2025 - What I did today

Sown seeds, started giving the sales barrow a freshen up. (Photos tomorrow, when it’s finished)

Sowed courgettes & physalis, Planted DFB seedlings in a supermarket crate in GH2. Planted the last 5 perennial cauliflowers in the garden as they were starting to head up/flower and its way too soon for them to produce a cauli. Cut back/pruned some fruit bushes & trees.

Planted out lots of flowers. Planted up my veg bed with 2 varieties of beetroot & 2 varieties of broccoli.
Finished off the sales barrow make over. Our very talented neighbour wrote the sign for us. Mine & Bobs attempts both looked like a 4 year old had been let loose thigh the paint   .

   

Sowed carrots, planted out another double row of broad beans. Planted retaining planks in the other patch before digging over.

^^^I wonder if planted planks sprout baby planks

^^^I  wonder if planted planks sprout baby planks

You Planker, Rodney.

As well as toiling at allotment I managed to give my lawn at home it's first cut of the season. Not much grass came off it and in retrospect, didn't need cutting.

A little pottering around this morning but wasted this afternoon, waiting for the central heating guy to come to service the boiler. He eventually turned up about 4, did the boiler but has to come back sometime to drain the system and fit new valves on 3 radiators that weren't heating up properly. That'll be another day wasted.

Went to the allotment and scraped old wood chip off the paths then tipped it into the fruit cage to act as mulch. Really hard going where grass had grown in it. Put some fresh stuff down but it's very hot as it has lots of green in it and the pile is big. The house that backs onto our plot had the whole hedge/tree row out and they kindly tipped the chippings right on our plot. Minimal borrowing distance for once!

^^^I  wonder if planted planks sprout baby planks

^^^ I also wonder if baby planks are called woodchip?