What I did today 2018

[Small pumpkin]

Finished digging over bed 5 by hand because mantis isn't well ! And the mantis fixer ( Bob) isn't well either.
Put nematodes on all the beds and in big tubs.
Planted up the tunnel bed and started tidying it.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted toms into GH border potted on cucs, courgettes and lettuce.

[bario1]

Planted up another potato bag. Watering.

[Chestnut]

Weeded the allotment greenhouse, hoed about a third of the plot, and planted out a tray each of sunflowers, cornflower and nasturtiums. Next task is to find a few layers of card to cover the GH soil/clay to suppress the weeds for the summer!
Was well impressed with my home made paper pots - they are a bit of a fiddle to make, but not half as bad as trying to get seedlings out of module trays

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on my Chard, planted out Sunflowers and Nasturtiums.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

Deadheaded the last few daffodils which I keep on missing. Hopefully got them all now.

Inspected my broad beans. First signs of black fly on one of the tips, so removed and discarded and then removed the rest, washed steamed and ate them with some butter, salt and pepper.

Did the now regular job of tidying up the mess left by a few hungry blackbirds who seem to love digging up our beds and depositing piles of Strulch everywhere.

[Small pumpkin]

Cleaned out ferrets & chickens.
Watered everything
Planted out lots of sprouts, sweet corn and 1 courgette.
Put lots of rope on my bean frame and put up 3 wigwams for other peas & beans.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out mixed lettuce and some spare Telephone peas into a flower bucket.

[muck lover]

Over the last week ive sown seeds in a vast area of a pond area which ive had filled in at eye watering expense. I sowed calendula, phacaelia, borage and poppies. Im hoping this will look good and please my neighbours bees and other wildlife. So far theres a lot of couch grass sprouting......

[Small pumpkin]

Put net on the 2 pea wigwams
Planted out runner beans, pea bean, dwarf French bean, mangetout. All planted in cut up pop bottle tubs to stop the mice felling them ( it takes ages! ). Put out lots of big veggie labels, so now I know what's what ( from a distance).
Sold some frozen chillies

[Small pumpkin]

Planted up the front garden ( so the dogs have got something to dig up & the voles have something to eat! ).
Worked out where all the squash plants will be going when they're read ( put the big labels in place).

[hamamelis]

Had a day of planting stuff out; a courgette, the first tomato plant, a dahlia, a tray of broad bean plants I bought from the side of the road, and a cucumber.

Fingers crossed for the slugs staying off a few days while they get settled...

The plot's finally starting to look like something's happening. Not a lot, but something!

[Eric44]

Moved my onions, Exhibition, from 3" pots into 1 litre pots. It's my first attempt at growing very large onions. Has anyone else grown big uns and how did you do it. What did you feed them and how often? Did they spend their whole lives in progressively larger pots or were they planted out? Oh, and today I finally took delivery of my Crapualine beetroot seeds! Getting a bit late maybe but I'll sow some tomorrow.

[muck lover]

I planted out some chillis into the polytunnel.
I revamped eight window boxes by taking out the spring bulbs, refreshing the compost by adding fertilizer and some new compost, planted some busy lizzies into them. It was back breaking. I had to defrost my back using heat packs. Now i have a LOT of grape hyacinths to relocate.
I still have tomatoes to plant in polytunnel. I must get on with it as they are so big now its hard to keep them happy in small pots.
I did pull some old plants out of polytunnel to make room.
I have planted out some dwarf french beans to a raised bed under a cloche.
I have pricked out some little lettuce seedlings into modules although where on earth they are going to end up i dont know. Space is getting tight.
I still have to get supports going for the tomatoes in my small polytunnel. The ground is still moist after a fortnight which is great and so different from the large polytunnel where the plants are in large raised beds and needing a lot of watering.
I sprayed all the fruit and veg inside and outside with seaweed extract.
Ive tried to get my redcurrant bush covered up with netting. For the past two years the bush has fruited well and the birds have eaten the lot. Maybe this year. ...
i have planted a new redcurrant bush into a very large pot. I used a mixturre of mpc and a bag of topsoil. I hope it will be happy there. It wont fruit this year but eventually my theory is that when the fruit starts to ripen i can bring it under some sort of cover to avoid the birds.

[Baldy]

was given a ryobi strimmer by a plot holder - looks like the fuel pump primer has rotted but otherwise almost pristine - fingers crossed its just that. Petrol mower that is surplus to requirements at home taken t the plot - started 3rd time which isn't bad after 18 months out of use. lots of smoke for the first 10 minutes but cleared evertually. Got given some watercress for my pond. Cleared a bramble patch at home that had got through the fence from the neighbours (and been studiously ignored by me for the last year). Potted on lots of chillis and a few toms. Got a bit more sunburn.
Back to work tomorrow ;(