[Headgardener22]

More tomatoes

Next year I'll have to grow fewer plants, the freezer is full, chutney is made, and there's a good lot of tomatoes still on the plants to ripen. A really good crop of Pink Brandywine - absolutely delicious!

[sunshineband]

Cleared out the mini tunnel ready for winter lettuces --- could only do 10 mins at a time as I nearly melted with the heat.

 Cut a big bunch of dahlias too 

[sunshineband]

Prepared the bed for onion sets, garlic etc once the weather cools down, cleared the last of the weeds where the spring cabbage plants are being planted out (ditto)

Mr Sunny replaced the path in the mini tunnel, and built raised beds along bit side and across the back to stop the soil cascading onto the pathe when I water things.

FRom the weather forecast, I shll be a-plantin' next week 

[DigIt]

More digging on Plot 96/97, still on the case of the dock roots. At least I can see some progress, and have reached a point where it has been cleared beyond where I intending planting a gage tree (Oullins Golden Gage on order from Agroforestry Research Trust) and creating additional strawberry and asparagus beds.

Lifted a few tatties, and now have planted up the space with some overwinter spring onions and garlic.

And boy was it warm out there today! 

[Wombat18]

Pruned the (elderly, disease-ridden) apple tree back, dug up the dahlias in advance of the frost, picked a load of tomatoes most of which are splitting and only good for passata now, ate a nice handful of raspberries (managing to avoid the shield bugs which are all over them and not that nice to take a bite out of), dug in the mustard on the old spud bed, put in some forage peas donated by the nice Polish chap in the allotment next door, dug a few beds over and cleared some of the dead flowers, making sure to harvest the seeds.  Five hours of work on a simply brilliant autumn day, followed by a nice cold beer.  What a shame the nights are drawing in so fast.

[snails2go]

Built two new raised beds and discovered that, following the addition of some seaweed a few weeks back I have a compost bin half full of some rather lovely looking compost.  Will be adding the to the new beds next weekend 

[kosh42|EFG]

Cut down and harvested some blight hit second crop spuds (so much for Christmas), build and placed two bed edges (eight by sixteen) and then dug, weeded and levelled the paths between them.

Also harvested some salad, beetroot and carrots that would have been in the new path.

[flitwickone]

planted winter garlic (cleopatra)

dug some stinging nettles out 

[mumofstig]

Tidied up all the poles/canes so I could get at the shed to paint it.
Emptied and cleaned the smelly water butts. Gave the shed another coat.
Moved 4 barrows of manure....picked the dry purple bean pods - seeds for growing next year

[Springlands]

Cannot do anything - the ground is just too wet from all of the rain. One bucket has about six inches of rain water in it - just shows how bad it was here at the weekend.

[bazial]

Sorry to hear that Springlands.  Just shows how things are in different parts of the country.  I was watering for 2hrs this afternoon bone dry here, was planting Spring Cabbage and Foxgloves and could not make  a hole to plant them as the sides of the hole kept falling in .(just like Skegness beach)

[Vit]

Yesterday almost finished reframing shed, did some job around tea farm. Today will go to the new plot, hopefully will finish till soil(about 500sq m left).

[Springlands]

Yesterday almost finished reframing shed, did some job around tea farm. Today will go to the new plot, hopefully will finish till soil(about 500sq m left).

Vit - I would be interested in hearing more about the tea farm.

[Vit]

Vit - I would be interested in hearing more about the tea farm.

Feel free to ask questions. It's a small farm, giving about 30kg fresh leaves each season. That amount ended as about 6kg of green tea. Processed on the local small tea factory.

Yesterday failed to finish till soil - problems with fuel. I noticed it few times(and name of network gas station as well), when their petrol sits in the canister for a couple months, it changing quality. Let's say car(or whatever with few cylinders in engine) is ok or less sensitive, but cnainsaw, tiller, scooter. Harder to start and engine working not that smooth. So now i have to check carb and sparkplug of my lovely Honda F200.  Reason to have some stock of petrol - when you have few trimmers, tiller, chainsaw etc and using them regular, you have "to have". Another reason - to choose gas station from few, i have to drive about 15km one way.  So time to time, when i filling up van, also filling up 20l can. What i can say - i really miss quality of BP's fuels 

[flitwickone]

planted out all the strawb runners as they were getting pot pound such a lot of root for a tiny plant


when people say strawberries are hardy they are not wrong
i ripped ouyt my 5 year old bed forked it over and then used my rotavator on it,and my rotavator is a biggun and hey presto 3 weeks later all these runners started to pop up  :blink:   they are as hardy as rhubarb me thinks

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