2020 - Tell us what you did today

Had a bit of a walk around and gathered a variety of greens to add to my tea (ended up making a sort of tomato, onion and carrot stew with lentils and wilted the greens in at the end - I feel impressively veggieful when I haven't grocery shopped in three weeks). I then planted out my four very sad and neglected tomato plants and solitary cucumber. I'm not sure that any of them well do well, but I'm hoping the tomatoes will cheer up a bit now they are in bigger pots/better compost, even if I have failed to slowly pot them on or harden them up.

I also sat for a while and watched the ants dispatching the caterpillars that have destroyed my nasturtiums.

Earthed up spud bags & dalek composter that’s full of spuds. Planted a couple “what is it” . Started the elderflower champagne making process.

Weeded a flower bed and planted some bedding plants

Nipped out for flour and fresh yeast, baked some bread cobs (rolls)  After lunch weeded and erected my bean row then finally got around to planting my Scarlet emperor and Serbian beans.
That was yesterday.

Yesterday - forked out the mole/vole runs where the garlic had been and sowed carrots and the rest of the parsnip seeds.
Removed the anti-hail covers from my aubergine/tomato/chilli/pepper beds as there are no storms in the forecast. The frames are still there so the covers can go back if eeded, but the plants are getting a bit big now.
Almost finished planting up & weeding the 'hot border'.
Planted out soya beans.

Replanted self seeded Nasturtiums then sown some more cress.

Sowed some of my exciting new seeds and did some good ole manual labor at the plot (chopping back tall grass around the perimeter with a manual set of hedge clippers). Also made some (American) pancakes for breakfast.

Stella (Staffie not Mrs?) kept me up panting all night eventually went to sleep at 4.30. When Mrs B got up at 5.30 I went back to bed, had a lie in until 9.30 !! Stella seems ok today however 15 ½ so you know!
 
Not much else, varnished some stair hand rails and potted on my Taunton Deane kale cuttings which arrived today.
 
Walked down the canal into town to get a loaf.
 
Also modelled face masks that Mrs B is making for the family.

Fed chillies. Weeded the dwarf french beans. Tidying up after Bob. Got rained off, so will finish tomorrow.

Planted out some peas and the lone germinator of a type of bean that came in my magic parcel. I bemoaned the lack of sun and gave voice to my impatience at the lack of amazing, stupendous growth that I had hoped to see after the rain. Ate my words from earlier this year that I wish I did have to deal with pests, which would mean that at least I had overcome my incompetence at growing from seed - because the birds are eating every type of fruit we have this year. (The birds missed the memo that it was only things grown from seed that were part of the bargain.) Became utterly distracted and charmed upon noticing two teensy courgettes on my plant. Rambled a lot instead of working...