Saturday/Sunday

(26/27 June)
Weekend off, so some time was available for the garden!
Earthed up the spuds (no, seriously)
Sifted two barrow-loads of compost for the 'main bed'.
Put a mesh over two butternut squashes.
Pinched out the growing tip of one of the Table Queens, as it seemed pretty long.
Sowed some more carrot seeds in the gaps between the carrots.
Watered lots.
Cherries on the new cherry tree seem to have died.
Apples setting pretty well (Loads dropping, but loads left)
Rhubarb in partial sun seems to be better off than the one in the orchard (though it's had almost a week extra in situ...)
Weeded the rose bed. (Or maybe I'd already done that...)
Marigolds in tray are sprouting (and brought inside to prevent further attack from some random creature than got into the tray) Marigolds in miniplug thing aren't yet.
About half the jack-o-lantern seeds have appeared. Turks Turban ones also appearing. PSB too.

Getting started.

Well, I'm having a nightmare with the i'net connection, so this is later in the day than I'd hoped, so I'll be quick.
Basically, this is going (probably) to be a sort of garden diary in the main. It'll have some pictures and stuff, but it's as much for me as for anyone, as I hope I'll be able to learn next year from this year's mistakes, and I'm more likely to write it down on the computer than in a book! Some of it will be about veg type stuff. Other stuff will be general garden stuff like flowers and cuttings and all that jazz. There might be a couple of 'projects' too (the compost heap springs to mind).

A whistlestop tour of the garden, veg related areas.
The 'main bed' in terms of veg production. (Currently lying empty...)
The carrots and parsnips.
The raspberries and a couple of strawberries.
The pumpkins and squashes beds (with rhubard)
The tubs with courgettes in and bins with spuds in.
The helper.

So there you have it.
I'll add some more photos and maybe update some of these in better light conditions...
As for today's efforts:
Sown French marigold in mini-plug things. Indoors.
Sown French Marigold in a tray. Outdoors.
Planted out butternut squash in bed (6, 3ft apart - about a foot tall)
Weeded.
Sown Jack o lantern pumpkins (10ish) in little pots indoors.
Sown 3 turks turbans (a couple died outside so need replacing)
Sown 3 pots (2 seeds to a pot) of purple sprouting broc. indoors.

And yesterday, as I'm on here:
weeded raspberries.
Watered everything veg related.
Watered roses.
Meant to water lavender but forgot.