What I did on the plot today - 2011

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2295 on: September 07, 2011, 14:46 »
cut off the peas leaving the roots in the ground  ;) spread some manure about checked on my pumpkins and squash (felt very proud, if not smug) still no sign of any broccoli  florets yet  :(  harvested the last of the peas,french beans,still a few more runners yet, pulled up some beetroot, dug up some not so new potatoes, loaded up my bike and wobbled home (not me my push bike under the weight of my pickings)  :D
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2296 on: September 07, 2011, 16:06 »
I think you sent all that wind to Denmark. Heavy rain yesterday and storm winds today made everything hard work. Trying to hold raspberry canes still while picking, and making sure the container didn’t blow over isn’t easy!
But took home parsnips, broccoli, carrots, beetroot, courgette, few beans, leaf beet, rosemary, thyme, red onions, ordy onions, shalllots and garlic (all those from basket behind shed)........and raspberries. Hope the wind ceases soon! (And the rain!)
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2297 on: September 08, 2011, 12:52 »
In the garden today, so cut all the herbs back, some are tied up for drying in the back porch..the house smells Greek now  ;)
Picked another few bowls of toms from the greenhouses and gave the plants another trim of the brown furry bits >:(  Picked the last 4 peppers - 3 red, 1 still green..but everythings getting Botrytis now, so I've given up the battle with the peppers....I think the last few toms will just about ripen before the tom plants give up the ghost  :)
I binned one of the courgettes which was withered, but left the other one as there are a few babies on it...they might just make it :)
Had a bit of a tidy up of mildewed leaves on the pumpkins and sweetpeas and plants blown over
and filled 3 binbags to take up to the plot later.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2298 on: September 09, 2011, 13:59 »
Not as much time as i had hoped for but still got pleanty done. Dug the last but one row of potatoes, picked most of my runner beans, picked the french beans that were ready, picked a couple of kilos of raspberries  ??? and hoed around my brassicas, collected the windfall apples, watered and fed the toms, weeded around my parsnips and foun the one last carrot - which was a whopper! woo hoo!

refixed the netting over my brussels and gave them lots of love and attention, told my PSB off, as i don't think it is performing as well as it could, cut back some of the old raspberry canes from earlier in the year and weeded around one set of raspberry canes ready for cutting back later in the year.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2299 on: September 09, 2011, 15:28 »
Just wandered up to take the kitchen peelings for the compost bin, and saw there was delivery from the stables, and it was going as fast as it was off-loading ::)
Spoke to the owner she said the horses are only grass fed at this time of year and the bedding is wood chips,  and she uses no weed killer on the fields - so it shoud be ok, but I'll test before it goes on the beds ;)

6 barrowloads later....I'm now home waiting for the bath to fill  :lol:

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2300 on: September 09, 2011, 16:40 »
Just cut the paths and trimmed the edges on both plots. Now looking neat and tidy.
Made a mental note of where to start clearing the plots and winter digging.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2301 on: September 09, 2011, 18:33 »
Picked courgettes, French beans, beetroot, last sweetcorn, few raspberries and blackberries. Tomatoes & cucumber from the greenhouse. Everything seems to be slowing down. It's been too dry this year overall

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2302 on: September 09, 2011, 18:41 »
Live in Lancs and its been windy so spent some time putting in extra guy -type ropes onto my runner bean canes which were leaning at a precarious angle.  Still lots of beans and didn't want to lose them.  Warning that there is very windy weather coming on Tuesday so strapping everything down!!

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2303 on: September 10, 2011, 11:55 »
Hoe hoe hoe! Sprayed the middles of the Romanesco as mealy bugs had started munching the middles..this is the 2nd year they've done that  :mad:

Clouds of whitefly on the winter cabbage, but couldn't sea any mealies on them.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2304 on: September 10, 2011, 15:56 »
Weeding, harvesting a carrier bag of runners (only just started cropping properly), eating raspberries as I work.  Another 6 Courgettes (I think i went a wee bit mad with these) Carrots for tea (The ones I have had tast great but not that many) Pulled the last lot of onions for drying.

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2305 on: September 10, 2011, 17:33 »
Restaked the runners that came down again - can see them being a goner tonight/tommorow so picked what i could,

Weeded 3/4 of the plot - which was hard work - havent been able to get there too much lately.

Had a chat....................

Came home and having a beer  8)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2306 on: September 10, 2011, 21:32 »
Hand weeded all the curly kale and the most recent of the khol rabi sowings.

Picked a box of raspberries, some beans, couple of courgettes for DIL, who came to see ho we were geting on.

Watched Mr Sunny dig up a crate full of pink fir apples (all from 5 tubers  :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:)

Ate our lunch in the shed as it was raining and then all went home.
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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2307 on: September 11, 2011, 14:47 »
 :) Tied the french beans back down, emptied the water in the wheelbarrow into the pond... picked courgettes and french beans, had to bring home a small pumpkin as his plant has vanished??? Then I weeded and despaired at the mess... so I came home and joined here  ;)

Baking courgette cheese and chilli scones  :D

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2308 on: September 11, 2011, 15:16 »
Nothing - far too wet and windy.  ::) ::)

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Re: What I did on the plot today - 2011
« Reply #2309 on: September 11, 2011, 18:14 »
Picked a red drumhead for dinner.  :)
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