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Title: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: JayG on January 01, 2019, 13:33
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Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on January 01, 2019, 15:49
Cleaned out a few salad plants in th PT that had a bit of fuzzy mould on as I hadn't ventilated much over Christmas. The mild few weeks we've had of late mean that the weeds are starting to pop up.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on January 01, 2019, 22:23
Collect the first eggs of 2019.
Chatted with the lasses a bit and then looked at the plot thinking I need to make a start!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aled on January 03, 2019, 11:32
Spread a pile of wood ash over the plot, and raked it in.
That's it for now!
Cheers
Aled
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on January 03, 2019, 16:11
Well on the 1st I took the compost able waste down to the plot & started to move the compost along a bay filling each bin up as I went, admired the rather large holes & tunnels that had appeared & hoped no furry noses popped out to say hello!! I didn’t get it all done so on the
2nd I went back again & finished digging out bin no 2 into bin no.3 also adding some of the Berkeley pile to bins 1 & 2. I was surprised at how well that had rotted down only some rather big woody bits left visible.
Cooked my lunch on my gas stove & realised that the bar stewards that broke in had taken my tin of extra teas & coffees ( they were probably very out of date so I hope they get tummy aches! Or worse lol).
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Beepee on January 03, 2019, 17:51
Today I covered my pea plants with a fleece.  Frost promised tonight.

However, having received John's newsletter today with a picture of leeks; a couple of days ago I tidied mine up (again). Does anyone else do this or am i stunting them.  I have trimed them 3-4 times a year for the last few years. Never get realy fat leeks but they do ok.

I also start them off in a 10" pot and leave them until ready to plant out - when I trim roots and tops and dib them into well watered holes.

Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: andreadon on January 03, 2019, 18:23
Mine was my first trip to the allotment since before Christmas.
Nothing's changed  :lol:
Apart from.some new weed heads in the strawberry bed!  :mad:

So I carried on digging my marked out bit, and marked out the area where I'll put my Munty Frame™
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Mr Rotavator on January 04, 2019, 13:33
Yesterday I cut the grass, pruned the vines and fruit bushes, tidied around berries and raked a bed.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Mr Rotavator on January 04, 2019, 20:24
Today I sowed Solent Wight and Red Duke garlic. I also pruned the fruit trees and put in some stakes around the beds.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on January 05, 2019, 14:06
First visit for me also since well before Christmas  ;)
Things not looking too bad. Took builders sack of bark chippings and spread over my new patio area  :D
In front of my lovely plum tree is area that I can't really grow anything on and difficult to weed too due to tree roots.
Mostly levelled it off! Spread weed fabric over it, dotted freecycle paving slabs around and started filling gaps between slabs with chippings. Need another couple of bags to finish.
Have plastic bench already and will take deck chair down in spring to sit and admire plot.
Really pleased as looks really good  :)
Topped up some of the paths with chippings also.
Few brassicas to dig up and odd patches to weed but all in all, plot looks good. 

Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Christine on January 05, 2019, 14:16
I didn't due to a cracked fibula on one leg but "the junior team" dug out the brussels which were past their best, lifted themselves some parsnips, took some apples and then with the help of one of their friends and his gardening gear lowered and shredded the rest of the hedges on plot number 2.

It's now possible to manage most of the hedges round 2 allotments with a lot more ease!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on January 05, 2019, 17:07
Quick plot check to see what jobs I need to do next week, nabbed a cabbage for tea tonight. Was going to have a celeriac too but the slugs have gone to work on them :(
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Mr Rotavator on January 05, 2019, 19:14
I got some well rotted manure from the local stable and put it over a bed. I was a little short though so another trip planned soon.

I also put some compost on the bed but I'm a little concerned as it may not be quite decomposed enough  :unsure:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on January 06, 2019, 12:59
Had a walk down yesterday, carried on digging soil in a raised bed,removing weeds & roots from it and breaking it up nice and fine. Will carry on doing that this afternoon i think. Pulled some leeks this morning.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Missey on January 06, 2019, 14:07
Dug over and add some well rotten manure ready to plant my garlic soon - was like a spring morning here & soil was lovely to turn - getting itching fingers 😂

Then moved down the plot to an area that’s not been dug in years, we removed 3 huge lavender plants in the autumn they were very woody and had seen better days but the couch roots in that area are awful so when we removed the lavenders we roughly dug it over and cleared - so repeated with another rough dig & clear today - always amazes me how many thick couch grass roots come up - think 1-2 more turn overs and I may start to win.

Missey
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Hobovore on January 06, 2019, 23:03
Some weeding and recording footage to make a you tube. Harder than it looks.

Video was completed after half a day!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Flowertot on January 07, 2019, 17:10
Really mild day so managed to dig over and weed the bed where the leeks had been, add composted manure to it and cover it with weed matting.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Offwego on January 08, 2019, 17:57
A quick 10 mins in almost darkness to add 30 kilos of coffee grounds, a welcome source of greens after all the browns Christmas cardboard 😁😁👍
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Ema on January 19, 2019, 17:13
With the better half (better digger at least) we dug over 1 of our 4 portage beds
Got rid of the weeds, found some forgotten about ocra (enough for 1 meal) gave away lots of oxeyed Daisy’s ready for manuring tomorrow!!
Cut back all the lavender
Dealt with some of the invasion of strawberry runners in the second bed.
Hoping to pick up some poop tomorrow and get these 2 beds covered.  :D
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on January 26, 2019, 15:13
Sorted the garlic in storage that was harvested in July, planned out a shed extension and priced up materials, pulled a few leeks then rain stopped play.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: New shoot on January 26, 2019, 17:37
Rain stopped play here as well, but I did got a few things done at home.

