Bits & Bobs

Many small jobs done yesterday!

In the garden:
- Reused a polystyrene container (from a delivery of perishables) as a planter. It now contains 3 tomato plants, 8 lettuces and 2 marigolds.
- Filled four spare patio planters with cauliflower and marigolds.
- Planted 4 gladioli and 3 dahlias behind the new lawn.
- Planted an unidentified plant in the non-lawn part of the front garden, in a space vacated by something that died. It's a cutting from a shrub I wanted to save before ripping everything out of the front garden last year.

In the allotment:
- Planted out the leaf beet and protected it with bottle cloches.
- Planted one lonely broccoli plat and made it a fleece tent to keep the flutterbyes off.
- Netted the swede to stop the dratted pigeons from eating the tops.
- Planted one each of courgette and squash, next to the broad beans.
- Decided to remove all the broad beans and start again, away from the garlic which has a touch of rust. The BB are covered with rust and I don't want it to spread any further!
- Sprayed the blackfly with soapy water.

Today I got soaked whilst putting up guttering on the cat-run and directing the downpipe into a water butt.