What I did on the plot today 2023

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #120 on: July 10, 2023, 05:02 »
Pulled out yet another tomato with Fusarium wilt.  Sowed Kentucky Wonder pole beans.  Planted young tomato plants in large nursery pots for late summer and autumn tomatoes.  Sowed Straight Eight cucumber seeds into pots for a succession planting for late summer.  Watered everything.
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #121 on: July 11, 2023, 08:46 »
Weeded onion bed.
Sowed some more beetroot and radishes.
Keep digging

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #122 on: July 11, 2023, 09:19 »
Weeding and watering newer plantings.  2 out of 4 scorzonera have been pulled out - funny, hasn't happened with some other plantings.  Sowed a quarter row of beetroot.  Doing odd patches of green manure on the baked clay:  so fodder radish, hoping it will help break things up although did some last year and got crumbly result at first but its gone to concrete now.  trying fenugreek as well and maybe plant lettuce after

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #123 on: July 15, 2023, 18:17 »
Visited on my way back from shopping just to check that the bean support was still intact.
Seriously windy on the plot hope it calms down overnight!

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #124 on: July 16, 2023, 17:58 »
Had to stake a couple of sweetcorn cos the wind has been so bad. Weeded a bit around the potatoes

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #125 on: July 16, 2023, 19:46 »
Watered everything.  Staked okra and pepper plants.  Tied rampant Tromboncino plants to trellises.

I'm getting ready to add some vegetable scraps, coffee grounds and banana peels to the compost pile. 

Yesterday, took a load of green waste leaf and limb to the city compost facility.  The tomato haulms with Fusarium are going straight to the wheelie bin for landfill refuse.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #126 on: July 23, 2023, 23:14 »
Planted additional cucumbers to give a succession crop when the existing ones are done.

Cut and bagged the clippings from the front lawn.  Also cut the back lawn (no bagging), but did pick up and stack limbs from storm damage.

Pruned branches from bushes getting in the way of lawn mowing.

Mulched with grass clippings around peppers, okra, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers to retain soil moisture (heading into more dry weather).

Tied Tromboncino onto trellis to keep it growing where I want it to be (instead of where IT wants to be).

Between all that and walking the dog, my steps tracker recorded 10 miles today.
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #127 on: July 26, 2023, 13:11 »
Planted pumpkins yesterday.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #128 on: July 30, 2023, 19:46 »
Rained off today.  Some modules to plant out and need to plan for a bit of succession after fennel lifted.  Could do with more greens, brassicas maybe, to come in later.  Suggestions?

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #129 on: July 30, 2023, 21:12 »
I watered.  Too hot to really do much more than that.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #130 on: August 04, 2023, 18:38 »
Not much we can do in the current weather as much as I'd like to. Weeded a bit by hand

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #131 on: August 15, 2023, 10:58 »
Picked beans and courgettes as mentioned elsewhere.  Ran around with the hoe hoping the rain holds off long enough for weed roots to dry.
Comfrey still galloping so cut down half.  Filled a tub and topped with water;  rest gone on compost heap.
Summer pruning the Bramley.  Seems that plot rules have a height limit on trees and this one is certainly over so showing willing.
First compost heap matured a treat so spread some on a shady and hard  patch where chard self seeds. 

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #132 on: August 17, 2023, 14:28 »
Strimmed the insane amount of weeds that had grown. Hoed around the sweetcorn and leeks. Watered the pumpkins

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #133 on: August 20, 2023, 14:34 »
Sowed spinach, winter radish and chard. Gave everything a good weed

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2023
« Reply #134 on: August 20, 2023, 15:52 »
Put some plastic bottles on the sweetcorn to protect from vermin!
Harvested the last of my onions and put them in my plastic greenhouse to dry.
Weeded my purple sprouting broccoli and strimmed the plot.


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