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RE: 2025 - What I did today - Bren - 02-09-2025
Went to a family wedding yesterday.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Vinny - 02-09-2025
Tipped out a carrier bag of onions I had brought from allotment onto my decking. Soted out the smallest ones which I would make pickled onions with.
Topped/tailed and peeled onions until I had enough fo my storage jar. Tipped them back out of jar ito a sieve and rinsed. I decided to just use what I aleady had in the house. I put peppecorms, sugar, salt and deied bay leaves into bottom of jar with a little vinegar and mixed it all up until sugar and salt had dissolved.
Added onions, aded vinegar, clamped lid on and gave it a good shake!
No idea what they will be like, but I will pobably leave a fortnight to infuse befoe tying them? I have alwways used malt vinegar in the past, so we shall see?
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Veggie - 02-09-2025
Picked a bucket of apples and pruned bits off the tree in the process. Sliced and cooked a panful which I'll freeze for winter breakfasts.
Took the melon pot out of the GH as it was covered in whitefly. There was a very fat ladybird at the bottom! Binned the plants as they're clearly not going to do anything worthwhile. Picked some tomatoes and did some de-leafing.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Vinny - 03-09-2025
Planted a fig tree I just purchased in a large square plastic pot. Used a full bag of John Innes compost I had left over from last year! I have put it on the decking for now but undecided whether to take it to allotment and and put it in my semi glass- less greenhouse or whether to just bury the whole pot in the garden whee I want it to grow? I reckon I have a month or two to make a decision? I can't imagine them being an ornamental plant though?
Because the rain wasn't too bad (quite refreshing really!) I decided to get my wood saw out and cut the boads I had marked to size the other day! All boads for shelf now cut but still need to notch them out aound upights on bench I made.
I have a (what was probably expensive?) folding garden table frame (looks like mahaogany) in the shed which needed a bit of repair with long screws. Once it was
solid again I folded it up and took it outside to make a bit of room. It is a really handy table and I used it a lot when building the shed fo setting out and screwing pieces together.
Then the HEAVY rain came and I said "Sod it" and called it a day!
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Veggie - 03-09-2025
Transplanted about a dozen modules of chives into a small plant trough. They've been hanging around for months, waiting for me to do something with them. They were a mass of tangled roots! That's about all I did in the garden today - its been raining for most of it.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - JJB - 04-09-2025
Tipped water out of the the seedling trays. After months of watering it seems strange to be protecting them from drowning. Picked rain sodden raspberries.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Veggie - 05-09-2025
Did some weeding around the Sweet Chestnut in Middle Earth. The ground is damp enough that weeds can be pulled out with their roots, Very satisfying when that happens.
Emptied a 30 ltr pot that had some potatoes in it. They weren't really ready for harvesting - a shop would sell them as "baby potatoes" and charge lots of money for them.
Did some GH tidying up - emptying trays, sorting pots. Moved the cucamelon pot out of the GH as it was covered in whitefly.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Small chilli - 06-09-2025
Dug up the persicaria purple fantasy. Broke my spade in the process. Offered it on 2 local groups. [attachment=8469] .
Collected seeds.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Veggie - 06-09-2025
Weed pulling again today, raking out dead grass, General tidying.
RE: 2025 - What I did today - Bren - 07-09-2025
Yesterday i removed leaves from the GH tomato plant that's finished today the plants will be coming out. A couple of plants only a few toms left so I'll leave them longer.