[Ashurstman]

Didn't do much as spent the day looking for organic "cure" for slugs or even a non-toxic to pets "cure" for the home garden. Didn't find one so any ideas - beyond the slug traps which we have! Still found a little globe artichoke for 50p and a dozen swede seedlings for 50p so not all bad!

[Beetroot queen]

Weeded weeded weeded but my day has been tainted by the failiure of my strawberry jam. 

Hubby is going up shortly to carry on on dads seen as he seems to have retired from plot work 

[whitehifi]

Hello first time posting to this thread.

As the weeds have been allowed to get out of control I went to cut them back, and pull what I could in areas where I have stuff planted. Also planted more peas, beans and corn. I decided as it was a nice day to go shirtless, not such a good idea as I'm back home now and my back looks like a cooked Lobster . Still worth it as I only have one more week/weekend left before I'm off to Ontario to visit family/holiday. Not looking forward to seeing the weeds when I get back at the end of July.

[jim1972]

Planted out 9 outdoor cucumbers and like everyone else weeded

[surbie100]

Set up comfrey press, weeded, watered, woodchipped a new path (20cm deep) and potted on poppies. Then realised how burned my back was getting and ran home!

[Baldy]

Picked elderflower for some alchol concoction - dug up somefirst earlies - Red Duke of York - about 50% decent size the rest a little on the small size.
By the way, is the comfrey press just a standard guttering pipe and then a lemonade bottle - have you weighted the bottle or do you just press it down when you put new leaves in? Its my next construction job one way or another..

Cheers,
Balders.

[Annen]

I only went to water the greenhouse and an hour and a half later I went home! Picked and weeded, one pumpkin bit the dust.

[mumofstig]

Pulled all the couch grass that had grown through the weed control fabric  round the jostaberry! and tidied up around the raspberries.

2 more potatoes have gone down with blackleg, I'll have to dig them up tomorrow - cos my fork was at home 

[karen.linda]

Today was very warm and sunny here.  Everything looks as if its growing well - though the swede has had a few leaves attacked (eaten - birds?)   We took the netting off the Hispi, Savoy, Cauli, purple sprouting, and Brussels and did a marathon weed. (then replaced the netting - not sure when it can come off ??)  Then had a much quicker ho round the onions  (white, giant, shallots, spring ) which are swelling fine and leeks, beets, carrots and parsnip are doing great too.  The runner beans have reached mid way to the top and there are some flowers.  The four courgettes have flowers showing too.  We planted a further row of Nantes carrots and another of spring onions filling up the remainder of the space as over one quarter of the site is full of potatoes....We also decided to lift one plant of the Suttons First Earlies and managed about a half a pound of small pots.  Think we will leave another week or two for the rest but we have so many to break the ground up (1st, 2nd earlies, salad and main crop)  Then we did some watering as we haven't had much rain.  We both caught the sun a bit and was glad we took up lunch (home-made bread sandwiches) and a cool drink.  Whew!   Karen and John

[surbie100]

Picked elderflower for some alchol concoction - dug up somefirst earlies - Red Duke of York - about 50% decent size the rest a little on the small size.
By the way, is the comfrey press just a standard guttering pipe and then a lemonade bottle - have you weighted the bottle or do you just press it down when you put new leaves in? Its my next construction job one way or another..

Cheers,
Balders.

Standard downpipe, sieve mesh (not necessary but I thought I'd try to filter out the gunk a bit), funnel, lenor bottle. Weighted at the top with a full water bottle on a string, which is also useful for packing the leaves down a bit.

Saw it first on Kirpi's posts last year and thought it was a great idea. The pipe is on a southfacing wall so should cook nicely.

[mjpalin]

Planned for where the new gate would go at the end of the plot and how much wood we're going to need. Moved old compost bin contents onto new pallet heaps. Watered, watered, watered (i'm a once a week thorough soaking gal unless the weather is stupidly hot) and then picked 9oz of strawberries :-)

[Flowertot]

Just popped down to the plot this evening to water everything thoroughly.  It has been very dry here lately and today was hot  I could almost hear the pumpkin plants growing along the ground...also really excited as my cutting patch is starting to flower  and the potato plants are so huge I think this is the week for my first furtle.

[Ema]

Watered and watered
Dug up my row of Pentland Javelin as the foliage was starting to die
Ate strawberries
Played out sweet potato slips, can't be bothered with them at home they were just being attacked by aphids

[Beetroot queen]

Hubby managed to be home at 8.30 which is rare  :ohmy:After falling on tge black plastic and hurting his knee. He already has a dodgy knee but now its really sore, so out came the broad bean bag to ice it.

Hes still struggling this morning. He did do a four foot square patch of digging before he fell

[snowdrops]

I trip to take some compostable waste & added to bin,came home to sort out the greenhouse out But didn't get that far as I broke my toe

Oh no!  You'll have to put that on the ailments thread!  What did you do?

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=107160.msg1203043#msg1203043

Rather a d*mn nuiscence really as I was so far behind any way. Never mind getting better now.