Gardening 2021

[randynewmanscat]

It don't look like much but there is six hours without pause work in this out of focus image, i'm knackered.
Potatoes, garlic, onions and shallots all various varieties.
It's the thin stony end of my vegetable plot and looks poor but four years of growing and amendments and the soil is still calciferous but it gets looser and darker each year.
The other end which is really the vegetable plot proper is totally different soil due to alluvial matter from a long defunct small river.

Down the middle will be paved with one of those bales tomorrow, I have an intense dislike of weeding.

 

[AndreaJ]

Three of my gardening “assistants “ in the middle of the autumn raspberries. They are very good at eating smaller slugs and snails but they do like eating some plants.
Waiting for some vegetable seeds to arrive this week- yellow courgette, butternut squash, sweetcorn, beetroot and carrots. Already planted some beans and round courgettes just need a plan to protect them all from the hens and dogs. Louis the spaniel enjoyed some purple sprouting broccoli this week!

 

[fossyant]

Ohh, a day early on the delivery. I'll get this set up as we're at the caravan at weekend and I won't need to ask the teens to water the greenhouse.

Micro irrigation system using a timer and a pond pump from the water butt.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Well that is certainly what ours have done.
Thanks.

Keep them watered and they will go for ages, ours are still going strong.

 

[fossyant]

All done..

 

[randynewmanscat]

All done..

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You've been busy.

 

[randynewmanscat]

There will be no wandering around with a propane bottle on a trolley this year. I have a small grill on a stick for torching anything between the onions but hoeing pathways or burning them is time costly.

The farmer actually dropped that bale with the correct unwind direction praise be.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The Dhalia tubers have been moved to the boxroom window sill and I've now got sweet peas on the kitchen window sill, two trays of perennials and two trays of annuals, I'm taking a chance with the perennials, the packet of seeds is several years old. I have trouble growing Clematis here, lots of problems with Clematis wilt, so I'm going to plant some sweet peas, something I haven't done for a while.

 

[fossyant]

You've been busy.

Saves me forgetting to water stuff. It's mainly for when we are at the caravan at weekends. The pond pump gives just enough pressure - would be better off mains. I've got 25m of micro hose left and a load of drippers. The outside socket will be on a timer (at the plug in the garage - the sockets are effectively 'extension leads' and plugged into an RCD

I think I'll link up the hanging baskets when they go up and maybe buy another kit for £18. I'll have these on mains and a timer I think for when we go away.

It's the only issue with going to the caravan at weekends - hot weather can nearly kill off your pots with no watering for a few days.

Just need to look after all the seedlings, and we might actually get some veg and flowers.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Saves me forgetting to water stuff. It's mainly for when we are at the caravan at weekends. The pond pump gives just enough pressure - would be better off mains. I've got 25m of micro hose left and a load of drippers. The outside socket will be on a timer (at the plug in the garage - the sockets are effectively 'extension leads' and plugged into an RCD

I think I'll link up the hanging baskets when they go up and maybe buy another kit for £18. I'll have these on mains and a timer I think for when we go away.

It's the only issue with going to the caravan at weekends - hot weather can nearly kill off your pots with no watering for a few days.

Just need to look after all the seedlings, and we might actually get some veg and flowers.

A day away can kill your plants here in August
I bought a load of irrigation stuff from Ali a couple of years ago and it works a treat. Even the Ali timer with the 4 way manifold, I have to soak the manifold in vinegar occasionally as the valves won't shut due to the ridiculous amount of carbonates in the water.
A friend and I dug a narrow trench to bury 30M of polythene 12mm pipe as I got fed up with scorch marks on the grass after leaving the hose out.
It was not much fun digging a trench. It's not deep enough to be safe from frost so I blow it out in the autumn.
I put a meter on the supply to the underground pipe and on a day when everything on the plot starts to wilt I use 550L.
If I was not so lazy I would catch the water off the barn roof and pump that from 1,000L cubes, I should do as I am on a meter! I have a decent well and somewhere a well pump but as I said I am lazy by nature.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Just need to look after all the seedlings, and we might actually get some veg and flowers.

With the effort you put in only a summer of continual dark skies will deprive you of a harvest and something nice to look at

 

[Dave 123]

Extra shelf space added today on a spare piece of wall

 

[jowwy]

My fruit trees are coming on nicely

plum tree

Apple tree

Cherry tree

 

[fossyant]

Just -re-potted over 50 "baby plum" tomatoe plants. These were the 'left over' seeds my wife grew on tissue paper from when we sliced a load of tomatoes prepping a meal just to try.

Good job we like tomatoes. Actually bought two 'normal sized' tomatoe plants. Some seeds not germinating yet, but broad beans, carrots, marrigold, raddish, lettuce all on the way.

 

[jowwy]

My grass is growing back well, but i did put down another 2kg of seed over the weekend to help fill in the patches......also started to re-paint the decking steps