2025 - What I did today

Me & Bob made the extra dividers for my seed tins. Another 16 made this morning. Then I finished sorting seeds into their new tins & categories. Did a bit of heated propagator juggling. A couple of things came out. A few things got pricked out/ potted on. And some more pots went in to warm. Then it was more barrow loads of soil& manure to fill the raised veg bed. It’s taking such a long time.

Me & Bob made the extra dividers for my seed tins. Another 16 made this morning. Then I finished sorting seeds into their new tins & categories. Did a bit of heated propagator juggling. A couple of things came out. A few things got pricked out/ potted on. And some more pots went in to warm. Then it was more barrow loads of soil& manure to fill the raised veg bed. It’s taking such a long time.

Do you need to fill the bed completely? Could you half fill it this year and top it up next year? My inclination would be to have two beds, half full, rather than one deep bed.

Me & Bob made the extra dividers for my seed tins. Another 16 made this morning. Then I finished sorting seeds into their new tins & categories. Did a bit of heated propagator juggling. A couple of things came out. A few things got pricked out/ potted on. And some more pots went in to warm. Then it was more barrow loads of soil& manure to fill the raised veg bed. It’s taking such a long time.

Do you need to fill the bed completely? Could you half fill it this year and top it up next year? My inclination would be to have two beds, half full, rather than one deep bed.

That’s not the silliest idea. Only thing is the deeper it is the less water logging there will be. But I think a compromise is definitely on the cards.

Clearing up after yesterday's bonfire.
Weeding VP1 (the shelter bed).
Filled a jar with old Chard seeds which I'll scatter in a clear patch tomorrow.

Helped P clean the pond a bit. Sowed my tomatoes.

Put some spent coffee grounds around all the roses.

Planted 3 of the perennial cauliflowers in VP4. Wandered around for a while, trying to decide where to plant the other 7 caulis then had a brainwave, maybe? I'll turn VP4 into a perennials bed as its not much good for anything else because of the fruit trees in it. There a peach tree, 2 plums that have never fruited, 2 pears that do fruit, rhubarb, a blackcurrant bush, random raspberries and an enormous Taunton Deane perennial kale.
With this little plan in mind, I weeded a patch and planted 3 more caulis there, then scattered old chard seeds around them for company. Another 4 caulis to find a home!

Slowly getting my veg beds back from the weeds.
My Mum was unwell last year and eventually moved into a care home, so I was in the UK from late August until mid November with just a few weeks at home in October. Everything got a bit out of control! Mr PP harvested but didn't weed (or water the containers). I left everything under weeds for the winter but of course it's all growing like mad now the days are getting warmer.

Emptied some old pots into the new veg bed. Had a little tidy up in the tunnel to make a temporary space for some of the salad bar trays. Sown seeds for the salad bar and a tray of seed for a friend. Rock moving this afternoon. As I can’t split any more until they have been unstacked with a digger. I went and collected some from just outside the garden. Last year Bob dug a drainage ditch outside the top of the garden. To try to stop quite so much water sitting in the veg garden. It didn’t work at all. But he did dig up some very nice usable rocks that don’t need splitting. So I collected them. I’ll manhandle them into place tomorrow hopefully.

More of the same, plus sowed some flower seeds.
Cleared some algae from the pond.