Author Topic: What did you do in the garden today? (Read 873021 times)

antipodes · « **Reply #5120 on:** July 11, 2011, 10:34:41 »

I did a casual weed but I didn't do as much as I should! But there is a public holiday Thursday and I will try and get a couple of hours in.
I tied up the cucumbers (ooooh they have widdle baby fruits! I am so thrilled! They are the first ones I have ever grown!!!) and the tomatoes, although they still need further tying in, they are completely rampant. Gave a feed to the squashes. melons, courgettes, cukes and gave them some Bordeaux mixture, as last year I had lots of mildew, and don't want the same thing again. I actually have melons! I did coddle them, they are fleeced, weeded and fed and looks like this was a good idea, there are at least 3 or 4 tiny fruit and the vines have loads of flowers.
Only harvested a handful of beans and a few onions, but I am almost ready for the main onion harvest (there are kilos and kilos of them this year!) and some beetroot, maybe the first tomatoes, and the first courgettes will be ready this week. Thank you goodlife, they are your italian courgettes! Last in and first to give fruit!!

landimad · « **Reply #5121 on:** July 11, 2011, 11:26:14 »

Cut another cabbage, Pulled some broadies, Cleared the strawberry bed for the new season, and finally removed the peas from their bed so as to put in another crop of veggie.

Gadget · « **Reply #5122 on:** July 11, 2011, 12:50:42 »

weeded for 2 hours, still loads ???, picked the rest of the broad beans and pulled up the plants, cut back the raspberry rods, dug remaining earliers out and dug over the site, trimmed the edges, got rid of bolted lettuces, picked some runner beans. Had a cup of coffee, walked round the plot swapped some seeds, tidied up and went home. :)

manicscousers · « **Reply #5123 on:** July 11, 2011, 16:52:29 »

Too much to talk about, don't know why we bother with 'In bloom' competitions, always the same faces turn up to help :-\
worn out

cornykev · « **Reply #5124 on:** July 12, 2011, 20:59:19 »

Watered tatties
Harvested beetroot, runners, french beans and my first pea. ;D

Borlotti · « **Reply #5125 on:** July 12, 2011, 21:04:51 »

Kev, my freezer is full of peas. ;D ;D ;D

GRACELAND · « **Reply #5126 on:** July 13, 2011, 15:57:30 »

lifted spuds well a few roots ;D

goodlife · « **Reply #5127 on:** July 13, 2011, 17:45:35 »

Picked couple of buckets full of plums..half bucket of gooseberries and red currants, lifted some potatoes, cut several broccoli heads, spring onions, courgettes, mangetout peas...kitchen looks like veg shop and we've just been out for dinner... ::)
Everyhing got thoroughly watered so now it can rain.. ::)

cornykev · « **Reply #5128 on:** July 14, 2011, 20:44:39 »

Harvested Peas, Runners, Onions, Shallots and Carrots
Was given, Courgette, Beetroots, Swede and Apples
;D ;D ;D

galina · « **Reply #5129 on:** July 15, 2011, 00:22:31 »

Quote from: cornykev on July 14, 2011, 20:44:39

Harvested Peas, Runners, Onions, Shallots and Carrots
Was given, Courgette, Beetroots, Swede and Apples
;D ;D ;D

did you say apples, Kev? WOW ;D

goodlife · « **Reply #5130 on:** July 15, 2011, 00:37:03 »

Apples!...what variety..?

cornykev · « **Reply #5131 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:34:08 »

The greeny/red tpye, :D
The lady whose apples I borrowed has injured her ankle at work, so I can't ask her what type they are for a while. ??? ;D

Mr Smith · « **Reply #5132 on:** July 16, 2011, 10:16:06 »

The last couple of days I constructed a new compost bin with my Shreader fixed to the top, it's 5'x4' square and 5' high so it can hold quite a bit of garden waste, went to the lotty this morning to finish it off then the heavens opened, pub awaits, :)

Digeroo · « **Reply #5133 on:** July 16, 2011, 10:31:10 »

My Discovery apples are almost ready would expect them to be ripe in the warmth of the great metropolis. I have had a few already fried in butter OH likes them that way.

Been bailing out the waterbutts in a brief lull in the rain and giving some of the plants a good deep dowsing.

Planted out some more brassicas amongst the peas, and they will really appreciate the rain.

Poppy Mole · « **Reply #5134 on:** July 16, 2011, 10:36:21 »

Nothing - it's raining so I can have a day off!

galina · « **Reply #5135 on:** July 16, 2011, 12:00:34 »

Our Discovery apples have at least 3 weeks to a month to go. Last year they were at their best in September/early October. In July they are just green and although they are billed as a July apple, definitely not the case here. We do live in a fairly cool part of the country and fairly high up, so things are often later than elsewhere.

Today I am doing nothing so far. Just delegating - the rain is doing an admirable job watering in the endive seeds which I sowed last thing yesterday in the ground where the potatoes were.

cornykev · « **Reply #5136 on:** July 16, 2011, 13:37:46 »

Bugger all its piddling down. :'(

shirlton · « **Reply #5137 on:** July 16, 2011, 13:38:15 »

Went to rescue our 3 caulis from the rain and spent the morning shelling the broad beans we picked yesterday and blanching them all. Glad it rained really

Grandma · « **Reply #5138 on:** July 16, 2011, 14:01:25 »

Quote from: cornykev on July 16, 2011, 13:37:46

Bugger all its piddling down. :'(

Same here - lovely, desperately-needed rain - but why at the weekend???

caroline7758 · « **Reply #5139 on:** July 16, 2011, 16:32:54 »

Dug some potatoes and cut some courgettes- in the half hour when it wasn't raining!

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