2025 - What I did today

Scattered a jar full of old flower seeds in Middle Earth.
Weeded a bit of VP4 and sprinkled old lettuce seeds there.
Nothing too energetic today!

Harvested some stuff, brought some dried seed in for cleaning storing, emptied 2 potato grow bags. Some of the compost from them went on fish box container raised beds. Weeded the elephant garlic.

I've had a busy few weeks, as I'm cramming gardening time inbetween my hours at work. We will get a new shift roster in December and I'm reducing my hours from 32 to 26, which will be much better.
This is not what I've done today, but what I can (or can't) remember telling you about before.

The two polytunnels are finished - erected, plast pulled over, tied down, frame bolted to the concrete, and plastic pulled down and bolted to heavy wooden joists. So far they've not moved an inch.
I'm already looking at buying two more tunnels lol They're cheap enough.

All pelargoniums have been taken into the barn for their winter rest. I don't have room for them in the house, so I've cut them all down, repotted, and potted up all the cuttings. They'll be in low light, low temps all winter.

We are going to extend the loop for the robot mower, while the mower itself is taking a well deserved rest over winter. We have had several very hard frosts, so the grass won't grow much more now.

Raspberries have been rehomed to make a path down to the polytunnels. They've found new homes near the pond.

Lots of seeds collected from the climbing nasturtium, and dried them. Likewise with aquilegias, but I may have mentioned them before.

Picked about 20kg of mushrooms in the forests behind our land, and I have eaten, frozen or dried all of them. I'm even attempting to make my own mushroom soy sauce.

We have had a surplus of eggs from our five hens, and I bought the stuff needed to waterglass a massive jar of them. I am hoping to get together another jar, but smaller, for the winter.

Lingonberry, rhubarb, rosehip, hazelnuts, blueberry and even some wild raspberry harvests have been taken care of.

Firewood has been dealt with from huge fallen trees. Chippings have been done for the garden paths.

Leaves are harvested as they fall, for mulch or for compost.

Old lanterns have been given solar powered lights and hung from trees in front of the house, to brighten my mood, if nothing else.

An old kitchen double sink with drainage boards on both sides has been purchased. It will be placed on top of a home built bench to go next to the poly tunnels for cleaning vegetables before bringing into the kitchen.

My old potting table has been put together, ready for all the sowing and potting on that will happen in a few months.

Winter pots have been prepared with winter plants, and they will be topped up before Christmas to make them festive.