[Plot 1 Problems]

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.

[snowdrops]

Visited the Chicken girls, collected their 2 eggs, gave them a sprinkle of treats & Poo picked the hen house

[Aidy]

Started with chat for a bit then dug another section of the brassica bed and limed it.
Tad more building work.

[Aled]

Dug the veg patch over, and potted some tomato and bean seeds.
Cheers
Aled

[Vagabond]

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.

[Robster]

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.

[snowdrops]

Planted the 18 asparagus crowns that arrived yesterday, only took 3 hours 😂

[Thrutchington]

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).

[Aidy]

Quick half hour after work and popped the first earlies in.
Mains tomorrow after daughters footy match.

[Aidy]

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.

[snowdrops]

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!

[Aidy]

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

[Aled]

Composted and dug the patch over. Glad I did some rain has arrived today!
Cheers
Aled

[Urbanite]

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.

[snowdrops]

Finished spreading compost bin compost out to the brassica & potato bed. Hubby sorted out the raspberry wires & construction the new brassica hoops