Jobs for the coming week

This week:
Picking soft fruit: red currants, strawberries and gooseberries only.
Sow some lettuce & carrots
feeding/watering/... toms,peppers and other stuff in greenhouse.
weeding, weeding and weeding
mow some grass
harvest most of garlic now.
at end of week dig up a new potato

w/c 22/6/20

Its Shoots week on the VC Calendar ....

Who's VC?

  Old habits die hard, Mark. 
If I'd said it was the Veggie Calendar people might have thought it was serious advice. 

My list for last week included everything not done the previous week -

Plant out - basil, flowers ( marigolds COULDN'T FIND ANY!!), spare pumpkins on hugelbed.
Sow -  basil, coriander,,
Weed herb bed. Mulch.

Plus sow - beetroot, turnips (yes, every week!), January King cabbage. 
Clear bolting lettuces DONE, mulch various bits of veg plot with manure DONE.
Plant out soya beans DONE

All now DONE apart from planting out the spare pumpkins & basil!

This week (W/C 15th June) - all the not done above, plus

Plant out -  spare aubergines, artichokes.
Prick out flowers & basil.

Next week (w/c 22nd June) - all the not done above - plant out basil, artichokes & spare squash, prick out basil, zinnias & marigolds (Found them!)
Plus - plant out climbing & dwarf haricots, soya beans, corn, onions.
Prune wisteria.
Make a start on trimming hedges where there are no nesting birds.
Sow - beetroot, lettuce, radish & turnip.
Keep on top of weeding & mulching, watering, tomato armpits, dead heading and harvesting.

Everything above is now DONE bar planting out soya .

This week -
Plant out soya, beetroot, turnips
Sow radish, beetroot, chard/leaf beet, last batch dwarf haricot & soya, turnips

Clear some debris from pond (carefully)
Strim grass paths in potager
Weed & top up mulch in veg beds where it has got too thin.

Harvest, prune, deadhead, tie in at will!

Who knows what the coming week will bring. If the wind dies down I'll be assisting with glazing. If not the list is:

Continue planting out bedding
Sow beetroot in modules and other seeds for new gh, when I decide what. Paul is concerned that if the frame stays bare too long there will be beans climbing up it!
Thin out turnips - maybe
Tidy strawberries now they're over
Pick beans of various sorts, cucumbers, raspberries, carrot thinnings, baby beet, chard
Tomatoes - tie in, armpit, feed, etc

- start painting new raised reds.....

- tidy plot shed.....

- distribute more grass clippings....

- strim side of the plot....

- plant out bits....

- sow some more bits....

w/c 22/6/20

Its Shoots week on the VC Calendar so I will be sowing spring onions, leeks and some Oriental salad leaves. DONE

Tying in/armpitting tomatoes DONE
Picking lots of soft fruit - every day! DONE
Thinning apples DONE

Merging more beds. DONE

 Amazing! I did it all last week.

w/c 29/6/20
Its Fruits week on the VC Calendar and I need to pot up the beans, courgettes, cucumbers and peas that I've sown. Also plant out some Patty pan squash if they're big enough.

One side bed in GH No 2 is empty so needs filling with something - maybe I'll divide it in 4 and sow a mixed salad (lettuce, spring onions and radish) in it each week.
The usual jobs :-
Tying in/armpitting tomatoes
Picking lots of soft fruit.
Thinning apples.
Merging more beds. 

Pull up some yellow raspberries.

Last week -
-
Plant out soya, beetroot, turnips DONE
Sow radish, beetroot DONE, chard/leaf beet DONE, last batch dwarf haricot DONE & soya, turnips 

Clear some debris from pond (carefully) 
Strim grass paths in potager DONE
Weed & top up mulch in veg beds where it has got too thin. DONE

Harvest, prune, deadhead, tie in at will! DONE!

This week -

Clear mangetout
Make comfrey feed
Plant out - 
January King cabbages
?Lettuce
?basil

Harvest, prune, deadhead, tie in at will.
Spray tomatoes


Sow carrots & lettuce, soya & ?radish & turnips but probably too hot for a few weeks.

Last week -

Clear mangetout DONE
Make comfrey feed DONE
Plant out -
January King cabbages
?Lettuce
?basil

Harvest, prune, deadhead, tie in at will.
Spray tomatoes DONE


Sow carrots & lettuce, soya & ?radish & turnips but probably too hot for a few weeks.

Well, that wasn't a very productive week!

This week

Plant out - 

January King cabbages
Lettuce
basil
Beetroot
Coriander
Red Russian kale

Prick out more January King cabbages

Sow - carrots & lettuce, soya.

Harvest, prune, deadhead, tie in at will. Keep checking for cabbage white caterpillars, brassica beetles & colorado beetle on the aubergines.

Weed gravel.