What I did today 2018

[Greenleaves]

Stayed in today awaiting the arrival of my new PT frame.....arrived 30 minutes ago....

No prizes for guessing what I am doing tomorrow

[veggiechicken]

You're doing PT?



I've weeded, mooched, stayed in the shade, eaten a strawberry, thought about planting out and changed my mind. All in all, a very busy day - I'm exhausted.

[Small pumpkin]

Lots of house work because friends were coming round.
Layed some more slabs.
Tidied up rubble and pallets that slabs were on.
Potting up more chillies.
Setting up a new hardening off bench.
Juggled lot of plants around.
Showed friends round garden.
Potted up even more chillies.

[bario1]

Planted out some kale - Cavolo Nero, Red Russian and Hungry Gap. Made a very scrappy attempt at covering with veggiemesh, I'm sure the butterflies will find a way in!

[Small pumpkin]

Watered everything.
Re stocked sales barrow.
Planted up bed 3 with pumpkin and courgette
Planted up bed 6 with squash and sunflowers.
Removed tomato armpits
Got another pot filled and watered ready for a chilli to be potted up tomorrow.
Put all the summer additions back on my pimped shed. And put up the new bunting I made from scallop shells .

[1Bee]

SP that's gorgeous!

Multiple inputs, as I've had limited PC time.

Filled the last two raised beds. Planted out leeks in the 'tall' one, and some more leeks in a spare patch of the 'out of the rotation bed'. Planted out zinnias (which I now read are a sub-tropical plant, so i'm unlikely to get the flowers I crave... ), nasturtiums, a dozen or so sunflowers and a bunch of tagetes and cosmos. Created a fleece frame for the zinnias. Sowed radishes, swede, more parsnips and salad leaves.

Planted out sweetcorn, pumpkins and courgettes and cloched them.

Thoroughly weeded the onion bed. *polishes halo*.

Watered pretty much damned everything, since it's dry as dust several inches down in some beds. Grrr.

Hoed potatoes, peas, broad beans, anywhere else that needed it.

Planted out 5 sprouts and two PSB.

All this planting out sounds like a small job, but it's SO HARD. I have to water the ground first to dig it, dig up anything that shouldn't be there, add chicken manure or BFB depending on what and where, add supports, add watering pots for courgettes etc, add cloches for sweetcorn, curcurbits etc, add supports then water, put down slug stuff and tidy up. This update represents HOURS and HOURS of hard work... !!

Weeded spinach, carrots, beetroot and radishes.

Harvested some lovely lettuce, radishes and beetroot thinnings. Delicious.

[Small pumpkin]

1Bee I manage to grow zinnias up here. So you will be fine

[1Bee]

That has made me SO HAPPY.

[Small pumpkin]

Potted up some more chillies.
Done a bit of tidying in the chillie tunnel.
Planted out peas, 52 lettuce! and companion plants.
Weeded, sorted and planted herbs.
Fed chillies and tomato.
Tidied shed
Put all the raised bed covers away. Horrible job, they never fit back in the box they came out of!
Put a fresh layer of manure in the Belfast sink. Ready for the watercress.

[burnie]

Planted out two Courgettes, not too keen on them so they will have to take their chances with the overnight temps as I'm needing greenhouse room.

[elsie-scot]

Yesterday I was avoiding housework.
Put up 3 hanging basket brackets and hung the baskets that I made up two weeks ago.
Moved garden seat to where it gets the morning sun.
Transplanted some wild foxgloves to side of house, dog likes to nibble grass so need to watch what is near her buffet zone.
Moved some plants and weeded.

Today only had time to plant out some sunflowers.

[Chris11]

More potting up and hardening off.

[Bren In Pots]

Planted out my spare Tasty green cuc that I couldn't fit in the GH and 4 varieties of courgettes.

Di nizza
Romanesco
Tondi piacenza
and Black beauty

[chillithyme]

-clear nearly a third of allotment plot filled with bindweed, this is probably my 10th dig over since Autumn,so I will cover it with membrane and plant through it

-cut brambles on allotment
-harvest broadband
-harvest my first couple of garlic bulbs
-cut off flowers from all of my shallots that have bolted

[Small pumpkin]

After work potted on a couple more chillies.
Watered lots.
Strimed the veggie garden.
Potted on Cougette seedlings.