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Nothing in my garden or plots today but next door neighbour is away on hols for two weeks, yup feeding Billy the Cat again! She keeps saying about the weeds in the gravel bit of her drive, so half way there with a week to go as a welcome home surprise  :)





Ninny

I think you should come and live next door to me I have some trellis fencing that needs staining !! :P

Duke

LOL - hubby's better with the paintbrush  ;) that's a "man" thing  ;D

Nins

Ninny
that is a lovely thing to do as a surprise.  How kind of you.

Today's garden job was tidying up blighted tomato foliage.  Usually such a sad task in late July or early August.  But this year we were lucky here to get blight so late.  We harvested so many outdoor tomatoes that I really can't complain.

I covered my chicken run in bark ready for the wet days so it doesnt get like a mud pit......it took 11 sacks - my back hurts a little now!!

And harvested yet more walnuts - what a great year its been for walnuts.

Ninny - what a lovely deed - you are a great neighbour x

Planted two lines of onions
Harvested carrots and runners
;D ;D ;D

Garlic went in...3 weeks earlier than normally..I'm ahead for once.. ;D

Harvested some more Cara
Took down the netting used for peas and half cleared the area of weeds.
    ;D ;D ;D

cleared the bean bed, it's the new strawberry bed so, thursday, we're putting the soil from the chicken shed on it and getting planting  ;D

Planted out some more strawberry runners, planted some red winter onions. picked several varieties of beans for drying.  Gradually taking the squashes home.  Watered the spring greens.

Lifted last of the potatoes up, harvested some maize and chopped their stems for mulch, picked loads and loads of apples and took some around neighbours too ;D (keeping up with good relations and as thank you for some favours), dug some weeds up for chickens, lifted some leeks..potato and leek soup is on menu..

Prepared the beds for onions and broad beans on our new plot and made yet another trip to the tip with more rubbish on the way home. Tony is just starting to have a little dig after his op so he's happy. I'm so glad that I like digging cos there has been so much to do.

Dug up the French beans, turned over the compost bin again.......

Picked the blighted leaves from my Xmas potatoes (inside polytunnel)!

Went to work!

Picked yet more apples ;D Having a coffee break now and then back for apple picking...shed is filling up nicely ;D..Oh Joy!..I loove apples ;D

Dug up, blanched and froze the carrots (Nantes), managed to get some to a decent size at last!

Brought a pepper and some chilli plants home tonight as I reckon tonight's forecast frost would have done for them.





Ninny

Emptied all my spuds out onto sacks in the morning Sun 8) and they are still out there in the back garden
Dug over next years spud area
Pulled up wigwam canes
Hoed weeds
Earthed up Celeriac
Hoed off runner bottoms
Put up a line of Cd's over the onions like the ones Ninny's growing  :o
Harvested Pumpkins, Butternut, Runners, Celeriac, Mint and Kale
I think that was all.       ;D ;D ;D

geez Kev - thats enough isn't it!

I dug up a row of spuds (a sack full drying out in the greenhouse - will be tomorrow now before i bag them up)
Dug over the spud ground (and weeded!)
harvested my squash
cleaned out my chickens (and ran around, trying to grab them to checkover for fleas - all fine!)
made squash soup for my lunches next week
did my ironing and cooked a roast (sorry thats not allotment related)
but am now cream crackered and relxing reading all these posts : )

cleared toms and cucumber bed and picked loads of apples. harvested squash and the giant pumpkin :)

I nearly forgot I dug up the last of my Cara yesterday.  ;D ;D ;D

My granddaughter ate dirt and carrots  :o


P1010283 by lisaparkin36, on Flickr


P1010281 by lisaparkin36, on Flickr

while we dug, weeded, and cut the pumpkins to take home.