What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs (weather permitting)

At my friends
Feed slugs to chickens - done
Fill water reservoirs in greenhouse - done
Make hotbed for melons - no (the muck trailer had been emptied)
Plant courgettes - done
Harvest cucumber - done

Plus lots of weeding.

At allotment
Collect water - done
Pull/dig horsetail - done some
Weeding - done some
Take down 2nd melon plant and plant in hotbed - done
Remove leaning spinach - done some
Harvest beetroot, spinach, carrots, peas, strawberries - done plus new potatoes and turnip

Plenty else got done too - see my allotment thread for details.

At home
Pot up brassica seedlings - no
Plant out Sungold tomatoes after wind dies down - done
Move Ferline tomatoes and cucumbers into growhouse - done and planted the cucumbers
Weeding - done a bit
Harvest lettuce, salad greens, tomatoes, baby cauliflower - done plus a few peas

Also tidied the garage and rearranged the cauliflowers and removed some finished early peas to make room for the cucumbers.

Monday jobs (I'm expecting this week to be very wet and anything I can get done is a bonus.)
Pot up brassica seedlings
Attempt to sort out hotbin, which has an ants nest in the bottom and needs emptying
Weeding and deadheading
Pull/dig horsetail
Harvest spinach, tomatoes, peas, strawberries

[burnie]

I must be way behind as I have next to nothing to harvest this early in the growing season, I have salad crops and that is it. On the plus side, growing mostly in raised beds I have very little weeding to do and that can be done sitting down. I must be at least a month away from picking any veg, everything sown has been potted on or planted, I just talk nicely to everything, sometimes have a stern word with stuff that needs to get a move on and pollinate inside the green house with my selection of paint brushes(don't want to pollinate strawberries with same brush used for chilies lol)

[Penellype]

I must be way behind as I have next to nothing to harvest this early in the growing season, I have salad crops and that is it. On the plus side, growing mostly in raised beds I have very little weeding to do and that can be done sitting down. I must be at least a month away from picking any veg, everything sown has been potted on or planted, I just talk nicely to everything, sometimes have a stern word with stuff that needs to get a move on and pollinate inside the green house with my selection of paint brushes(don't want to pollinate strawberries with same brush used for chilies lol)

Most of the things I am harvesting (spinach, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes) were sown in January or early February and are either in the house or in the hotbed. The only "normal" crops I'm eating at the moment are turnips, peas and early new potatoes, plus the odd strawberry, although a March sowing of spinach would be ready now.

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Pot up brassica seedlings - no
Attempt to sort out hotbin, which has an ants nest in the bottom and needs emptying - no
Weeding and deadheading - done some weeding
Pull/dig horsetail - done some
Harvest spinach, tomatoes, peas, strawberries - done

Tuesday jobs (likely to be wet most of the day)
Pot up brassica seedlings
Weeding
Deadheading
Harvest spinach, tomatoes, possibly baby cauliflower

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Pot up brassica seedlings - done
Weeding -no
Deadheading - done some
Harvest spinach, tomatoes, possibly baby cauliflower - done except cauliflower, plus some peas.

Wednesday jobs (weather permitting)
Collect rain water
Check everywhere for wind damage
Pull/dig horsetail if possible
Harvest spinach, tomatoes, baby cauliflower, check strawberries

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Check everywhere for wind damage - done
Pull/dig horsetail if possible - no
Harvest spinach, tomatoes, baby cauliflower, check strawberries - done except spinach (too wet)

Thursday jobs
Collect rain water
Harvest peas, baby cauliflower

[Penellype]

Thursday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Harvest peas, baby cauliflower - done

Friday jobs (weather permitting)
Collect rain water
Check for horsetail and remove if possible
Change over the 2 grow light gardens (the one downstairs has a problem with one of the lights)
Harvest spinach, peas, new potatoes

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Check for horsetail and remove if possible - done some
Change over the 2 grow light gardens (the one downstairs has a problem with one of the lights) - done
Harvest spinach, peas, new potatoes - done except potatoes, also a punnet of Balconi tomatoes and a strawberry.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs to chickens
Make hotbed for melons
Plant out leeks and celeriac
Remove tomato sideshoots and tie in
Weeding
Fill self watering trays in greenhouse

At allotment
Collect rain water
Pull/dig horsetail
Weeding especially along roadside hedge
Harvest spinach, lettuce, peas, new potatoes, check strawberries