I picked up a tray of violas of 20 decent sized plugs of a pretty pastel mix for £6 a week or so ago.  They have been dotted through pots of spring bulbs and provided a nice module tray for me to re-use  :)

On the same garden centre trip, I found a couple of packs of overwintering onions for 50p each.  They were in good condition, so must have been in the stores out the back, rather than on the shop floor.  There were 35 sets in each pack, plus a couple extra.  I only chucked a couple away as they were squishy, so 70 planted in a raised bed.  I'll grow them for giant spring onions and for £1, even if they don't all work, I reckon I can't go far wrong  :D

Also checked the shed and found the garlic just starting to sprout.  Cue bringing them in for roasting and freezing in ice-cube trays.  The greenhouse also got a sort out and water.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on January 26, 2019, 18:31
In the greenhouse gave the new Chicken palace 2 coats of paint.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on January 27, 2019, 17:35
Spread out some longor shallot sets in the shed, then dug a raised bed over ready for them to be planted into, bad daylight stopped play!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Missey on January 27, 2019, 18:47
We managed to get hold of another water butt so did some repositioning, my lovely OH took two bags of rubbish to the tip that had previously been cleared out of the shed.

Also tidied up my strawberry bed- not sure it was a good thing to do yet but they were a tangle of runners and couch & I know before long there will be loads to do and I'll be pushed for time so it's a case of needs must.  It was freezing & trying to rain but we loved it over there.

Missey
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on January 27, 2019, 18:57
Again in the greenhouse gave the chicken palace another coat of paint & then I potted up the primula’s I bought in Lidl on Thursday along with1/2 dozen wallflowers I’d forgotten about,, a hellebore I’d bought maybe as a gift for Christmas but didn’t give & the small conifer & red berry plant that I’d put in my Rudolph wicker planter for Christmas.
Oh & 10 tulip bulbs that were lurking in the  shed.
Ended up with 4 pots of plants, 3 placed near the front door & 1 outside the kitchen patio doors. Came in for a hot cuppa & a good warm as boy was it chilly
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on January 27, 2019, 19:03
Didn't get to the plot today, but scrubbed off the ink off all of last years plant labels. Three years use now out of most of them.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Missey on February 03, 2019, 16:32
Started off 40 Garlic Cloves in seeds trays  :D  :D nice to get something going
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Enfield Glen on February 04, 2019, 11:07
Lovely day here yesterday so built a new raised bed for carrots, nice to be out in some sunshine.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Robster on February 07, 2019, 15:44
Sowed tomatoes (4 varieties)  Chillies (3 varieties) and Giant Prague Celeriac.  Put some compost into bags and then into the greenhouse for some first first earlies.  I'll be sowing them in a week or two.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on February 10, 2019, 17:10
An hour and a half sorting soil into a raised bed, planted longor shallot sets and pulled leeks and parsnips up.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Missey on February 10, 2019, 17:27
Getting very restless but just too wet here to do much.  So stayed on my paths turned over my edges and cleared the couch (have to say very pleased with the results now after doing it about 5 times  :D).   

Planted 3 lavenders and planted the red & blackcurrent cuttings - they'd been in a pot and had started rooting and some healthy shoots forming so fingers crossed.

Missey
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on February 10, 2019, 19:31
Just got back from a night time plot visit to drop off the trays of onion seedlings into the polytunnel. Was treated with utter contempt by the cat that was sat on my compost heap.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: goose on February 12, 2019, 15:26
spend a lovely day with Mr Goose on the plot.

harvested the last of the leeks.  strimmed the paths, weeded all of the beds and planted some garlic/onion/shallot sets and some broad beans.

ive just sown some artichokes (never grown them before), so they are tucked up in the back bedroom keeping warm. :D
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on February 12, 2019, 16:53
2 trips there today with Mr S to carry over the panels of mesh for the new Chicken run & fix it together.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Flowertot on February 14, 2019, 16:31
Some weeding (the weather is so mild, the weeds are already growing) and tidying up. Cut back the autumn raspberry canes.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: annieanne49 on February 16, 2019, 22:01
Planted my elephant garlic, normal garlic, shallots and onion sets that I should have planted in Autumn. I struggle with my breathing so took me 5 hours to dig, rake and plant but it was an achievement.  Really pleased with myself.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: lettice on February 17, 2019, 09:03
This week made a new small raised bed, to be used for turnips mostly.
Emptied out the greenhouse, cleaned it in and out with a little soap and water. It is now gleaming.
Cleaned all the greenhouse shelving and redug and mixed in some new and homemade compost to the raised beds in there ready for the tomatoes and cucumbers later this year.
Have sown some broad bean after soaking them indoors for a few days.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on February 17, 2019, 09:11
This week has been mainly working on the Chicken palace, nearly there now just the roof on the house & pen to complete, oh & a bit more painting. Also collecting a fair few wheelbarrows of wood chippings the council have dropped off(first time in the 14 years I’ve been there)
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on February 17, 2019, 09:57
Dug up the last of the parsnips yesterday and did a bit of weeding.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Missey on February 17, 2019, 20:19
Two fabulous days spent in my happy place.  Planted out my garlic; turned over the area where lavenders had been planted - couch was so thick and never ending but I'm winning.  Father in law kindly donated some concrete slabs so repoistioned the water butt and laid slabs for a standing platform in front of water butt & redcurrent bush.  Started to prune plum tree before someone lost an eye!  Dont think I've ever been this organised and tidy at this time of the year.  My year off definitely worked wonders.

