Seven Jobs for the week

Week 2

Complete tasks 5 & 7 from Week 1

5-Sort out the bed with the walky onions/leeks - Most seem to have died, will transfer the ones that are left to a large pot for this year. This bed will then be used for annual onions this year - 50% DONE.

7-Tidy the front garden area, plant the 2 new hydrangeas, lay weed matting, then top with bark chippings - 50% DONE



New Tasks......

1#Pot spare asparagus
2#Tidy strawberry beds
3#Bring back sandbags from the plot/replace them with breeze blocks
4#Start sieving soil that was brought up from London
5#Deep Planter1 - Cut matting, fill with veg waste, moss, soil, then cover with cardboard
6#Set-up spare Firestick for my cousin
7#Collect more leaves

All done bar 5#Deep Planter1 - This is on hold until the planter has been move to a new location

Week 3

1#Pot on perennial cuttings plus ones rooting in water / Sow Broad Beans
2#Turn compost bins
3#Move the 3 deep planters to a new location
4#Start tidying plot shed
5#Start tidying coal house
6#Finalise Courgette/Squash plans for this year
7#Sort area for the 30ltr potato tubs

Last week's 

Outdoor

1. Check for rat holes in manure bin. DONE, NO SIGN
2. Set trap if they reappear. NOT NEEDED
3. Keep teabags separate from kitchen compost, having collected a load - not quite figured out the plan here. DONE
4. Start weeding out bittercress from places I can reach without going on the soil DONE A BIT
5. Find the caterpillar that's eating the chard in gh HE'S HIDING!
6. Check on bijou peas. They don't need extra support because the tips got frosted with -6 temperatures. THEY GOT FROSTED AND GOT PRUNED
7. Think about tidying the shed I THOUGHT ABOUT IT.... AT LEAST TWICE


Indoor
1. Wrap up friend's birthday presents DONE
2. Tidy spare room bed where presents were. DONE SORT OF
3. Take P to opticians appointment- he doesn't drive HE TOOK THE BUS
4. Dye hair - horrible job, hate it but vanity wins every time. DONE
5. Sort out second pantry cupboard, I have no idea what is in there. FAILED
6. Dust & hoover DUSTED GOT FED UP
7. Go out to lunch for friend's birthday and take a lemon meringue roulade as birthday cake - do I dare put masses of candles on it??? DONE, GREAT SUCCESS

Next week's list to follow somewhen

So last week went okayish

Garden -
Prune apples & pears NO- BEEN TOO COLD
Clear old raspberry canes YES
Weed and mulch the Arch Bed YES
Finish weeding and mulching around the blackcurrants & stawberries in the potager YES
Tidy the storage in the shed so I can find the net for the garlic and use it YES
Dead head the artichokes as the birds have not been near them for a few weeks YES
Clean the bird feeders YES

Life -
Clean the windows YES
Scrub and oil the island unit YES
Tidy/clean the bootrack YES
Waterproof the seat of my ski pants - fed up with getting a wet & cold seat when I sit on a snowy chairlift NO
Load the banking app onto my phone, got a phone 12 months ago with fingerprint recognition so I could do that and haven't got around to it yet AND STILL HAVEN'T!
Wash the laundry basket - it's cloth and just needs putting through the machine YES
Dust the spare room - no visitors since before Covid so it really needs it NO

Next week's list to follow!

Mulch raspberries.  Done
weed beds. Failed
tip last years comfrey into  dalek.   Done
sow some spring onions   Done
tidy strawberries cutting of unwanted runners   Done
wash outside of GH to let light in.  Done 
dig up dandelions.  Failed

Last weeks failed jobs
Sow lettuce. Done  4 different types
dig up and freeze JA’s. Done   


Will be back with new list later. 

Garden 
From last week -
Prune Apples & pears

This week –
Weed & mulch ‘bedroom’ bed
Clean labels
Prune roses
Prune vines
Cut the path edges in the potager
Move Curry plant pot and slab
Dig up primroses for a friend

Life/House

From last week –
Waterproof the seat of my ski pants - fed up with getting a wet & cold seat when I sit on a snowy chairlift
Load the banking app onto my phone, got a phone 12 months ago with fingerprint recognition so I could do that and haven't got around to it yet
Dust the spare room - no visitors since before Covid so it really needs it

This week –
Clean main food cupboard
Clean top of fridge-freezer
Clean extractor
Mend leather gauntlets
De cobweb behind the loud speakers
Clean the glass on the wood burner
File paperwork

Garden Jobs - Complete Outstanding from Wk 1
Weed Rockery
Clear last of the tomatoes from GH1 - DONE
Cut out old raspberry canes DONE 
Weed the netted GH
Pot up cuttings DONE 

Wk 2
Pot up tomato seedlings when large enough - NOT BIG ENOUGH
Plant daffs and tulips bulbs I forgot I'd bought!
Sow Mangetout - DONE
Prune and tie in the ?thornless loganberry/tayberry - DONE
Cut leggy shoots from camellia and use as cuttings
Trim dianthus in GH4 ready to plant out when weather warms up - DONE.
Sow beetroot in GH 2 - DONE

House Jobs:- Outstanding from Wk.1
Tidy Airing cupboard - DONE
Clean Fridge. - DONE
Organise books in "library". DONE 
Wk 2
Dust picture rail and skirting in bedroom - DONE
Clean mirrors in bathroom - DONE
Sort household cleaners into sets for upstairs and downstairs - DONE
Empty shampoo sachets into a container as they're almost impossible to open with wet hands in the shower - DONE
Cook something from the Hodmedods box of beans & grains - DONE (Rolled Oats and flaked quinoa for breakfast & Red Quinoa tonight)
Try making cream cheese from homemade yogurt - NOT DONE
Arrange for central heating boiler to be serviced. - NOT DONE

Next week's list to follow!

Garden Jobs - Outstanding
Wk 1
Weed Rockery
Weed the netted GH

Wk 2
Pot up tomato seedlings when large enough - NOT BIG ENOUGH
Plant daffs and tulips bulbs I forgot I'd bought!
Cut leggy shoots from camellia and use as cuttings

WK 3
Plant Dianthus from GH if weather OK
Sow Kermit Aubergines
Take cuttings of Perennial kale
Plant 2nd Year Onions in a new patch.
Set out a few "compost bins" around garden.
Dig up more montbretia and Vinca.
Take cuttings of mint and salvias for planting out later.

House Jobs:- Outstanding from Wk.1 - COMPLETED
Wk 2
Try making cream cheese from homemade yogurt - NOT DONE & Not GOING TO BE DONE
Arrange for central heating boiler to be serviced. - NOT DONE

Wk 3
Make more Yogurt
Throw away VHS tapes
Clean windowsills
Eat something else from Hodmedods
Use or throw something very old from the back of the food cupboard
Defrost freezer
Take books to Morrisons charity stall.

That'll do!!

I just have one - be brave enough to make a tunnel to cover my anemones - I'm not brave.

The cost of the plastic is really putting me off,

How big a tunnel do you need?