veg to help free up time for other seed grown veg. Anyway they were expensive as they were only tiny little bulbils no bigger than a pea. I wondered if I had been had. I put all 12 into little individual pots, uncertain which way up to plant. I have just checked and amazingly they are growing wee roots. A couple of colonies of these would give me leeks in spring and early summer. Whats not to like?

Otherwise I am mulching polytunnel beds with old grass clippings and partially decomposed leaves. I am limited at the moment and for the foreseeable future by shoulder problems but even small bucketfuls of mulch add up to a nice layer in polytunnel. I am trying to get some vitality into the soil in polytunnel. Ill worry about the slugs when the time comes.