Missey
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on February 18, 2019, 03:33
Yesterday, finished off the palace roof & the hen house, gave the house another coat of paint, managed to tidy up a bit. Need to give everywhere a good hoeing over & tidy up some more.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Offwego on February 24, 2019, 12:55
Emptied 3 compost bins onto area I'm going to grow my no dig main crop potatoes mixed with 4 barrowfulls of well rotted manure
Topped off bed 1 now that the 4" of seaweed has rotted now topped with 3 inches home made compost ready for no dig early potatoes and runner beans
Took down 3 old compost bins and put them on the site bonfire
A busy few hours
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Debz on February 25, 2019, 12:13
Dug in a couple bags on hen house waste, lifted the last of the potatoes and leeks.  While we were there, the children were offered a raised bed each at the entrance to our site.  We've only got a half plot so we were flattered to be considered and the children (aged 5 and 9) are planning the combination of flowers and veg they want to grow.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on February 25, 2019, 16:05
Took the first grass clippings of the year to the compost heap and then planted out the sweetpeas that had overwintered in the polytunnel.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on February 25, 2019, 16:12
Dug in a couple bags on hen house waste, lifted the last of the potatoes and leeks.  While we were there, the children were offered a raised bed each at the entrance to our site.  We've only got a half plot so we were flattered to be considered and the children (aged 5 and 9) are planning the combination of flowers and veg they want to grow.

Oh how lovely for them, they must be thrilled, are they on someone’s plot or communal ones?
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on February 25, 2019, 16:15
Went with daughter & she painted Hillfooters slurry in the chicken palace & I painted the rest of the back of the compost bin in the run, then had an impromptu picnic of cake & scones & jam with the grandchildren when they turned up & wheelbarrow races , & wee’s in buckets, great fun.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Lulu on March 03, 2019, 20:43
Went to the annual meeting and paid for my plot, then took on another 1/2 plot - what was I thinking ::) but now very excited and am thinking of buying a little polytunnel.   :nowink:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: andreadon on March 13, 2019, 17:23
I sowed potatoes  :D
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Zoejcksn on March 16, 2019, 20:59
Hello
I’m new  ;)

Two plots had one for 6 years and second one from Sep last year it’s been a massive task but slow and steady. Today’s job was removing an old netted cage from round the new plots green house.
Building some Aldi potting benches and cutting wood for some new raised beds.

All done in crazy wind while the kids bouncy around on the trampoline.

Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Hampshire Hog on March 20, 2019, 19:02
Planted out some Sturon onion sets along with broad bean seedlings.
Pulled out couch grass from my asparagus bed. Removed another plot holders compost Daley that had blown onto my plot!!

Cheers HH
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on March 21, 2019, 21:31
Pricked out the toms into their own pots, sowed a whole host of brassicas and beetroot into modules and planted my 3 pink fir apple spuds into containers. Finally the year feels like it's got going!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: wneva on March 23, 2019, 22:09
I'm back after a long silence!  I've just retired - this week - and am hoping to get to the plot a lot more than before.

Planted shallots yesterday, and garlic today.  I read that this is the latest you can plant garlic, so I bought some corms online and they're all in now. 

In clearing a patch at the end of Bed 5 for the garlic I filled a sack with the weeds and roots, which come with a lot of soil.  The sack's v heavy - mostly my topsoil clinging to the roots.  Up to now I've been tipping this into the green bin for the council to remove.  But thinking about that topsoil made me wonder about composting it instead.  Trouble is, I had no luck with composting.  I tried making a crude bin from old pallets - it all just fell apart after a year or two, and was really a rubbish heap not a compost bin. 
Should I try one of those dalek things?  I do have quite a lot of couch grass and I seem to remember that you shouldn't compost that.  Is there anything else you can't compost? 

Any advice on how to deal with weeds without just chucking them all in the council's green bin?
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Gillykat on March 23, 2019, 23:43
Today I dug out the bed for my asparagus crowns  :wacko:     It sounded an easy job but once I realised it was going to be awkward with all the grass roots I took the Plan B route......put down a huge sheet of tarpaulin and chucked the soil + zillions of roots onto that!   Dug down around 12 inches then put down some well rotted horse manure & compost and, as it was getting towards dusk, I covered it all up with a piece of weed membrane and will finish it off tomorrow or Monday morning. 

  Amazing how much soil comes out of such a relatively small hole!!!   ???   I'm really looking forward to sieving through that lot..... :wacko:   

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Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on March 24, 2019, 06:07
I'm back after a long silence!  I've just retired - this week - and am hoping to get to the plot a lot more than before.

Planted shallots yesterday, and garlic today.  I read that this is the latest you can plant garlic, so I bought some corms online and they're all in now. 

