[Aled]

Watered and thinned last night. All my potatoes are through the soil.
Cheers
Aled

[normans mum]

Painted the shed which is massive (about 15' by 12') and it took me all day. Strimmed the grass and put the toms to bed in the big greenhouse. Having a day off today, as I have painters wrist....

[robinahood]

Planted a Hinomaki gooseberry. Took quite a while as when I started to dig the hole I found some brick foundations to hoik out.
Other half made me a Munty frame, learned about this on this site -my beans will be in shortly.
Hoeing, watering - we had a shower or two, very restful sitting in the shed listening to the rain -but its still very dry.
Tree bees are nesting in the bird box on the shed.

[greenjay]

thinned and transplanted beetroot, great soil conditions after the rain.

[New shoot]

This was yesterday, but I was too tired to even type about it last night   

Anyway, finished digging over the large area I have fenced with posts ad netting.  This is my bean, squash and sweetcorn bit and the netting fence is to keep the muntjac out.

The later spuds are all up, but spotted a few bits of bindweed showing.  Dug them out while the spuds are small enough to work round.  This area has old soft fruit in it which got invade by bindweed from the next door plot.  I dug it over twice before planting and now it has had another good weed.   I did the same tactics where my earlies are and I can't see any bindweed reappearing.  Victory will be mine 

[chillimummy]

Went with OH to plot to test out new rotovator 
Dug out odd weed then rotovated large soil area on new half plot. Raked it level and looks great. Going to use it for squash and pumpkins and anything that run out of space for. Rest of that plot now is fruit bushes. Weeds still under plum tree and fruit bushes are bit wild.
Rotovated area of my original half plot for beans and peas to sow tomorrow.
No time for the rest so OH will do that next weekend.
Back tomorrow to weed odd areas of grassy lumps and dig up last years red cabbages.
Plot looking bit bare but better than a month ago.      

[New shoot]

Today's escapades - planted up a netted cage with perpetual spinach and erbette.  Also planted out modules of spring onions and Nipper leeks.

Came home and shunted some more stuff from the greenhouse to the cold frame, then moved all the seedlings from inside the house out to the greenhouse. 

[Aled]

A bit of weeding, pleased to see my outdoor beans are starting to push through, everything else is through.
Cheers
Aled

[jambop]

Lovely day down here today so tomatoes are in!
16 x San Marzano
10 x St Pierre
5 x Cherry Roma
6 x Monte Carlo
this is followed by
6 x Aubergine
6 x sweet bell pepper
4 x Courgette
12 X Chilli D'Arbol
6 x Jalapeno
and finish of with a 10m row of Dwarf French beans.
 Great working in the garden at this time of year , not too hot at about 27C but nice sunny and warm.

[johnjsdb]

Hoe, hoe ,hoe. Just been away for a week!!!

[snowdrops]

Filled another of my new compost bin palaces with waste plants from the community hanging baskets that our garden club empties & fills, & better still trundled an awful lot of waste compost to my plot too😊. A very happy if tired bunny today

[New shoot]

I picked up some bargain onion sets on my travels the other day, so planted them.  They were in surprisingly good condition, with only a dozen per bag being squishy.  For what they cost me, its still a good deal.

My overwintering onions have been looking like they were stalled for a few weeks now.  We have been eating them as giant spring onions, but an inspection today revealed necks starting to harden up - flower stalks forming    I dug the rest up  to eat up quick and then dug that area over.

That means both plots have been fully dug, except where the overwintering Wizard beans, garlic and shallots are in.  Plus ready for the ground to soak up the rain we are promised for tonight and tomorrow 

I would do the dance of joy ... if I could still move   

[robinahood]

Put sticks in for my peas, weeded the nettle seedlings out of the raised beds wearing surgical gloves! Checked on my beans planted at the weekend, everything is very happy with this long wished for rain.

[snowdrops]

Too much dismantled the old compost bins with hubby, had a bonfire & burnt it all, dug over the area then took up the old narrow path (small slabs)next to the area & between the raspberries, then helped hubby to relay the path with larger slabs ( so I can get round easier with the wheel barrow & it Di away with a step up to the central path, that I trip on on a regular basis). Had lunch  a couple of cuppas. Now shattered & a bit bruised where hubby banged into my hand with a very heavy 2" slab 🙁 Plot looks so much better though

[Aled]

Fair play it looks like people are busy. So far so good (touch wood!) everything looks like its pushing through and growing well so a bit of weeding tonight!
Cheers
Aled