At home
Weeding and deadheading
Sow remainder of packet of french beans in case any feel like germinating (1 in 6 of latest sowing have done so)
Check white currants
Plant out the 3 tomatoes that can't wait any longer
Mow lawns if dry (very unlikely)
Put net on fruit cage
Harvest peas, cauliflower, peppers (from plants overwintered in house)

[Gillykat]

Finally managed to convince Neil to leave the rickety raised beds standing until October/November. He'd planned to pull them down in mid-July which would have meant we'd have a load of soil to shift onto the top area which is why I've held off growing much (whilst inwardly cursing him for wasting a growing season grrrrr). Yesterday he popped up to the allotment and said it was looking so colourful it would be a shame to dig it all out....at which I seized my moment and 'casually' said that perhaps it would be best to just leave the demolition work until he has a week off when it's cooler and he actually agreed!!!

So today's jobs will be to pull out a few weeds and overgrown perennials from those beds and get some salad stuff down - radish, beetroot, lettuce etc.....whatever seeds I can basically root out from my boxes of packets and bung in basically

Also need to pot up various squash, melon and trombone seedlings into bigger pots so they can continue growing whilst I get the top area weeded and dug ready for them *whilst still inwardly cursing my dear husband for faffing around grrrrrr*

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Feed slugs to chickens - done
Make hotbed for melons - no (there are pretty flowering poppies in the way - should be over soon!)
Plant out leeks and celeriac - done
Remove tomato sideshoots and tie in - done
Weeding - done some
Fill self watering trays in greenhouse - done

Also harvested a cucumber

At allotment
Collect rain water - done
Pull/dig horsetail - done some
Weeding especially along roadside hedge - done a bit
Harvest spinach, lettuce, peas, new potatoes, check strawberries - done spinach, peas and cauliflower plus a strawberry.

Also planted out kohlrabi ad tomatoes

At home
Weeding and deadheading - no
Sow remainder of packet of french beans in case any feel like germinating (1 in 6 of latest sowing have done so) - done, plus swede
Check white currants - done, probably ready to prune
Plant out the 3 tomatoes that can't wait any longer - no
Mow lawns if dry - done
Put net on fruit cage - no
Harvest peas, cauliflower, peppers (from plants overwintered in house) - done peas plus some lettuce from indoors

Also rearranged the cauliflowers so that there is room for tomatoes, but need compost which is supposed to come from the hotbin, which is still full of ants...

Monday jobs (weather permitting, currently raining)
Collect rain water
Cut grass edges if dry enough
Attempt to do something with hotbin if feeling brave
Plant out tomatoes if possible
Weeding and deadheading
Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, check strawberries

[bikermike]

This week
Finish off putting chitted beans into loo roll.
Fill troughs with compost for greenhouse toms, outdoor toms and greenhouse sweet pots.

If i get to the plot it's slugwatch and feeding and watering

Next week, i need to mow to avoid a telling-off, i fear

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Cut grass edges if dry enough - done some
Attempt to do something with hotbin if feeling brave - done!
Plant out tomatoes if possible - no
Weeding and deadheading - no
Harvest lettuce, tomatoes, cauliflower, check strawberries - done strawberries and tomato

Tuesday jobs
Take romanesco seedlings to allotment
Continue grass edges
Weeding and deadheading
Harvest cauliflower, peas, check strawberries

[bikermike]

This week
Finish off putting chitted beans into loo roll.
Fill troughs with compost for greenhouse toms, outdoor toms and greenhouse sweet pots.

If i get to the plot it's slugwatch and feeding and watering

Next week, i need to mow to avoid a telling-off, i fear

Slugwatch did happen, but for all wrong reasons. Our plot was broken into, so I needed to check the shed. Luckily no-one had tried to break into it.

Plants are looking nice though.

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Take romanesco seedlings to allotment - done
Continue grass edges - done some
Weeding and deadheading - done some weeding
Harvest cauliflower, peas, check strawberries - done plus a few raspberries and a lettuce

Wednesday jobs (weather permitting)
Collect rain water
Pot up PSB and brokali seedlings
Weeding and deadheading
Pull/dig horsetail
Harvest cauliflower, check strawberries and raspberries

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Collect rain water - done
Pot up PSB and brokali seedlings - done brokali
Weeding and deadheading - no
Pull/dig horsetail - done some
Harvest cauliflower, check strawberries and raspberries - done, also harvested a beetroot

No gardening time today although I intend to harvest peas and cauliflower.