In clearing a patch at the end of Bed 5 for the garlic I filled a sack with the weeds and roots, which come with a lot of soil.  The sack's v heavy - mostly my topsoil clinging to the roots.  Up to now I've been tipping this into the green bin for the council to remove.  But thinking about that topsoil made me wonder about composting it instead.  Trouble is, I had no luck with composting.  I tried making a crude bin from old pallets - it all just fell apart after a year or two, and was really a rubbish heap not a compost bin. 
Should I try one of those dalek things?  I do have quite a lot of couch grass and I seem to remember that you shouldn't compost that.  Is there anything else you can't compost? 

Any advice on how to deal with weeds without just chucking them all in the council's green bin?

You can drown them in a bucket of water for 3/4 weeks or more if they still have life in them, dry them & then compost or burn them, stack them in black bags for 6 months or more but I’d get as much soil off them as you can first for option 1 or 2. Look on YouTube for building a compost bin from pallets, if you got that sorted & then learnt to get it all working you could incorporate your weeds in there along with some fresh manure.
Or you could buy a hot composting bin, John the site owner here has one & did a write up on using one. The key to composting weeds is getting it hot. The only weed I don’t compost is horse/mares tail, I let it dry by leaving it on the path & then burn it or bin it.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on March 24, 2019, 18:12
Spent a whole day forking the plot, adding me fertalizer to the spud bed and prepping the tommy greenhouse ready.
Getting there, spuds go in two weeks time.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Longshanks on March 27, 2019, 10:44
I took a tomato plant in pot and left in polytunnel overnight to see if it will survive overnight. I don't have much window sill space left, so need to move some on. I'm not sure how cold it gets in the pt overnight, so must buy a Max/min thermometer or leave my raspberry pi there overnight to monitor temperature.

Put in potatoes and directly sowed beetroot and carrots.

Weeding - they're back.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: New shoot on March 30, 2019, 20:11
Finished the prep for this years planting - whoop, whoop :D 

All various parts of the plot pruned, weeded, mulched and/or dug as needed, edges strimmed, big veg cages and net tunnels in place and we are ready to go.  Now I get to play with seed spuds and plants  :D  :D  :D
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Ema on March 31, 2019, 11:01
I’ve been given some bags of old hemp insulation so I’m mulching and mulching!!

Every windowsill in the house is covered in seedlings!! The peas are outside waiting for me to dig them a spot. I have far too many seedlings for available space and am digging up the lawn to make room!!

I’m also trying to plant a new hedge 25m long, no small task.

So pleased the clocks have changed and I’ll be able to do a decent stint in the garden after work!!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: wneva on March 31, 2019, 14:18
Weeding, weeding, weeds!  and what to do with them

A man on the top plot told me last week that I can just put my weeds into a plastic sack (I have zillions of old dog food sacks),  close them up so light and rain don't get in, and leave the sacks in a corner of the garden for a year or so.  He said the weds would have composted themselves after a year.

I've so far got 4 sacks down at the far end, behind the jungle in the corner behind the garage.  A lot more to fo0llow.

Is this the way to go?

So far, since retiring ten days ago, I've managed an hour or a half hour on the plot every day!  The fine weather helps.  I'm very optimistic for the year ahead!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on March 31, 2019, 19:14
a bit more prepping today, started on the brassica bed, forked through and limed.
Greenhouses all ready for coming season.
A little bit of building work done, I am installing bee friendly flower beds around the plot.
Finaly a sit down with the chooks for spell having a chat
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on March 31, 2019, 22:43
Weeding, weeding, weeds!  and what to do with them

A man on the top plot told me last week that I can just put my weeds into a plastic sack (I have zillions of old dog food sacks),  close them up so light and rain don't get in, and leave the sacks in a corner of the garden for a year or so.  He said the weds would have composted themselves after a year.

I've so far got 4 sacks down at the far end, behind the jungle in the corner behind the garage.  A lot more to fo0llow.

Is this the way to go?


