2022 - What I did today

Did lots of clearing and tidying today. I cut down the container rose that suddenly decided it wanted to be 15 feet tall. Not really the right time for pruning roses but it was looming over my poor neighbours, so the rather drastic haircut was definitely needed. I've also weeded down the side of the greenhouse, getting completely covered in sticky seeds as I went. I'm thinking about sticking some early potatoes there next year as I hope the area will warm up early being between the greenhouse glass and a fence.

I've cut down all my greenhouse tomatoes. They were doing great until I caught COVID again during those really hot days. While I managed to keep them alive for that first week, it's taken me a couple of months to really get my gardening oomph back and they have all died in that time. I've collected lots of green tomatoes from the plants, and am sure I can come up with some way to use them. All the (dead) greenery has been cut down and added to the compost heap. I've tipped the used compost onto a bed that I started preparing but never really got going with as my compost supplies ran low. I've sown some seeds there that may still give me a late crop, like turnip tops and corn salad.

I've also harvested some more tomatillos and made a sort of salsa verde that has also included a home grown courgette and my first harvest from the Welsh onions that Veggie put in the seed swap (they've done really well, but I've wanted to let them establish properly before I started picking leaves). They have more of a leek flavour than a spring onion one, so they didn't entirely fit with the salsa verde but they will be great for soups and stews.