Allotments 4 All

Today I planted potatoes on next doors allotment,the guy who owns it is having a few problems so I've agreed to plant up as much of it as I can and we'll share anything that grows.

Planted out my loo-roll parsnips. Fingers crossed for abetter crop this year. Perversely, when I was weeding between my onions I saw a parsnip growing there (where it shouldhave grown last year!). Also planted upsome toms into growbags and did some more weeding. P:icked asaparagus and rhubarb.

Forget to give them the Rhubarb Shirl that old chestnut,   :-\    ???
Potted up 6 toms in their black buckets.
Put up a cane wigwam and sowed some Cherokee beans underneath it. ( cheers Shirl ).
He'd the weeds ( again ).
Dug out old PSB plants ( the bees have had their fun ).
Harvested Rhubarb. ( may send it to consett ).
Mixed daleks and sieved one of the finished bins for the Tommie's.
Also commenced battle with the marestail.
Give a bloody good watering.
;D ;D ;D

declared war on marestail !!!!!!!!!!!


I also weeded my onion beds, Planted out runner and dwarf bean plants and seeds.

We planted out purple sprouting broccoli bordeaux and romanesco cauliflowers. ...planted out chinese cabbage plants. Started off making cloches and made more raised bed frames. Planted out more spuds in grow bags and pots. ( Anya and truffle spuds from a Veggie Box)
Transplanted  smaller chinese cabbage into bigger modules/pots Planted on various garden shrub/plant
cuttings for folk who have sent me nice seeds/tubers   ;)
Whew!!!!

Spent the morning fencing off my vege plot with chicken wire, there are 4 fox cubs in the area whose inquisitiveness is a little destructive. Now that is up i can get on with planting as i hope it will stop them from rooting out any new plants i plant.

i also dug and composted all but one of my perpetual spinach plants from last year that are finally going to seed, this was after harvesting the last lot of leaves i could have taken off of them (which tasted great when it was sautered with ginger and garlic this evening) I did leave one plant to see if i could harvest seeds for next year sowings.

later in the day i dug some more holes like before now only two more to dig, thank goodness.

Barrowed some more topsoil into the the HIppo bag planters, then sowed 60 assorted maize/sweetcorn in the big propagator, butternut and winter festival squash, Marketmore cucumbers, gherkins and courgettes in the small propagator and 72 modules of beans (12 dwarf french, 24 yin-yang and 36 borlotti).....

chrisc

 ;D ;D ;D at Kev

 :) scattered sulphate of potash around my strawberry plants, sowed small sugar pumpkin and beans seeds - thank you 1066,

watered my compost bins, and added veg waste and horse poo!/ shades x

Parents down for weekend so Dad helped me dig out 2 x conifer roots from my garden.   Plus all the concrete in the lawn that held the base for a parasol in place.

The photo below shows where one of the tree roots was, the large grey hole is where the concrete was, it's approx three foot diameter & nearly 8" deep.   I'm going to be spending a chunk of this week filling it in I think, after I've forked over the base to break it up.

CC

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A weeding and watering session also tried out my  petrol shredder on some old nightshades and it murdered them, :)

Planted out some old  large Chrysanth stools. Mainly to see what colour they are cos they all got mixed up in the mad dash last autumn. The sprays will go in during the next couple of weeks. Spent the rest of the time weeding. Last nice day tomorrow and then rain for 3 days here so will have to make the most of it

DebP did the plot assessments, I supervised a school visit then strimmed some overgrown plots...  :)

finished planting the inside tomatoes, some have flowers on already  ;D
weeded and watered, pulled two onions going to seed,used them for tea tonight  ;D

Yesterday, planted out three different courgette plants in the soil that I'd moved my composters off, hubby mowed the paths with the freecycle petrol mower (a happy chappy in charge of a mean machine  ;)), laid down paving slabs in new places on the plot for the composters - lady from Brinsbury in a recent talk said put them on slabs to avoid Mr Ratty getting in. Not worried about the worms as they can get up through the slabs, how many times have you moved a terracotta pot on the path to find a whole gaggle underneath?

Linda

PS  Not expecting to do much more, it's Christian Aid week and will be busy collecting all those envelopes delivered tonight!

planted out a few young perennial plants, watered plants and seedlings in the greenhouse. decided not to plant out the toms and curcubits as it was so windy will hopefully get them in over the weekend.

yesterday, netted my current bushes again as the soil is too dry and its soooooooooo windy ,netting and canes are blowing all over the place, weeded garlic and shallot bed/ shades x

Received the free seeds frmo the BBC, sowed the Hunter BNS in the greenhouse in a propagator and I fished a Terrex Autospade out of a skip when I was supposed to be looking at a house......

chrisc

Put up some plastic, orange builders netting and sowed some french dwarf beans and did some watering.  ;D ;D ;D

mowed the lawn, staked plants in the flower bed area. expecting heavy rain and don't want all that lush new growth flattened.