Dereks Diary Part 2

Went on the allotment this morning.After yesterdays rain I thought it was too wet to carry on digging my potato bed.I decided to put the sweet peas and some other annuals that had finished onto the compost.It took me a while to take all the rings from the sweet peas and I had to cut the tithonia up to go on the compost because they were quite big plants.
Before I went to the allotment this morning I washed the boxes for boxing my chrysanths in the wheelbarrow under the car port.This afternoon I dug up all the chrysanth stools and took them into the greenhouse separated into the different varieties.I removed the canes and put the V clips that had fixed the canes to the horizontal wires away in the shed. The horizontal wires are attached to T posts at the end of the rows. I untied these and tied the wires along the fence at the back.I didn't have time to do any boxing up but because the stools are in the greenhouse I will be able to do them tomorrow if it is raining.

Chrysanth stools in the greenhouse searated into varieties waiting to be boxed up.

Drizzling again much of the day.Usually I have two beds full of chrysanths,4 rows on each.This year I hadn't enough plants so half of the second bed was planted with gladioli. There was one nice one left so I cut it and put it in a vase.I cut the rest of the plants down and dug up the corms then shifted the canes and tied the wires onto the fence like I did on the first bed. I put some old compost on both beds and raked it over.In the greenhouse I potted a few more rooted geranium and regal pelargonium cuttings.

Chrysanth stools boxed up and put on a shelf yesterday

That was kind of them to thank you Derek

Before it was time to go to the hut this morning I took some more hanging baskets down and began potting up plants from them that I want to keep for next year. I finished potting them up this afternoon.We didn't risk going a walk because it looked like rain. I also pulled up some plants from the front garden that had finished.

This morning I potted up some plants from the containers under the carport and removed the plants from other containers.Before I removed the rudbeckia marmalade I collected some of the seeds. I took 6 bags of plants that I had removed from the garden and containers to the allotment and put them on the compost. I then continued digging over the potato bed and nearly finished it. We went for another walk this afternoon.It was dull but it didn't rain.

The last of the spray chrysanths cut this morning

Thanks, Balc2. Went to the allotment this morning and took all the spray chrysanth labels from the top of the canes and tied them onto the stools.Didn't have time to dig them up but I went back for a bit this afternoon and did so and brought them home.Took them into the greenhouse and sorted them into varieties on the greenhouse floor.Hopefully I will box them up tomorrow.
I have also emptied two more hanging baskets and potted some plants from them.