Definitely the way to go! In my first year I put all the tough perinnials into black bags and let them toast in the sun. Once they were deader than dead they were chucked in the compost heap.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on March 31, 2019, 22:44
Visited the Chicken girls, collected their 2 eggs, gave them a sprinkle of treats & Poo picked the hen house
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on April 01, 2019, 20:57
Started with chat for a bit then dug another section of the brassica bed and limed it.
Tad more building work.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aled on April 02, 2019, 11:27
Dug the veg patch over, and potted some tomato and bean seeds.
Cheers
Aled
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Vagabond on April 02, 2019, 15:54
Hello, I haven't posted for ages as I was away in Spain for the winter. Anyway, I've been busy sorting out my raised beds that I'd left manured and covered for the winter. I dug out the bottom of my compost bin and raked that into the beds. I've discovered that avocado skins don't break down properly, so won't be putting any more in the compost!
Onion sets, garlic, potatoes and broad beans are in. I've sowed a few fennel and cabbage seeds into pots indoors. Debating whether to start some lettuces.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Robster on April 04, 2019, 14:32
Dug another bed of a a new patch I have.  Will be sowing parsnips and carrots in there tonight.  Lots of brassicas coming up in pots at the moment.  I'll need to be finding space for them soon.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on April 05, 2019, 21:38
Planted the 18 asparagus crowns that arrived yesterday, only took 3 hours 😂
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on April 06, 2019, 18:54
Fine weather today, so a good dig and deweed, emptied a compost bin and riddled the lot onto the top of a bed for potatoes, then Mrs T planted the first earlies and sowed some radishes, beetroot and spring onions while i weeded, dug over and tilled up my root veg bed ready for parsnip and early carrot sowing tomorrow (weather permitting).
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on April 06, 2019, 22:13
Quick half hour after work and popped the first earlies in.
Mains tomorrow after daughters footy match.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on April 14, 2019, 21:44
Spent most of today clearing and then digging then forking through the old strawberry bed as I plan to prep this bed for next year and plant Blueberry bushes.
Also made a planter for some bee friendly plants out of a pallet, the plan is to make more of these and fill with bulbs for different times of the year.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on April 15, 2019, 21:18
Took my 3 yr old granddaughter & her red wheelbarrow to the plot. Firstly we had a cup of tea & hot chocolate 😉 & biscuits. First I put the new fold up chairs & table near the shed door but I was informed it was too windy, so then I moved it round the corner but that was unacceptable, so then we sat inside the shed! After that & the washing up was done by gd, we snipped all the spent flowers off all the daffodils. She did really well & was very thorough, even remembering to hold the scissors she was using safely when moving around the plot 😊. Then we fed the chickens, counted 3 eggs into the egg box, locked up & went to Grannies for dinner!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aidy on April 15, 2019, 22:49
Busy day today.
Started off putting the tommys and chillies into their final bed now the temps here in tropics are forcast to hit the 40s  ;)
First row of beetroot transplanted along with a row of broad beans.
Pea bed prepped along with the onion bed.
planted left over new spuds into bags.
Had a chat with the lasses and gave them the last of the purple sprouting broccoli to peck at.
Sown kale and next years PSB
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aled on April 16, 2019, 11:37
Composted and dug the patch over. Glad I did some rain has arrived today!
Cheers
Aled
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Urbanite on April 16, 2019, 19:50
Last two days...finished digging and weeding the second bed on the plot next door to me (neighbours giving up :(,said i could use it :)),put in to rows of kerrs pink spuds on that side,started digging the third bed.On my side got two beds ready for the brassicas,planted out seventy odd long red florence onions next to the ailsea,in the greehouse sowed pacific giant pumpkin,sugar baby water melon,melba melon,second sowing of calabrese also sowed PSB and tree cabbage.Chop sawed some decking boards that i found dumped,to make a raised flower bed down the side of the greenhouse...harvested three lettuce and some spinach from the polytunnel.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on April 16, 2019, 22:20
Finished spreading compost bin compost out to the brassica & potato bed. Hubby sorted out the raspberry wires & construction the new brassica hoops
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Enfield Glen on April 17, 2019, 14:58
Planted out Onions grown from seed and some Cauli's. Then watered everything!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on April 17, 2019, 16:20
Took a break from the building work at home and planted out the broad beans. Feel like I'm getting a bit behind now, I feel a bank holiday epic plot session incoming!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on April 18, 2019, 18:50
Needed to get on top of seed sowing and needed to resow my tomato plants as minimal germination so no plot visit.
So sowed 5 different types of tomatoes, cucumbers, calabrese, savoy cabbage, sugar snap peas, ambassador peas, beetroot, marigolds, sunflowers and purple flower that can't remember name  ;)
Hopefully my tomatoes will catch up and everything else will germinate.
New sewings are in jacks magic rather than very woody compost used before.
Will now just use that to top up tomato pots. ;)
 
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Offwego on April 19, 2019, 22:26
Got the beds in the polytunnel ready with 6" well rotted manure, these have already had 6" seaweed , at the stage it got to 95deg inside I called it a day and worked outside
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: New shoot on April 20, 2019, 20:11
Massive planting out session, then home to move more stuff out to the cold frame, pot more stuff on and sow more seeds.

When I close my eyes, I can still see baby veg plants dancing in front of them  :wacko:  :lol:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aled on April 25, 2019, 15:55
Composted and dug the patch over, then rotovated. Getting there!
Cheers
Aled
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Martin70 on May 01, 2019, 10:06
Cleared out the Greenhouse last week so today is the day to start planting the tomato plants in there.

Gonna be a busy long weekend too am quite behind this year.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 02, 2019, 16:55
Arrived at the plot to find that some **** has taken my garlic. No idea why, they were nowhere near harvestable and nothing else has been taken or damaged. No one else's plot has been touched either.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on May 02, 2019, 21:12
Oh dear P1P I take it you think it’s a human that’s responsible? If so that’s worse than losing them to disease or creatures!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 03, 2019, 08:18
Oh dear P1P I take it you think it’s a human that’s responsible? If so that’s worse than losing them to disease or creatures!

Definitely human, they were pulled neatly out of the ground, bar one scrawny one and one that snapped at the stalk.  :mad:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Offwego on May 08, 2019, 20:30
Installed my irrigation system in the polytunnel now all ready for the planting in about 1.5 weeks time 👍
Squashed the first vine webil of the year😤
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: andreadon on May 10, 2019, 19:47
I boiled!
After a couple of days of rain (yeay!), it was really warm today.

