2022 - What I did today

So far, I've:

* Put Sarriss's mystery beans, runner beans, Lima beans,and dwarf french beans to soak ahead of being baggy sown.

* Sown the climbing french beans I baggy sowed last week.

* Pricked out some salvia.

* Planted out my pot grown broad beans.

* Planted out some multi-sown radishes.

* Planted out some perennial kale.

* First succession sowing of carrots (should be the second, but I didn't have the compost in time).

* Sown salsify and scorzonera.

* Second cucumber sowing (I've somehow acquired two new varieties since the first...)

* Potted on some parsley.

Baggy sown?

Onto wet kitchen towel in a bag. Essentially chitting rather than sowing. I've had varying success, but it seems to work well for most larger seeds that need to be at room temperature. I don't think I'll ever try it for anything in the propagator again though!

Gotcha

Planted out some pot sown spring onions.

Oh Pros, I tried soaking them before planting and they fell apart. When I direct sowed them, they grew! I'd take them out of that water luv, sorry!

Sounds like you've been busy I'm recovering from a girly day and night sesh in Lincoln yesterday. Feeling a little tired today lol

Thank you - rescued and in compost now!

Last week I put the indoor toms into bigger pots, just to be kind, as they're very pregnant. This morning one of them is producing a bean! From the soil not the plant, I hasten to add. Either this tom has been playing away or there was a stowaway in the compost. I'm going to rescue it into it own pot to see which sort it is.

I have lifted some paving slabs, gathered up lots of gravel, and then dug over the second old raised bed that had very compacted clay soil, and removed lots of stones/rocks/bricks as I went. Then I've put cardboard over the grass at the bottom end of it and raked the soil. I've planted a very sad looking rhubarb crown into it.

Before that, I pulled up some weeds coming between the slabs in the greenhouse, and then covered one side of the greenhouse with cardboard to try and stop the weeds coming back. I am using all my big boxes to create beds, so this was lots of smaller old food boxes that I started saving while I was still in the hospital accommodation. Didn't have enough to do even a third of the greenhouse, but thankfully I have more stashed away in my dining room ready to use.

I wanted to do more, but I am shattered now! I will have a rest and then try to do my most urgent sowing this evening (the things I soaked overnight).

Weeded my carrots. Took bay cuttings again. Maybe this time!

I had a girly weekend in Lincoln so only got home lunch time yesterday, exhausted. Didn't have any high hopes of getting anything done today either as it was forecast rain.

However, when I got up, watched Gardeners world while I had a long breakfast (includes normal breakfast and two more cups of coffee), then I was ready to get cracking!

Greenhouse plants got a good soaking, and so did some of the potted plants outside. I'm trying to empty the IBC that was feeding the pond, so using that water for most of it.
Jay then joined me outside, and we started putting the greenhouse frame together. We'd already put the front panel together, as well as the back panel. I had prepared the two first horizontal pieces to join the back piece so it went together quite quickly. It took us both four hours together, and I did the last few vertical bars at the bottom and two of the windows on my own. I am so excited, I can't TELL you!
   
... and from the side
   

That's brilliant Sarriss, it's a fine sized greenhouse. No bits left over to cause concern?

Nothing left over but a cill to go over the door, and a few brackets that we will use to fasten the frame to the base. Mostly we'll drill new holes and fasten it that way.

13 foot by 11! It's the biggest normal greenhouse I've seen!

Moved the nylon 'pub carpet' up the bank for weed suppression. The carpet was being chucked by a friend, it covered the concrete floor when we were living in the house while we fitted it out, then went under the solar panels when they were mounted on a frame on the ground, and now has been suppressing weeds for 2-3 years and is STILL bright red and solid as a solid thing!
Cut back weeds under the vines, trying to leave the more interesting flowers.
Edged all the paths in the veg garden.
It rained most of the time.