Weekend plans

JOBS TO BE DONE: 13-Dec 2025

9 to 10am followed by coffee and chat.

Beans and chillies are thriving.

Jobs outside the beds

1. PERILLA/SHISO Transplant 2 volunteer plants into pot.                                

   (1) First volunteer is growing in the ground near the espaliered mulberry tree.  Please remove plants and soil from the smallest of the pots r/h side of the front gate. Refresh with fresh soil/compost mix then transplant the red Japanese Perilla/Shiso growing in the ground nearby.                                 (2) Second volunteer is growing in the ground at the playground fence end of B4. Transplant into the large round pot after moving the ginger plant into the adjacent pot.

2. Fertilise chilli & strawberry plants with Charlie’s Carp 

3. Harvest chillies for your own use.

4. Remove gum leaves from beds and paths.

5. Remove oxalis from paths.

Arbor - 1 Attach cucumber plants to arbor if ready.

Bed - 1 Soil in this bed has lost fertility. Plant dwarf bean seeds in front bed. Fertilise back bed with blood & bone fertiliser.

Arbor - 2 Attach cucumber plants to arbor.

Bed - 2 Plant half of the baby cucumber seedlings along the front of the frame in the centre of the bed.

Arbor - 3 

Bed - 3 Thin radish seedlings

Arbor - 4 Pick sweet pea flowers then remove the plant. Add some compost to the soil there then plant the other half of the baby cucumber seedlings

Bed - 4 Harvest kale for your own use. 

Arbor - 5 Harvest beans that are ready to eat. Attach plants to arbor.

Bed - 5 Drench corn with Charlies Carp liquid fertiliser 

Arbor - 6 Harvest ripe beans and attach plants to arbor.

Bed - 6 Harvest chard for your own use by pinching stalks close to base of plant, leaving at least 3 leaves on the plant. There are 2 small clumps of germinated chard plants which can be delicately lifted, separated and transplanted throughout the 2 beds.

Tend compost bins and worm farms 👨‍🌾