I've finished digging all the areas i'd planned to dig!
There's still.loads to dig, but this is ny achievement  :lol:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Hampshire Hog on May 10, 2019, 21:15
Weeded all the beds and planted out a few lettuce and kale.
Good to have some rain ground was very dry before current downpour.
Cheers HH
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Offwego on May 11, 2019, 21:29
Put up the fruit cage over the currents and gooseberries
Transplanted 40 leeks
Planted tomatoes, cucumber , and peppers into the polytunnel
👍😴
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on May 12, 2019, 22:25
Dug over other half of my pumpkin bed ready for planting.
OH came with me and burnt all of my twigs and bits of wood in the incinerator.
Now the bed that they were all piled on is ready for rotovation next weekend.
My brassicas and peas and beans will go there, sugar snap peas are getting too tall for pots.
Weeded onions and garlic and planted my desiree potatoes so all my potatoes in now.
Earthed up my other 2 rows of potatoes.
Ordered 25 marshmello strawberries on line.
Picked up another builders sack of rabbit manure.     
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 12, 2019, 23:57
Found an hour to get to the plot today in the bright, warm sunshine and planted out my salad plugs into their bed.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Martin70 on May 13, 2019, 12:45
Tested my irregation system in the greenhouse and it's all working thankfully will just need to tighten it up when I get more time later in the week.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 13, 2019, 16:14
Planted out the toms, chillies and aubergines into the beds in the polytunnel. Starting to catch up with all the stuff I couldn't do in April!
Realised I made a massive error using chicken manure pellets in the tunnel, it's going to stink in there for the next few days!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on May 15, 2019, 20:26
Weeding, infilling gaps between parsnip and carrot seedlings, second succession sowing of purple podded peas, sowed first batch of dwarf French beans and some coriander in pots under cover.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 15, 2019, 20:50
Planted out the leeks and sowed Melon, Sunflower and Dosakai seeds.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on May 15, 2019, 21:31
Hubby & I turned compost bin 5 in to a hotbin with luck. We used some salvaged phenolic foam to line the 2 sides & the back then a lid. I then filled it up. It was at 25c as we left. Hubby watered lots & I sorted the chickens.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on May 19, 2019, 21:30
Lots of weeds removed this weekend, topped up compost bins with grass and corrugated cardboard, sown beetroot, spring onions, swede seeds and some celery seeds i found in the shed (see what happens, not planning a celery harvest). Put pea seeds into pots of compost to get them going.  ;)
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on May 19, 2019, 21:56
Chicken duties as is the norm, planted out beetroot -red & yellow,spring onions & spinach. Weeded in the fruit cage.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: blackberryjam on May 20, 2019, 19:46
Just popped down to water ,  the Tom's and cues in the greenhouse,  while I was there i noticed my potato plants are going yellow in the centre never seen this before.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on May 20, 2019, 23:02
Two visits today and very productive. :)
First visit planted cabbage and cauliflower and covered with net tunnels.
Planted sugar snap peas around wigwam, more to plant next time.
Second visit weeded strawberry area again, so much couch grass and marestail  ;)
Raked area level and covered with rabbit manure then planted my marshmello strawberries.
Emptied my builders sack of rabbit manure onto pumpkin bed ready for planting.
Weeded onion bed.
   
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: JayG on May 21, 2019, 16:16
Filled up tubs and planters in GH with compost ready for toms and cukes, untangled micro-irrigation system and laid out ready for holiday next month - (2nd year, hope it still works reliably.  :unsure:)

Runner and French beans, courgettes, squashes, sweetcorn and outdoor cukes moved from kitchen to cold frame to start hardening off (hurrah!)

First gentle earthing up of spuds, moooooore weeding (if dandelions were a more useful food I'd probably just sit back and let the garden do its own thing!)
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Robster on May 23, 2019, 15:18
No frost on the horizon, past my last frost date and weather warm and settled for the forseeable. So a lot of my tenders are out.  I'm going big on outdoor tomatoes this year.  Courgettes, cucumbers all out.  Issue is keeping everything watered sufficiently at the moment
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 23, 2019, 16:00
Planted out the sweetcorn and gave the bed a grass clipping mulch just in case we have another dry summer.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on May 23, 2019, 21:56
Managed a few hours today in the sunshine.  :)
Dug over and weeded the other half of my potato bed ready for rotovation. This
will be for sowing beetroot, pak choi and turnips.
Planted the rest of my sugar snap peas around 2 more wigwams.
Spread rabbit manure around them.
Planted more strawberries and spread rabbit manure around them.
Weeded around collapsing compost bins. Pulled up nettles and started digging up weeds and cleared some of the rubbish, broken pallet and old weed fabric, covered pile of weeds with black plastic.
Weeded onions.     
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: goose on May 25, 2019, 18:12
strimmed, weeded, watered.

planted out 28 sweetcorn plants that were outgrowing their root trainers, 5 courgette, 3 pumpkin and 2 squash, lots of baby leeks.

