Just found out our garden waste bin will start up again starting on the 20th April but won't be till week after for us as goes out at the same time as recycling bin that will help with rubbish from garden and even allotment
Thanks GemmaJF think a new bit of plastic has been moved in the bin was not there before
Hello , another busy day at plot , planted 2 big beds of Maris Piper main crop potatoes 🥔 O/H Strimmed road way where we are going to replace fence netting Also put path clear weed killer on paths Going to make a boot scraper from a broken spade . Picked our first Asparagus As ever a few other jobs
Gardengirl - Noticed today, Jerusalem Artichokes are coming up. Can I still dig some up to eat or is it to late? Brought a bag full home along with first of the rubarb. Asparagus is also beginning to surface although just one shoot today.
By the time I got to the plot it had really heated up in the GH. Night temps are really unpredictable here. It dropped to 2 last night but rose to 18 or 19 by midday. I've left one GH open this evening, closed the other and transferred a lot of seedlings in to the plastic GH.
The soil is like dust here rain forecast this weekend, fingers crossed
Looking forward to gardeners World tonight. Have a nice weekend everyone.
Wet and drizzly here today, can't complain the ground needs it badly. Update on the propagator. First tomatoes are up, just waiting on the pumpkins to make a show, but there are signs of rumblings going on in the pumpkin pots!
Zoomer , wouldn’t normally be digging up Jureslum Artichokes to eat at the moment , I treat them as a winters crop , however, can’t see why not , enjoy 😉
Went to plot late afternoon. Planted out more broad beans and kohi Rabi. I'd forgotten about flea beetle on the plot, they've nibbled at the pea's planted out a few days ago but haven't touched chard.
I've sown toms, aubergines and chillies again, this time in the GH. Another plot holder had left 6 tom plants after mentioning knocking the propagator off the radiator which was nice, although the pots weren't labelled so don't know what varieties they are.
Some seedlings seem to be doing better than others, I've loads of Rudbeckia and Zinnia flowers but not many marigolds. Loads of lettuce but turnip have now stopped growing.
Zoomer that was nice of others - re plants, they are more pea and bean weevil that eat the leaf edges, you doing the same gardeners world Zinnia - will have to look for mine
Which way are you cooking your artichokes?
Still to sow a lot of flower seeds yet - some marigolds coming up seeds that said sow on surface not coming up yet others are under soil
This evening I was spreading the road scalping about to help the car park lots of effort that took up
Giving the back a break after all that fence building @GWRS (it does look good) does it rip easily if very windy? It also looks to give a bit of privacy for what you have planted , as you never know who might be coveting your produce.
Purplerallim , it’s Privacy Fencing from Lidl , it seems to be ok in the wind , the previous stuff was a plastic wind brake material which had lasted a few years but kept splitting Put it up to stop rabbits 🐇 & hares coming onto plot
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O/H Strimmed road way where we are going to replace fence netting
Also put path clear weed killer on paths
Going to make a boot scraper from a broken spade . Picked our first Asparagus
As ever a few other jobs
By the time I got to the plot it had really heated up in the GH. Night temps are really unpredictable here. It dropped to 2 last night but rose to 18 or 19 by midday. I've left one GH open this evening, closed the other and transferred a lot of seedlings in to the plastic GH.
The soil is like dust here rain forecast this weekend, fingers crossed
Looking forward to gardeners World tonight. Have a nice weekend everyone.
I've sown toms, aubergines and chillies again, this time in the GH. Another plot holder had left 6 tom plants after mentioning knocking the propagator off the radiator which was nice, although the pots weren't labelled so don't know what varieties they are.
Some seedlings seem to be doing better than others, I've loads of Rudbeckia and Zinnia flowers but not many marigolds. Loads of lettuce but turnip have now stopped growing.
Hopefully going to plot on Wednesday , could do with a bit of weeding
Put it up to stop rabbits 🐇 & hares coming onto plot