What I intend to do today/tomorrow!

[lolie]

The garden seems to have exploded over the last few days so I need to get on top of it.

Mowing is my least favourite activity in the yard, but I really need to do some before the extreme heat returns. I will try to make a start on that today.

My latest seed order arrived so I guess I'll be sowing some of those today. Most aren't for me. They're plants I'm starting for other people and I'd like to have them established by Christmas.

[Penellype]

Hoping to have a bit of time today (if the people I need to talk to would hurry up and answer my calls!), although everywhere is very, very wet.

Friday jobs
Deadheading
Weeding if possible
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest carrots, calabrese/brokali

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Deadheading - no
Weeding if possible - done a little
Plan weekend gardening - done
Harvest carrots, calabrese/brokali - done

Also attempted to remove water from flooded paths and collected some leaves.

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check peppers in greenhouse and water if necessary
Weeding
Remove finished beans

At allotment
Collect leaves
Attempt to dig up some rhubarb to force (if soil not too soggy)
Harvest carrots, check romanesco

At home
Scoop up more water off flooded paths
Deadheading
Weeding
Check calabrese and kale

[Can the Man]

Need to get the turf and logs in for the coming week
Childminding my 8 year old grandson so we are going to the rugby this afternoon, it’s the first round of the Heineken Cup and my team Leinster Rugby are hosting Benneton Rugby at home in the RDS. My grandson is staying overnight with me so I have to bring him to rugby training on Sunday morning. No garden work planned

[Penellype]

Weekend jobs

At my friend's
Check peppers in greenhouse and water if necessary - done, and harvested a few
Weeding - no
Remove finished beans - no

At allotment
Collect leaves - no
Attempt to dig up some rhubarb to force (if soil not too soggy) - no chance
Harvest carrots, check romanesco - done

At home
Scoop up more water off flooded paths - done
Deadheading - no
Weeding - no
Check calabrese and kale - done

Very difficult weekend with saturated ground, wet foliage and intermittent rain, so almost nothing got done.

Monday jobs
Deadheading (if ground is dry enough to walk on)
Weeding (ditto)
Protect begonias from frost tonight
Pot up lettuce seedlings

[Penellype]

Monday jobs
Deadheading (if ground is dry enough to walk on) - no
Weeding (ditto) - done a bit
Protect begonias from frost tonight - done
Pot up lettuce seedlings - no

Also collected some leaves and harvested carrots and romanesco.

Tuesday jobs
Frozen solid here this morning so any gardening will depend on whether it defrosts.
Pot up lettuces
Deadheading
Cut down dahlia and dig up tubers
Collect more leaves.

[Penellype]

Tuesday jobs
Pot up lettuces - done
Deadheading - no
Cut down dahlia and dig up tubers - no
Collect more leaves - no

Far too cold to do anything constructive, although I did manage to harvest a large carrot and some baby fennel.

Wednesday jobs
Deadheading if ground fit to walk on
Collect leaves
Scrape up slime from near garage door before it gets wet again and grows more

[Penellype]

Wednesday jobs
Deadheading if ground fit to walk on - done some
Collect leaves - done some
Scrape up slime from near garage door before it gets wet again and grows more - done

No gardening time tomorrow.

In case anyone is wondering about the lack of harvesting, I am trying desperately to create space in the freezer by eating copious quantities of previously frozen soup, cauliflower, spinach, peas and fruit as well as dealing with large numbers of rapidly ripening tomatoes (picked green)!

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Unlikely to get anything much done today as I am sitting in waiting for people.
Plan weekend gardening
Harvest carrots

[ESBkevin]

The weekend has become a bit null and void for gardening. Some idiot has volunteered me to pull a horsebox along the A14 a ways and back with a pony inside Saturday. She's a dear old friend that through injury is unable to drive anymore, I know I'm soft, thats the daylight hours taken care of.
Sunday I've an hours drive south to spend 4 hours in the studio rehearsing with a band, then back locally and meeting some friends for a charidee Jam session at a former RBL club, then home for tea.
I'll be lucky to water the house plants this weekend.

[bramble]

Plans for tomorrow.
Rake up all the wet leaves if it ever stops raining.

[greenishfing]

Regardless of how wet it is tomorrow (and the forecast is atrocious) I must visit the allotment and pick some leeks, parsnips and a swede and get some apples and potatoes out of the shed.

[Penellype]

Friday jobs
Plan weekend gardening - done
Harvest carrots - done

Weekend jobs (rain forecast)

At my friend's
Weeding if possible

At allotment
Collect leaves
Weeding
Harvest carrots, check calabrese, romanesco

At home
Deadheading if possible
Clear leaves
Harvest lettuce, check calabrese

[Can the Man]

Today I planed out some January cabbage plants I grew from seed, I also planted out some spring onions.
I sowed cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and onion seeds in the poly tunnel.

[FromYorkshiretoBucks]

Had new windows put in this week, so will be looking at the old windows today and sorting to see what can be used to build some cold frames