What I did today 2018

[Small pumpkin]

Cleaned out chickens.
Mowed and strimed everywhere.
Pollinated chillies.
Watered everything. Some of it with my unique semi self watering system



Restocked sales barrow.

Tied up all the Brussels sprouts. Ready for the storm that's supposed to be arriving tomorrow.

[Jay-ell]

Popped into the garden centre to get some twine to finish my bean supports. Got 4 sweet potatoes, Khol Rabi, Kale, Peas, Chard, 4 tomatoes, a cucumber and forgot the twine.

Popped into the supermarket on the way past and ended up with a Hardy Kiwi.

[bario1]

Went to the plot to do an essential 15 minutes of watering before work (WHEN WILL IT RAIN??), only to find some kind soul had stolen the adaptor off the end of my hose.
Managed to borrow one off another standpipe, but seriously annoying, and it made me late for work, as well as costing me fiver for a new one on Fleabay. Left the allotment feeling frustrated, all I have time for these days is watering, the whole thing's looking like a jungle.

[Greenleaves]

Went to the plot to do an essential 15 minutes of watering before work (WHEN WILL IT RAIN??), only to find some kind soul had stolen the adaptor off the end of my hose.
Managed to borrow one off another standpipe, but seriously annoying, and it made me late for work, as well as costing me fiver for a new one on Fleabay. Left the allotment feeling frustrated, all I have time for these days is watering, the whole thing's looking like a jungle.

Something that gets my goat too! I have no problem with people borrowing things as long as they put them back.

Watering cans always disappeared so I only leave the one out that I use for weedkiller now

[ESBkevin]

Only chance we'll get this week, so yesterday evening we picked 3lbs Strawberries, a cauliflower, some spinach and a lettuce as well as a good portion of broad beans.
Then planted a nursury row of brassicas (Kale,Brocolli & Calsbreese, sprouts) & dwarf french beans.
Another successional row of carrots and Beetroot alongside some peas which have just emerged, then netted the lot.
Then spent half an hour digging over the previous strawberry bed which after 4 years is again exhibiting lots of bindweed, so gentle forking is the answer now (it did get a squirt a week ago to kill it). It's a time consuming dig but little and ofton will eventually get it done. Then a new raised bed will go there. We've already bought the fencing/gravel boards for this one and stock piled the compost/manure/soil improver and woodchip to complete the project, so hopefully it will be ready to grow something this year if I get the time to dig and clean it.

[Gillykat]

Left the allotment feeling frustrated, all I have time for these days is watering, the whole thing's looking like a jungle.

Same here! Not quite as bad as last summer but everything is growing at a rate of knots....especially the nettles! I'm going to hack them back today!!! I've got today & Friday off though and later start tomorrow so hopefully I'll get something done

[Bren In Pots]

Potted on Basil, tied up toms, and relocated more Nasturtiums.

[bario1]

Decided to head back to the plot in my lunch break. Pulled up the mad flowering chard next to my sweetcorn - I think it was sucking all the moisture and nutrients out of the soil, as the corn next to it was turning distinctly yellow. Gave the corn a drink of chicken manure tea, let's see if they perk up. Also fed the onions and garlic with the same muck, after giving them a cursory weeding (i.e pulling out the BIG weeds). Started staking my floppy broad beans, but ran out of time.

[Small pumpkin]

Removed tomato side shoots.
Tied up some tomatoes.
Pollinated more chillies.
Weeded melon and cucamelon tubes.

[Jay-ell]

Ordered twine off tinternet - managed to do that without guying a kiwi (ok, they didn't have the variety I wanted)

The compost fairy has been away for the weekend in a caravan in Scotland making tea with two mad women so today was the first time he could get stuff to drop off - 3 bags of grass clippings and a bag of shreddings. Friday will be the first opportunity I have to take them down so the grass might be a tad warm by then - all the better to heat up the new pile (which was at 55 degrees on Monday )

[1Bee]

Tired things up and weighed things down. #StormHector.

[Small pumpkin]

Pollinated chilli flowers.
Picked up and binned all the torn weed fabric that was wrapped around my pumpkins. It used to be under them.

[Derbydal]

today I picked a polly tunel out of my onion bed !atb Dal.

[Ani]

Was rescuing things
Redone all supports. Added some sticks and lot of duct tape to that poor blowaway to keep it together.

[veggiechicken]

Potted up the lemon grass stalks
Took cuttings of rosemary, lavender and 3 sorts of sage
Cut some Apple mint, stripped the lower leaves and put the stalks in water to root. Made Mint sauce with the stripped leaves.
Sideshooted and tied in the tomatoes
Picked strawberries, 2 courgettes and a cucumber.
Pulled up some creeping buttercups and found self seeded chard beneath it.