2022 - What I did today

Popped over the plot early doors to water, glad I did as I released a trapped bird from one of the brassica cages.

Harvested some carrots and a massive collard, freezed the lot.

Looking after nextdoor a bit this morning, making sure they drink plenty. Harvesting this pm. Beans, rasps, gooseberries, more beans.

I've watered everything, and thankfully there's still water in the butts. I've potted up cuttings, put flowers into the new circular containers for walls that I found cheap at B&M yesterday and hot them up on the front of the house with Jay's help. I re-laid the path in the greenhouse to stabilise it a bit more, laid cardboard in half of it, topped with manure and planted out four buckets of tomatoes. I took a wooden base apart, as I want to use the wood for the potting table for the new greenhouse. I sowed courgettes, Welsh onions, kalettes and pak choi.

A bit of plant juggling. All the poppies that have finished in pots, I’ve removed from pot and put them into in the front garden so hopefully they’ll just self seed and I won’t have to do any planting next year ( if we’re still here ) . Collected seeds. Made some slugs very aware they weren’t welcome.

Lots of watering - climbing beans, squash/pumpkins, potatoes, onions, leeks, cabbage patch, polytunnel, mint. harvested courgettes (12 bigish) cucumber 5 , green beans 1kg+, a few tomatoes and some peas for next year's seeds. Weeded potatoes and leeks

Fed a few things with the weed tea.
Saved some seeds.
Harvested stuff for this evening.
Went though all my seeds & updated my list. Quite a few I’d not added , even more I’d not taken off . Turns out I have rather a lot of seeds   .
Removed the very first semi permanent feature from the veggie garden ready to go to my new garden. 4 large thick and very heavy rubber mats (ex playground flooring).

watering again this morning, GH, broadbeans, more squash, dfbs, raspberries, carrots, parsnips and courgettes. Picked some more dried peapods for next year and about 4lb of plums.

Cut back bracken & rushes from around trees and the heeled in hedging plants. Cut down another big patch and layer the rubber mats for a heard standing area and as weed suppressant.
Went paddling in the ditch so I could Plant a tray of aubrieta low down on the bank.
Sorted out lots of cardboard boxes removing tape & labels and flattening them ready to use as suppressant.
Got a lot more plants ready to go to the new site. Big Things that are for hedging and will cope with a little neglect.

Watered, Pruned and tied in the GH toms and cucumbers, I've been waiting for the weather to cool a bit before spending time in there.
One of the Carosello has flowers! Its a start.
Cut back a lot of brambles growing through the trampoline and in the back hedge.
The front side hedge (mostly fig and camellia) was cut back today - my job is to clear up the mess afterwards!
Cut lots of mildewy leaves off the courgettes.
Spotted roots on the Escargot begonia leaves that I put in water a couple of weeks ago. Looking forward to growing lots of baby Escargot.

Finally got round to replacing the 5m curtain rail in the lounge that I broke when fly swatting a moth ago. Unpacked the Swish box and there were bits missing. Getting much action from the supplier on a Friday afternoon wasn't too successful. P was hoping it was just a replacement rail that would hook on existing wall brackets but no they've changed the wall brackets since the last one went up in 1985 so he wasn't too pleased, then he saw plaster cracks that, of course, had to be dealt with. We got the rail up thinking it was like for like but this one is 4" longer so the batten with the brackets on is too short, we will take it down again today and cut it to fit. I put the curtains in the wash and hung them out, half an hour later it rained so stopped eating dinner to scurry getting them in. Then what to do with them? We've had a hallway draped with drying curtains all night, it's a bit of an obstacle course. THEN I look at the nice dry curtains this morning and they have some holes in them probably from the agitation the washing machine and th fact that the material probably 38 years old (I don't redecorate often, if ever). Look at it this way I have nice clean curtains decorating my hallway.