Weekend plans

JOBS TO BE DONE: 8-Nov 2025

9 to 10am followed by coffee and chat.

It’s starting to feel like Summer. Thanks to the watering team who tended the chard, eggplant and rocket seedlings planted last week. Thanks too to our pruning team who did a great job keeping the lime and elderberry trees under control.

Jobs outside the beds

1. Fertilising: Drench the strawberry plants with some home made fertiliser…Add some worm castings and molasses to the white bucket of dechlorinated water. Our citrus trees are greedy feeders. Make up a “combo” of horticultural charcoal, chicken manure and cow manure in the black tub. Rake the gum leaves away from under the Tahitian LIme then sprinkle the “combo”  lightly around the tree at the drip line. Then mulch with wood chips and water in. Cumquat, Lemon and Makrut Lime can also be given a light dusting of the “combo” after removing gum leaves, and, in the case of the lemon new raspberry shoots. Lightly mulch with pea straw. Water in.

2. Pest & Disease watch

3. Weed Control: Remove gum leaves from the paths and place in the green bin.

4. Tend compost bins, worm farms & dog bowl.

5. Pots: Plant some Jerusalem Artichokes and Ginger in the pots at the gate as well as some flowers in the pot above the tap

6. Seed saving: Collect some Calendula seeds (collect when brown) 

Beds

Arbor - 1 Plant some Lebanese Cucumber seedlings. Bed in with Sea Sol.

Bed - 1 Remove chard. Add a little cow manure then plant chilli seedlings. Also plant some more Lebanese Eggplants  Mulch with pea straw. Use Sea Sol to settle new plants.

A - 2 Remove Sweet Pea then plant Lebanese Cucumber seedlings. Settle as above.

B - 2 Drench Basil plants with fertiliser made in the white bucket. Remove Celery plants then, add some sheep manure and plant Parsley seedlings.

A - 3 

B - 3 Harvest beans

A - 4 Remove sweet Pea and plant Lebanese Cucumber seedlings.

B - 4 Harvest Kale, Spigariello, Lettuce and Land Cress for your own use.

A - 5 

B- 5 Remove Parsley and Flanders Poppies. The next crop is corn which likes to grow in soil enriched with organic matter. Topdress the bed with chicken,and cow manures. Then cover this with pea straw mulch.

A - 6 

B - 6 Drench the young Chard and Rocket seedlings with fertiliser in the white bucket.

Tend compost bins and worm farms 👨‍🌾