2022 - What I did today
Mark_Riga Offline
Member from Cheshire
#961
More strimming then hoed/weeded/fed the onions, fed the potatoes and peas, harvested some garlic, red currants, some broccoli and a cabbage.

What I'm about to do is start a batch of sour dough. Not made any for a couple of years. The yeast that Chris bought during the first lockdown (about 5 tubs) is just about used up so I started a sour dough starter that is just about ready to use. will make a 'sponge' to work overnight and make the dough in the morning.
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Garrett Offline
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#962
Tied in the the tomatoes or tightened their strings (I'm doing a mix this year), armpitted and pruned off the lower branches.
Pruned the greengage.
Tied in the giant sunflowers to their canes.
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Vinny Offline
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#963
Watered stuf in greenhouse and put debri netting over my swedes which are getting hammered with the pigeons. Angry

Spent £3.05 this evening on £21's worth of yellow sticker groceries at Morries! Cool Two lots of fish and diced pork added to freezer, burgers into fridge for tomorrow and sushi with a duck/hoisin wrap for supper! Smile
"The problem with retirement is that you never get a day off"- Abe Lemons
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SarrissUK Offline
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#964
Well done Vinny!

I've just been out to water the greenhouse, collect eggs and just check things over. I've had to spend the rest of the night applying for a job at dizzyingly strategic heights, and I'm a bit worried because I really want it, but I'm also slightly cacking myself at the thought of doing it lol

Tomorrow I'm hoping to get the grass cut, because it's looooong! All this rain makes it go whooosh!!
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JJB Offline
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#965
Tended toms, picked strawbs, they're reaching the end on one patch. Thinned out beets which should have been done at seedling stage, removed leaves eaten by beet leaf miner on both beets and chard, they're a real pain this year. The miners and the blackfly are causing me grief this season Sad
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Broadway Offline
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#966
Couple of hours at the plot earlier however my body feels like it was longer.

Spent an hour weeding in and around 4 of the pallet collar raised beds before clearing a whole bed of comfrey. Half went in the compost and the rest in a blue barrel to make tea.

I need to build some more bed netting frames and decided it would be easier to do it at home so barrowed back a pallet collar and canes.

I've also been taking the yard fruit trees over the plot with a view of planting them when dormant, 5 down 1 to go!
Regards..........Danny Smile
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Garrett Offline
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#967
Pruned the Victoria plum tree, no fruit on it this year, swizz! I spotted some pigeon damage so that might be why.
Thinned out the biennial flowers and second sowing of various salad crops in modules.
Continued to shake my fist at the all male courgettes.
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PyreneesPlot Offline
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#968
Leek planting day! 70 St Victor, 70 Musselburgh & 70 Géant de Bulgarie. It rained the whole time.
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
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Mark_Riga Offline
Member from Cheshire
#969
(30-06-2022, 03:15 PM)Garrett Wrote: Pruned the Victoria plum tree, no fruit on it this year, swizz! I spotted some pigeon damage so that might be why.
Thinned out the biennial flowers and second sowing of various salad crops in modules.
Continued to shake my fist at the all male courgettes.

Not sure about shaking your fist, the ladies respond better if you sweet talk to them, or sing.
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Mark_Riga Offline
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#970
It was raining so I watered my potatoes and capsicum with slug nematodes. Then weeded and tied up broadbeans and dwarf french. The crop of broadbeans is quite light again as they have been visited by robber bees (and black aphids). I went round the garden area cutting down all the docks in flower then let a blackbird out of the fruitcage, will have to finish harvesting the red currants then they will stop looking for ways in (have 3½kg so far).
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