Seven Jobs for the week

1. Now it's dampish, weed and dig over the rhubarb/strawberry patch
2. Harden off some toms and plants whilst the weather is warmish
3. Put top on and close up fruit cages.
4. Weed flower borders
5. Elbow toms
6. Sow more sweetcorn, one batch seems a non starter.
7. Pot on squashes and courgettes

Carried Over - 
Weed around new millepertuis DONE
Cut back neighbour’s red robin (he won’t mind!) DONE
Move carpet to suppress weeds on new bank bed (blackbirds nesting next to the bed fledged yesterday so I can go in and be noisy now!) DONE

Last Week –
Plant out haricot DONE
Weed gravel at front of house DONE
Weed gravel beside gates DONE
Plant up summer bulbs (if they arrive - due last week) DONE
Plant up new bank bed - will just be a small section, now 
Clear B7 – celery, chard all bolting Ongoing 
Cut wild bank DONE 

Next week -
Move tomato frame & extend
Buy & install cover for frame
Plant out tomatoes in frame!
Cut veg garden paths 
Prune leggy bits of wisteria 
Weed arch bed
Feed pots

1. Sow more flower seeds - started, sowed more, but not done
2. Glass the greenhouse - started, not yet complete
3. Find replacement glass - Not started
4. Paint my newly acquired wooden arch and the chicken shed
5. Sow more veggies - sowed more, but not done (am I ever? I'm taking this off next week, as it's such a given!)
6. Pot some of the veggies on that are outgrowing their pots before the last frost has gone. Done!
7. Train the rest of the household to water veggies while I'm away for a week on a girly trip Not started, other than mentioning it to Jay which gave him a startled facial expression haha

I'm going to ignore last week as we were away and I'm not a total glutton for punishment!!

Carried Over - 
Plant up new bank bed
Clear B7 – celery, chard all bolting ONGOING

Last week -
Move tomato frame & extend DONE
Buy & install cover for frame BOUGHT
Plant out tomatoes in frame! DONE
Cut veg garden paths DONE
Prune leggy bits of wisteria DONE
Weed arch bed DONE
Feed pots DONE

This week –
Cut paths
Prune vines
Clear finished borage (self seeded throughout veg plot)
Plant out haricot
Sow list
Cut bamboo/hazel for bean poles
Make comfrey tea

Lots of weeding needs doing:

hoe and weed onions
hoe and weed more potatoes
feed potatoes & onions
weed&mulch polytunnel
weed&mulch GH
fruit fly traps
feed tomatoes
weed/thin carrots
Weed & net strawbs

Carried Over -
Plant up new bank bed DONE
Clear B7 – celery, chard all bolting DONE
Buy & install cover for frame BOUGHT

Last week -
Cut paths
Prune vines DONE
Clear finished borage (self seeded throughout veg plot) DONE
Plant out haricot DONE
Sow list DONE
Cut bamboo/hazel for bean poles DONE 
Make comfrey tea DONE

This week –
Trim wisteria
Feed pots and veg
Weeky sow list
Clear last broad beans
Strim front
Cut trailing geowth of bramble and rose from the hedges
Plant out replacement peppers and aubergines

Not done yet:
weed&mulch polytunnel
weed&mulch GH
fruit fly traps
weed/thin carrots

We are going away for a week early June and definitely need the GH and poly mulching with grass cuttings before then. So this week will be mainly mowing and weeding then water the GH and poly and a thick layer of grass.

Trying again!!
Monday - Roots - plant potatoes & sow beetroot
Tuesday - Shoots - plant perennial leeks & winter leeks
Wed - Fruits - plant squashes & cukes & feed tomatoes
Thurs - Leaves - sow lettuce & take kale cuttings
Fri - Flowers - sow Cornflowers and wildflower mix
Sat & Sun = Catchup.

1. Weed fruit cage
2. Pick strawberries, maybe broadbeans and MT
3. Plant....anything
4. Weed rockery
5. Dig up chard to make room for beans/peas
6. Feed gh toms
7. Stake, elbow and tie in toms

Not necessarily in that order.

Carried Over - 
Buy & install cover for frame BOUGHT & INSTALLED
Cut paths DONE

Last week -
Trim wisteria (check for nests) DONE
Feed pots and veg DONE
Weekly sow list DONE
Clear last of the broad beans DONE
Strim front DONE
Cut long (vicious) growths of bramble & wild rose from the hedges DONE
Plant out replacement peppers/aubergines DONE

Next week –
Plant out more aubergines, peppers and last courgette
Weed around pond
Clear finished nigella from palm bed
Plant out Dracula dahlias
Feed tomatoes etc
Make more feed and bottle the last lot
Plant out cosmos & zinnias