What I did today 2018

[bario1]

Pricked out a tray of parsley seedlings into two pots, probably about 8 in each pot. They can grow on until they're stronger, then I'll plant the pots in the polytunnel border.

[the big lebowski]

cleaned around my onions and carrotts (planted 3 more rows of carrots) ,planted 3 more rows of cut and come again lettace ,had my 1st strawberry of the year , started to train next years blackberry branches and the cherry on the cake i have started to train my grapevines 1st two branches horizontaly on my wire very very happy

[Jonny.D]

Watered everything, gave the bean frame wood a second coat and mulched an asparagus bed

[Jay-ell]

Compost fairy left 3 builders bags of hedge prunings plus 6 black bin bags of grass cuttings so I spent a bit of time shredding the prunings.

Down at the plot I had to clear an area for a new compost bin then build the bin out of a couple of arches of corrugated iron sheets and a pallet so I could empty the prunings and grass clippings.

Weeded a bit (the grass clipping mulch helps keep the weeds down on the beds. It's the paths I have to worry about the most)

Spuds are up, Tiger nuts are up, all the oca are up (including one tuber in the broad bean bed which survived over winter), Sweet Dumplings are up, another squash is also up, pumpkins are up, french beans are up (must find the twine this week), main crop onions, shallots and potato onions doing well, not sure about the garlic - leaves starting to die off too early for my liking.

Kiwi Fruit is starting to reach further into the sky - should be ready to tie off the laterals to the upper wire soon (have to let them get longer so that they don't wrap themselves around it as I want them to drape. It looks as if one of the flowers is about to open - I'm sooo excited it's like I have ants in my pants.

Found an ants nest. I sat on it by mistake.

Red currants are starting to get a flush of colour, gooseberries are turning the branches into arches, need to tie them up, black currants are so laden their branches are horizontal, Lots of tiny little apples and cherries in the square foot orchard.

The blackberry arch is covered with fruit forming flowers


Ran out of space in the comfrey bucket - getting more buckets more more black elixir.

Watered the plot and the 7 compost bins. Gave the onions a good comfrey feed.

[Small pumpkin]

Fed chilli grows, chillies & tomatoes.
Took a paint brush to the isolated chilli flowers ( each variety has its own paint brush )
Sown more seeds.
Watered everything.
Strimed the veggie garden.
Took a couple of photos with my new camera ( you may of spotted I've posted 1 or 2 photos today )

[monkeyboy]

Watered toms. Tried to bunch up the garden pearl but not successfully.

First round of nematodes deployed. Die in hell, slug scum!

[bario1]

Despite being late for work, nipped into the plot to check on watering - another hot sunny day yesterday! Everything in small pots was bone dry, I've got to get all this stuff in the ground/final pots! In desperation I planted out a tray of celery amongst my marigolds in the wildflower bed... not really expecting them to grow anyway. I need a couple of hours on the plot to get it straight, all i ever seem to get is a panicky 10 minutes here and there.

[Scoot]

Put the rest of my onion, turnip and swede seedlings in today. That's the garden and greenhouses all full. Just gotta hope they all grow well now.

[Small pumpkin]

Weeded tunnel bed
Tied up tomatoes, aubergines and sunflowers
Removed more tomato side shoots.
Spent a couple of hours checking and squishing eggs/ caterpillars on the brassicas.

[Jonny.D]

Put together my last lattice

[elsie-scot]

Planted out courgettes, labels went astray before germinating, so could have more than one type or all same. Once I know some will get rehomed.

Planted out borlotti and loads of salad leaves - mixes, turnip, beetroot, and a few lettuces.

Planted out four climbers bought cheaply earlier on but gave them some TLC before subjecting to the garden.

[bario1]

Cut down and chopped up the monster psb and kale plants, the bees have had their fill. Thinned a window box of pak choi and transplanted the thinnings to make two new rows in a raised bed.
Watered everything!
Decided I need a strimmer.

[chillithyme]

Yesterday/today
-planted out 6 tomatoe plants into 2 large growbags, cut through pots to use for ring culture
-sowed beans and greens in trays outdoors propogator
-planted out 2 cucumber plants, 2 perennial verbena
-moved out to harden off remaining tomatoe and cucumber plants
-move out to harden calendula and valerian seedling/plants
-cleaned outside pots to make rooms for tomatoe plants
-watering

[Baldy]

Spent an hour with a new plotholder who has very forthright opinions vis a vis society, allotments, rules, procedures, conformity etc.

Was somewhat intense at times for a balmy Saturday on the plot. One would have thought that with my self-proclaimed anarcho-syndicalist tendencies I would have found what he had to say very encouraging.

Have invited them to stand for election to the committee
https://youtu.be/WboggjN_G-4
https://youtu.be/hUBAx8jbYNs

[Baldy]

Potted on some chillies and toms. Weeded a couple of raised beds. Forgot to seed more lettuce - meh!