2020 - Tell us what you did today

Yesterday I picked black currants and boiled them up, before leaving overnight to drip through a muslin cloth. Tonight I made some black currant jelly, I prefer it to jam. ?

I just adore black currant anything - remind me of that when my ten extra bushes come into production next year!! Froze small bag of black currants & jostaberries.

2kg off one 3 year old bush, is enough for me and my back PP.

- Continued painting RB's, up to 9 now

- Found external hard drive so backed up laptop

Aided and abetted Paul in putting in water butts temporarily to catch forecast rain. Trip to builder's yard to get slabs for same. Harvested various. Cleared up hedge trimmings for Paul.

Weeding the veg patch and sadly clearing pretty much all the turnips which have been felled by the brassica bug - as the leaves shrivel under attack the plants bolt. I shall hide the next lot among the beans & lettuces!

Not a lot. But I did help open up a water feature at the plot      

   

Seed juggling. In & out & back in again of an online shopping basket.

I've been doing that SP - I want more flowers to sow in September.

Tidied up my big GH, put a wheel barrow of compost in. Armpitted toms. Cut loads of leaves off.
Pricked out and potted in flower seedlings and some agapanthus that a friends 80 year old Dad started off for me - he said they were very dark purple/navy blue? fingers crossed.
Rearranged all my pots on the trays to get more space.

Cleared all the weeds from the pond area that is flagged. All the weeds get inbetween. Must have dug away 10 buckets of mud and weeds.

I have a large border that I'm revamping - wondering what to plant in it for summer colour.

Seed juggling too, but only because it was so windy on the plot that I struggled to hang on to the packets lol

I've bought some seeds for geums, as I'm developing a bit of a thing for all things geums. What lovely flowers they are! I will have a geum bed on the allotment, or maybe even two! I bought some geums at Home bargains a while ago in big pots that were reduced, so I bought three. I'm going to split them before I plant them at home, but I reckon some might go up to the allotment too

I've been pondering my structural needs at the allotment. I need fruit cages, and some kind of permanent frames that I can throw neeting and fleece over if needed. I wonder if it will cost me a fortune, or if there's anywhere I could go for waste wood battens that would be sturdy enough and I'm coming up with very little. I might try the old FB to see if anyone wants rid of anything that would be suitable. Lightweight, but reasonably sturdy.

Back to work tomorrow, and after a week off, I'm just not ready for that. But... I'll go get the dogs after, stick them in the car and go up to the allotment. That'll cheer me up