What I did today 2018

[bramble]

Dug up and split my garlic chives into several smaller clumps.
Rooted some more strawberry runners.
Dug out one of my gooseberry bushes...jhst Not enough space for two.
Dead headed and collected seeds from Sweet peas and dahlias.
Dug over and weeded another patch of the garden.
Watered the tomatoes and chillis.
Picked lots of ripe Tom's...teo many ripening at the same time.
Played pitch and putt for part of the day.

[Jay-ell]

Emptied out another of the old compost bins that's been sitting breaking down on a bed for two years.

Two Ikea bags of recognisable material tipped into the main bins, the rest of it was spread over the bed.

Sowed the bed with the broodballs for my oerprei.

Noticed that the carrots, parsnip and fennel that I sowed back in May have finally germinated. It's taking its time.

The seed for the Black Cumin/Earth Chestnut was ready so harvested that.

The bulbils on the Sand Leeks are ready to harvest so I've taken them and I'll sow them in pots later (once I get some compost)

Harvested some courgettes, cucumbers, spuds, sweetcorn.

[kitty12345]

Continued digging out couch grass, horsetail and bindweed. Almost ready for planting in cabbages!
Harvested mini courgettes, borlotti beans, tomatoes
Watered squash, runner beans and containers
Sorted out seed box and put seeds for sowing aside

[SalfordWhite]

Weeded two strawberry beds, moved some strawberries that had moved into the path, dug up some rogue horseradish, filled up a plastic compost bin with horse manure - intention to grow carrots in it.

[Small pumpkin]

Put lots of things through the shredder.
Cut down all the sunflowers that have finished. Shredded them as well.
Strung up first lot of onions. Pulled up the second lot and put to dry.
Some pot washing.
A general tidy up and putting stuff away.

[Two_Sheds]

- ordered lots of pretty squash from Real Seeds
- marked out paths on new plot with string
- nearly finished weeding, ahead of tomorrow’s rain
- sowed more green manures on bare patches of ground
- planted a sack of daffs

[Jay-ell]

So the compost fairy came back from his holiday and dropped off three bin bags full of grass.

Popped 8 elephant garlics into the winter allium bed and mulched the lot with fresh grass cuttings. Mulched the oerprie bed with grass cuttings as well.

Dug out a load of couch grass roots and weed membrane from half a bed. Mulched the dug bit with grass.

Added some garden waste to the compost and topped up with grass.

Picked cucumbers, raspberries, chard, courgettes.

My pumpkins haven't rotted yet - so that's good news.

[Jay-ell]

Compost fairy dropped off a bin bag full of grass yesterday.

Went down to the plot and dug over a 20' by 4' bed taking out couch grass and bind weed along with the weed proof membrane the weeds were embedded in and using as a wicking material. Kept hiding in the greenhouse when the rain got heavy.

Finally got it done. Managed to mulch half of it with a layer of manure and a layer of grass before the grass ran out.

This is going to be a mainly perennial bed, divided in to 2 foot squares with 1 perennial in each square and any space taken up with annuals (some of which will be left to go to seed).

Transplanted a patch of red welsh onions into the bed along with some offsets of the Sorrel Profusion (non-flowering sorrel) to see if they take.

The goji has flowers on it - two of them (plus a couple of extra couple of buds)


As does the hosta stuck under the hedge


Some one just tapped on the window - it was the compost fairy dropping off two more bags of grass cuttings

[Nicos]

Ate the last of our plums.
Best year yet, but still pretty poor from 5 trees.
Dug up more spuds...nice and dry underneath the surface!

[burnie]

Not a lot today, we had the heaviest rain I can remember this year, just showers but torrents, so just pottering in the greenhouse, pollinating Butternut squash and strawberries with my paintbrushes whilst humming like a bee.

[burnie]

Planted my "Electric" red onion sets today, although according to Anne Swithinbanks article planting by the moon, I should have waited until the first of October, well I'm not digging 'em up now.

[bramble]

Nothing done today.
A very late night celebrating my daughter's silver wedding.
A very late and lazy start to the day.
All will return to normal tomorrow.

[self-contained]

I've cleaned my sun room (removed stuff that shouldn't be in there, wiped down the window sills, vacuumed, mopped) then installed my grow-bag trays on the sills and moved in my aubergines, ginger, turmeric, dragon fruit and lemon grass.

I'm going to need another grow bag tray for the window sill and I could probably stick two or three on the floor if there are enough plants that would spend winter in an unheated but heavily windowed room. I know some of my plants will have to move into the house when it gets chillier, but there will be hardier things that should be fairly happy in their place.

[self-contained]

I've cut my rocket down, and hung it in my attic room to finish drying. It seemed to be dropping seed as I carried it up there, so it's hanging over a box lined with paper so that I don't lose any more

Hopefully will have a decent amount for the seed swap - I should be able to separate out all the seed in a week or two once it's fully dried.

[Chestnut]

Painted some wood which is destined to support raspberries, washed some pots, bit of harvesting in a gap between showers, pickled over 2lb cucumbers, made a couple of batches of soup for the freezer, and sowed some late/winter salads in the GH.
Forgot spring onions, so they’ll have to go back o the ‘to do’ list as I don’t fancy sowing by torchlight tonight!