dug out my onions/shallots that had been infected by leaf miner? all curly leaved and little bugs in the bulbs :(
 a lovely day here though to be outside on the plot :D
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Martin70 on May 26, 2019, 12:27
Need to stake my tomatoes and do the sideshoots but it can wait another day - too wet out there.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: blackberryjam on May 26, 2019, 15:42
Just a quick visit to my plot , to drop of a new watering can , i did notice we have a lot of aphids around this year especially black fly,  my blackcurrant  as been attact not attact the redcurrant yet ,ther even on the Rubarb I did notice a few ladybugs around thank goodness , so glad I bought a couple of bug hotels this year.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 26, 2019, 23:45
A ton of much needed weeding and then planted out various cucabits. Next up the beans!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on May 27, 2019, 10:32
Some groundwork to level an area to site a potting shed, then i got my first group of leeks transplanted to their growing bed. Lots of tidying up.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on May 27, 2019, 16:06
So far today,in between rain showers,hubby & I have renetted the top of the fruit cage, funny it only just fitted to start with! I’d taken it home to wash before sewing the 2 pieces together. When we first did it 3 years ago I just did it with some nylon string but it had come adrift but now I’ve made a proper job of it I hope as long as my thread doesn’t rot in the sunlight. Also repegged down the side edges of the netting, just a large hole to repair now(don’t know what happened to that!)
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 27, 2019, 17:36
Planted out all the beans today. Only have the winter brassicas and sunflowers to plant outside now, melons and dosakai in the tunnel still to do as well.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: greenjay on June 16, 2019, 20:00
really getting behind.
weather rubbish again today.
ground wet so thinned and transplanted little seedlings.
still about 1/6 th of the plot to plant.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on June 16, 2019, 20:21
Picked lots of strawberries & had to discard rather a lot as they were either mouldy, slug pecked or squishy with all this rain we’ve had, & the girls provided us with 3 eggs. Pulled up the rusty garlic & put it to dry in the shed
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on June 17, 2019, 11:50
Managed to pop to plot between showers  ;)
Weeded onions and general tidy up.
Got more calabrese to plant, beetroot and savoy cabbage too.
Just need some dry weather to get to plot  :lol:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Allan-25J on June 19, 2019, 22:26
Planted 60 leeks, 40 dwarf beans [yin yang]
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: ches on July 01, 2019, 09:19
This weekend I made a planter from an old pallet to cover and unsightly gap under our shed. I planted this with some Box from B&Q.

Also made a compost bin with some old pallets but I'm not too happy with it so this will be ccoming down this evening and re-purposed to make one or two raised beds.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: archibtbm on July 02, 2019, 09:41
Early morning watering of beds and greenhouse.  Measured out the irrigation pipe for the outdoor tomatoes, planning to complete the job this afternoon after work.  Our site inspection is sometime in July, no date given so I better start weeding later.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on July 02, 2019, 11:40
Yesterday i planted out 4 x Cavelo Di Nero Tuscan kale & 4 x Savoy cabbages, that really is the brassica tunnel full now & picked 7 1/2lbs of strawberries
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on July 02, 2019, 16:00
Weeding, weeding and more weeding.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Vagabond on July 02, 2019, 20:25
Hi, I returned home on Sunday night after a month away and went to look at my raised beds yesterday with a certain amount of trepidation.
A few of my onions and a couple of purple sprouting broccoli plants had bolted; my broad beans were aphid infested and the fennel looks a bit scrawny. Other than that, the peas, kale, red cabbage, potatoes and french beans are looking pretty good despite my neglect.
I found an ants nest in my compost and had a minor panic. However, as far as I can see, they've done a good job of breaking down what's in there. I added a bucket of water to the heap today as I don't suppose I should let them live in there indefinitely!
It's nice to be back.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on July 13, 2019, 16:42
Pulled up overwintered onions, planted out 30 dwarf French bean plants and celery seedlings, plenty of weeds pulled up along the way.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on July 13, 2019, 18:31
Chopped and dropped a load of tall weeds at the far end of the plot, harvested the first pink fir apple spuds and a pitiful haul of peas.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on July 16, 2019, 20:09
Earthed up maincrop potatoes and watered.  :tongue2:
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: wneva on July 19, 2019, 08:20
Harvested the broad beans.  This leaves me with an empty patch, and I've got a bit of spare space elsewhere as well. 

So what can I plant out now that will be ready before the frosts arrive?  I've got kale, leeks, cabbages and purple sprouting already.   Any ideas?
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on July 19, 2019, 11:44
Sow some carrots & beetroot, lettuces, French beans?
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: chillimummy on July 25, 2019, 13:47
Started to dig up my overwintered onions both red and white and weeded and turned over soil at the same time.
Didn't have chance to get them all as too hot.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: MarkC on July 28, 2019, 22:07
Last week was a weeding catch up, also lifted all the red onions which were on the small side generally, as were shallots. Garlic did very well on the other hand.

Most of leeks now moved to final resting place, the rest will go when some more potatoes come out. May sow some more carrots if I can find the seed packet.....

