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Barrowed some council compost and harvested some beetroot yesterday.    ;D ;D ;D

Was going to get some compost, but obviously it went to Cornykev,  >:( >: (ours is coming next week.  >:( >:( >:( but we did get a Council small skip for our rubbish.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

We had our skip, cage thing on wheels 6 weeks ago, I was away so one of the boys put all my toot on it.    ;D ;D ;D

sourced a couple of water butts for the wife's new studio/shed. ( it might rain soon) :D

 :D picked loads of Kale, tomatoes, mushrooms, runner beans,raspberries,courgettes,

dug a bed over and planted broad beans, weeded,

was given loads of packets of flower seeds and some strawberry runners ;D ;D/ shades x

disnt go to plot today. did my seed order to kings,,,,,sprouts  f1 wellington, broad beans,,,dreadnaught,,,,early nantes,,,swede,,,marian   the rest will come from lidl,,,,only growing what i like to eat

jimtheworzel.

pricked out the "Tinkerbell" planted out Campanula, hacked and slayed... planted out onion sets, picked carrots, cabbage, grapes, melon, celery...  :)

Yesterday I barrowed more council compost.
Cleared the dead brassica leaves and pulled up a few manky plants.
Weeded around Raspberrys
Harvested:  Carrots, beetroots and took home some stored spuds.
Turned over pile of manure I didn't use this year.
Took home compost to lottie and put it in the daleks.
;D ;D ;D

Tidied and weeded the front borders and planted bulbs.  As the light was going I just soaked the ground and hope the local cats don't treat the borders as their newly built loo before I put the mahonia cuttings over the soil  ::)

Ninny

Just gazed longingly at the garden and thought about the plot. Hatching some lurgy here and got no energy. :(

Tied the new shoots of the thornless blackeberry in now that the chrysanths are up. Put them too near this year. Tone went to the dump with 20 bags of rubbish. planted some bulbs and sweet william under the remaining 2 fruit trees. Came home and planted my chitted sweet peas in their pots. All the broad beans are up and ready to go into the ground next week. Sowed them at home to stop the mice gettin em.

Cleared and composted the sweetcorn leaves and cobs.
Snipped the bottoms of the runnerbean stalks.
Watered.
;D ;D ;D

Had a really good day after being back from working away, planted two gossegogs  and  a redberrie also three rhubarb plants, picked the best sweetcorn today which was 'F1 Conqueror' from Thompson and Morgans really good big cobs but a late variety, :)

Planted out the broad beans that I had grown in pots( to save the mice eating them).Put the grease bands on the apple trees. Tones going to do it next year. I hate sticky hands and I coudn't get rid of the stuff. Picked a big bunch of chrysanths for me Mom. She is 87 tomorrow.

Shirley Wish Mum a Happy Birthday tomorrow from me. I remember that lovely photo of her enjoying a visit to your allotment. How is she? (sorry to go off thread)

Picked the last of the Gardeners delight, had a bit of a tidy up and have sown some of Shirl's sweet peas in John Innis. Like Emaggie still suffering from the remains of the dreaded lurgy.

cleared the last of the tomatoes from the greenhouse. :(

Cultivated some new ground and transplanted some Strawberry runners in it.
Cleared brassica leaves under the plants.
Dug and filled 5 squash pits for next year.
Harvested 1 red cabbage.
Watered.
;D ;D ;D

Corny,
             Did you ever get a good crop of  Sweetcorn?, I've just started to pull my F1 Conqueror(Thompson&Morgan) best Sweetcorn I have ever had big full juicy cobs, it might be late in the year but worth waiting for,  :)

Gave up on my sweetcorn and pulled them up today- had a total of five cobs.Mind you, when I dug over the patch after pulling them up it was so dry, maybe that was the reason (as well as late planting). On the positive side, still picking raspberries and dug up a huge parsnip. Just wish the weeds and grass would stop growing!