What I did on the plot today 2015

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chillimummy

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #750 on: July 12, 2015, 18:49 »
Trip to tip with OH to get rid of shower door as no longer needed and pile of rubbish/old rhubarb.
OH then finished my sweetcorn protection from old bits of greenhouse perspex.
I dug over area where rubbish had been and hoed weeds between plants.
OH bought small bag of potatoes to plant (32p) as he thought they were bargain. ?Too late to plant but put them in anyway as had space. At 32p, if they don't grow then nothing lost.  ;) ;)
Picked a pile of pak choi as flowering. Khol rhabi plants and PSB to go there now when dug over.

   
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #751 on: July 12, 2015, 20:53 »
Lifted my autumn onions, great crop, won't be buying any for a long time. Edged and weeded the bed before my OH dug it over  :D. Prepared it ready to plant out my swedes tomorrow.
Weeded and edged the rest of the veg beds while OH cut the grass.
Picked some rocket, chives, parsley, radishes and my first 3 globe artichokes for tea tonight!
Only a few strawberries ready which we ate on the spot.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #752 on: July 14, 2015, 15:51 »
Just shows how very different things are down here our artichokes finished weeks back tops have all withered back and won't be seen again until the autumn!
Tomatoes are coming on great here now and have been eating some lovely caprese salads with the coeur de boeuf type and fresh cut basil yummy!

Watering the garden is a major chore just now we have had plus 30C for more than a month now and little or no rain at all some thing can cope but really it all needs a drink just now... great for drying the winter fire wood though of which I have 16cubic metres stacked !

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #753 on: July 14, 2015, 17:52 »
Picked load of pak choi and dug over area ready for next crop.
Cut some branches of blackcurrants back as they were knocking over my broad beans!
So many blackcurrants that am cutting branches bit by bit.
2nd lot in freezer now for jam maybe.
Hoed around everything.
Dug up another couple of charlotte potato plants.
Picked more strawberries, plenty left but some needed throwing as grey and furry  :(
Picked some iceberg lettuce. Sowed way to many and they are bursting out of their net so need to start eating a lot! 

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #754 on: July 14, 2015, 20:26 »
Went to the allotment early to try to miss the rain that was forecast for about lunch time.  They lied - I got wet!  Dried off a bit, then went out to pick peas - got soaked!  It had stopped raining, but, of course the peas were absolutely sodden.  Dried off again, then picked raspberries - got wet again!  Weeded potatoes - yes, that's right - soaked again!  I looked as if I was entering into a wet t-shirt competition, (with matching jeans, hair and shoes).

Picked an 'ouch' of gooseberries, and was going to pick blackcurrants, but decided to leave them for another few days. Cut more courgettes, and then noticed that there were quite a few dwarf French beans ready for picking. I swear they weren't there on Saturday. Cut a cauliflower that I didn't notice until I was about to leave, and dug up a root of Lady Cristl potatoes.




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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #755 on: July 17, 2015, 21:30 »
Dug out the broad beans and replaced them with leeks. Transplanted lettuce. Gave the plot a good water.

Cheers HH
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #756 on: July 18, 2015, 17:18 »
Spent five hours on the plot today, weeding to start with then digging up the remaining half row of Casablanca spuds before sowing Turnips, Parsnips, cabbage, broccoli and rainbow chard.
TOH started by clipping the hawthorn hedge at the bottom of the plot, then digging out the weeds in the hedge shadow and the old rainbow chard which had gone over. She then picked strawberries, broad beans and some of the dried up peas, ready for keeping for seed and the remaining peas for podding.  :)

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #757 on: July 19, 2015, 12:40 »
woke up to heavy rain this morning so delayed my trip to the plot, decided not to take the rotorvator as I thought it might be too wet- took a hoe and under the surface everything was still dry, hoes all the weeds, picked all the onions that now had no stems, all the potato foliage seems to have been nibbled - bar one rogue in the wrong place.
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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #758 on: July 19, 2015, 13:31 »
Picked a bucket of broad beans, peas, round courgettes.
Anne

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #759 on: July 19, 2015, 19:43 »
Hoed some weeds, picked some broad beans but mostly too small. Next year will start them in greenhouse earlier.
Cut some more blackcurrant branches, loads left!
Picked lots of iceberg lettuce and some spinach.
Courgettes starting to show but too small to pick.
Potatoes look lovely, covered in loads of flowers.
Everything seems to have doubled in size in last few days  :)
 

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #760 on: July 22, 2015, 20:49 »
Bit of weeding and general tending to unwind after a 12 hour day at work. Wild flowers I bought a packet of seeds of are flowering, poppies first!

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #761 on: July 28, 2015, 12:12 »
I have been trying my hardest to keep up the sucessional sowing this year so I have just been and sowed a new row of mixed lettuce, a row of radish and planted up a 2m2 area with dwarf french beans. I figured if they are too late in then they make a good green manure!! Picked 8 courgette and a bag full of mixed salad for tea  :)

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #762 on: July 29, 2015, 15:08 »
29 July 2015
Put up my anti-squirrel, corn protection, debris netting and stake "cage"....  Will it be enough?
debris netting to stop squirrels.jpg
new corn cage protection.jpg

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #763 on: July 29, 2015, 20:14 »
Picked up the onions which were supposed to be drying on the bed and put them on racks in the tunnel out of the rain. Cut off the roots and stalks from the ones already drying nicely in there.

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Re: What I did on the plot today 2015
« Reply #764 on: July 30, 2015, 10:50 »
slug pelleted everything with all this rain little blighters will be getting the munchies :unsure:
:D I garden therefore I am


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