Strawberry runners to deal with next, moved the bed this year using runners and they seem to have taken well on the whole, but as expected a pretty modest crop of berries.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on October 01, 2019, 19:44
Hi all, been a while since i posted due to lots of other things going on. Managed to catch an hour daylight after work and pulled up all the dwarf French bean plants for a bean harvest, pulled all the peas down with zero harvest as they had mildewed while i was on holiday. Put plenty into the compost bins then picked some tomatoes from the potting shed and watered the stuff inside it. I've got some carrots in tall pots as a trial and a load if chilli peppers to hopefully harvest this week. It's been very wet and the non cultivated areas between my beds are still clay so quite muddy! New gardening boots, a military style, are shaping up well though  :)
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: blackberryjam on October 01, 2019, 20:34
Had some topsoil delivered  to top up our raised beds , lucky just before the heavens opened. Don't look like I'll have much chance of getting to our plot for a few days.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on October 04, 2019, 18:58
Got a couple of hours on the plot early evening, however it had rained like mad during the day so very wet under foot. Managed to get some hedge cutting and weeding done, tipped out and sorted the maincrop potatoes and did some general tidying up. We desperately need some dry weather here!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Thrutchington on October 08, 2019, 19:18
Finished emptying a dalek compost bin, riddled the whole lot and added to a bed that i will grow overwintering onions in. Lovely dark matter and very fine when sieved up. Started turning the next compost bin over into it and adding spent pea, bean plants and the waste material from the riddling. Grabbed a couple of chillies and a plum tomato from the potting shed as the daylight swiftly bid me goodnight.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: blackberryjam on October 09, 2019, 05:59
General tidy up , top up the raised beds with soil,  picked last of tomatoes
 This year I got 1st prize for best small plot, such a surprise .
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on October 09, 2019, 09:24
General tidy up , top up the raised beds with soil,  picked last of tomatoes
 This year I got 1st prize for best small plot, such a surprise .

Well done!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: jambop on October 13, 2019, 18:09
I took advantage of a lovely sunny day (30C !!) down here and planted out my broccoli tomorrow the cabbages and cauliflowers go in. The soil is still very dry but we are going to get some rain next week and the really warm days will fall away soon  :(  still our winter is normally like a UK spring lets hope that continues!
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: snowdrops on October 13, 2019, 19:00
General tidy up , top up the raised beds with soil,  picked last of tomatoes
 This year I got 1st prize for best small plot, such a surprise .
Congratulations
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Aled on October 15, 2019, 14:21
A few carrots left in the patch and that's it!
Cheers
Aled
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: wneva on October 28, 2019, 07:46
Did some tidying up.  We have a small patch - just a quarter allotment really, that's all we can manage.  It comes to seven beds, but we still have quite a lot of stuff growing.  There's spinach, kale and cavallo nero, leeks and a few cabbages.  And some purple sprouting broccoli.  I've nearly cleared the sweetcorn - first time I've tried them, and very good they were.  After that it'll be the runners to clear.  I plan to cut the kale soon, and freeze it.  Likewise the cabbages.

How long will perpetual spinach keep going for?  And can I plant rocket now?  I've been told it can be grown all year round - can that be true?
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: New shoot on October 28, 2019, 10:57
How long will perpetual spinach keep going for?  And can I plant rocket now?  I've been told it can be grown all year round - can that be true?

Perpetual spinach gets a bit sad looking over winter, but then usually perks up for more pickings in the spring.  It eventually goes to seed, but I don't pull it up until I can no longer contain it by regularly picking the tops out.

Rocket now  - dunno :unsure: 

If you already have it growing it usually lasts under cover (i.e. cold greenhouse, polytunnel) over winter.  I'm not sure seeds or young plants will do much now tbh.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: WeavingGryphon on November 04, 2019, 13:53
Today I pruned some of the currants and prepared them for cuttings. Their all in compost.
I got told it'd be an idea to plant some of the many many many extras down by the local waterway. So during the winter when I'm out walking I'll take them down with a Ho-Mi and plant them in clusters under the trees. I can only hope that they don't get lifted by dogs wanting sticks to chew.

It was all fun and games in the wet until I my shoe didn't even nudge a box. Which caused it to split and flood my shoe and super cosy socks. Standing in the howling wind and rain I didn't mind but that was my limit. So now I'm balling socks and typing this.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: greenjay on December 31, 2019, 19:47
Been collecting cardboard from work to cover the veg plot before putting compost or fym down. thought I had loads but have barely covered the small half. Nice that the ground has dried up a bit so I can barrow compost about.(that's not going that far on the ground.) loads to be done but time.... and energy! Hey ho new year new beginnings.
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: New shoot on December 31, 2019, 20:25
I got out in the garden at home today and got quite a lot done in my raised beds,  The apple arch is pruned and the asparagus and seakale beds each side sit in were cut down, cleared and mulched with manure.  Also did the two strawberry beds and the one with the standard bay and a few other bits in.

The rest are herbs so no manure, but they got a weed and tidy up. 

That looks all neat - just the rest of the garden to go and then the plot  :wacko: 

Hey ho new year new beginnings.

Quite so  :lol:  See you on next years thread then  ;)
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: erikaz1 on December 31, 2019, 22:20
I got a couple of hours in the garden today. I cleared up the bit next to the bonfire, dug out a few more brambles, pulled up the stray wild raspberries, stripped ivy off the wall at the top of the garden and found a beautiful welsh slate fire place buried in the mess. I'm just missing one of the side pieces so I'm now on a mission to find it. Good job I've got no work at the moment!  :D
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: Grubbypaws on January 07, 2020, 14:30
When do we get What I did on the plot today 2020?
Title: Re: What I did on the plot today 2019
Post by: JayG on January 07, 2020, 14:33
Please wake up at the back of the classroom (it's at or near the top of this page!)  ;)