2025 - What I did today

Hid in the GH out of the rain and potted up some melons, cucamelons, courgettes and sundry unknown cucurbits.
Emptied the trays of non-germinated beans. No sign of the seeds in the compost, not even soggy ones. If I didn't have an empty seed packet I could believe I'd never sown them.

Fed the polytunnel fruit trees and the top shelf of mint with the new liquid feed I’ve been given. Added some of the raw biochar to the compost bin . Planted out the last few sunflowers and the echium steeple

It's raining, so it's indoor activities for me on my day off. I've printed off a satellite map of our garden, and printed it as a poster. It's four A4 sheets wide and three high, so quite big! AI told me how to do that in Paint of all programs!
I have put that on the wall, and will overlay that with cellophane so I can draw the outlines of the garden and scribble on it as much as I like, as I'm planning what it will look like.

I've been out to see the chickens and feed them the scraps from last night vegetables, sowed some pine tree seeds, and checked out the seed trays. More cucumbers and squashes are finally germinating, now that I've put them outside!

So far this morning: Planted the last of the CFB, DFB still to go. The chard has leaf miner so inspected the leaves for borers and fly eggs and at the same time picked enough for tea. Sowed MT Snak Hero, anyone tried them before and can report? Picked the first broad beans and picked strawberries. After lunch I will probably plant out some bedding.

Never heard of Snak Hero - looks like Suttons sell them and I don't shop there unless its a sale.
Emptied some big pots in the GH, harvested potatoes from one and a load of ant's eggs and flying ants from another!
General tidying of tomato & cucumber plants.
Weeding/ that is hacking my way through the Southern Distributor Path (between Middle Earth and the South Bank).
Snapped lots of Buddleia branches - too big for secateurs and I was too lazy to fetch loppers or saw. I enjoy a good snap.

Quick trip to the allotment. Harvested a few bits. Hand weeded around some small seedlings. Decided I need to grow my flower seedlings on to a better size before planting out in the future to aid weeding.

Started building a bird table.

Spent all day today at the top of the garden.Originally  I was going to build my own shed and had the four corners in position which I had to take down to be able to site my new shed. I thought my new shed was the same size but it is a LOT bigger. Old shed was 8x6 and new one is 10x8!
Once framework was removed I had also to move a mountain of stored wood which will now become log burner fodder. Hacking out brambles, a blackcurrant bush and loads of nettles wasnt a pleasant job.
I now have four lumps of wood hammered into the soil to mark the shed position (finally found a use for trigonometry I learned at school!)

The major problem is the ground slopes away in two directions so lots of digging to 'cut and fill' and get reasonably level. Another days work I reckon as I am knackered!

Never heard of Snak Hero - looks like Suttons sell them and I don't shop there unless its a sale.
Emptied some big pots in the GH, harvested potatoes from one and a load of ant's eggs and flying ants from another!
General tidying of tomato & cucumber plants.
Weeding/ that is hacking my way through the Southern Distributor Path (between Middle Earth and the South Bank).
Snapped lots of Buddleia branches  - too big for secateurs and I was too lazy to fetch loppers or saw. I enjoy a good snap.

Yes they were from Suttons in the seed sale at I think 99p and free p&p, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.  Snak Hero was on my list of new things to try next year so I jumped at the sale.

Potted up 3 Sage plants I’d grown from cuttings.
Planted out my last 2 spare tomato plants at the end of the courgette bed.
Made a birthday card tidied up my messy craft room.