[digalotty]

give all greenhouse plants a drink,  never bothered wityh the plot and good job as it is now lashing down

[Junie]

Watering and weeding - must get stuff planted if I could find the soil for the weeds!

[Paul Plots]

I got out the onion hoe and nipped carefully through the shallots and onions up close to remove the smaller weeds that  I missed with the swoe the other day.

I handed weeded half of the rows of carrots and watered but hope for a down pour during the next two days.

Even the potatoes are beginning to look thirsty. 

[Dan78]

realised just how hot it was today when I went out for lunch at work! 

Popped to the allotment after work to splash some water about..

And now its raining First time in weeks!

[Half a plot man]

Got to the plot for an hour between storms! Weeded the broad bean patch and sowed a row of beetroot.

[Paul Plots]

Nothing... stayed at home and left the plot for the rain to sink in. 

(Weeded yesterday.  )

[Nige2Plots]

The rain had hardly touched the plots
 We went for it................... Cabbages are in, PSB's and Cauliflower too. To be honest they were ready to go in due to the seasons weather so far. Fingers crossed!

[totalnovice]

well i was sort of productive yesterday, picked a few raddish and a couple of spring onion, threw the hoe around a bit and tied in some raspberry canes, spread my straw around my strawberries and netted them, could not resist eating an almost ripe strawberry - big mistake! it wasn't that ripe and tasted pretty grim - oh well...
Today I have done nothing, sat in the sunshine watching everything grow after the rain overnight (WOOO HOOOO!!!  ) drank my coffee, listend to my little robin sing, and the others answering him, watched a pigeon strut around the plot like he owned it, relaxed, oh i did weed a couple of 'rows' of parsnips, although out of 5 rows about 6ft long i have manged to germinate just 7 parsnips.......

[Wombat18]

totalnovice, give your parsnips another couple of weeks, they can be notoriously slow to germinate.

Had a long but brilliant afternoon, strimmed the paths, tidied up the edges and did some weeding, thinned out all my autumn/winter brassica seedlings, got rid of a very unproductive rhubarb plant, earthed up the spuds, did a few bits of digging, watered (since we didn't get that much rain).  Sadly nobody around to help me move my shed, which I have built a lovely level base for.  A lot of the usual suspects stayed away from the plot today, I'm not sure why.

The only realy problem is that my elderly apple tree is badly affected by downy mildew yet again.  I have sprayed it with fungicide which hasn't made a lot of difference.  Think I'm going to summer prune half of it (to improve the air circulation) and winter prune the other half (so I get some fruit next year) and also prune out any badly affected shoots as I spot them.

[sachkrimbo]

earthed up potatoes for what seems like the millionth time already.  Weeded, weeded and weeded.  Looked longingly at baby lettuces but resisted picking any leaves yet.  Watered all with nettle tea.

[mumofstig]

watered the transplants and the newly sown french beans.

Hoe hoe hoed 3 beds. Tied the next lot of twine along the pea rows, and hand weeded them. Sowed 16 pumpkins/squash 

[fibilou]

weeded the fruit cage, started weeding out the legume bed and the bed where flowers for cutting will be going

[Paul Plots]

After the rain... today hoed the strawberry bed and covered with netting as they are beginning to ripen (already!). Lifted  the last 3 remaining leeks and forked through to ready for the chrysanthemums to go out. (Amazing how dry the soil is in parts despite the rain).

Hoed a lot again. 

[Jamie Butterworth]

Potted on the toms into bigger flower buckets, and then sowed some last minute dwarf toms.

Planted out the lettuce.

Watched the carrots germinate in front of my eyes after the downpour we had.

Planted a hosta.

Put some more string to support my exhibition onions.

Potted up 120 white begonia.

Cut down dead tulips and tied up the daffs.

Sowed some more last minute peas in guttering after none germinated from the earlier sowing.

Planted spring onions out.

Trimmed the hedge.

Sowed some more speedy salad, radish and rocket.

Put up runner and french bean support.

Turned the compost heap.

Earthed up spuds. (again )

A good days work

[aelf]

I weeded the roots beds, then the cabbages. Then I did some more general weeding followed by some weeding and a bit more weeding.

Did I mention that I did some weeding?