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First things first: park up and unload. (At the moment, the trug usually contains two litres of filtered water for the plants to drink plus 1.5l of water for me to drink plus a small watering can plus any other bits and pieces that seemed wise.) Everything goes onto the picnic table under the cherry tree; plant-drink and watering can move in to the greenhouse to warm up. (See how the cherries are progressing.)
Check the temperature. Check how wilty the tomatoes are and coo over them with mild concern. Check to see if anything else has germinated. Use the can in the greenhouse to water the lemon and the tomatoes in the bed. Gently fondle any new tomato flowers.
Spend the next... while... traipsing back and forth (currently, mostly on the Tramper) to the water tank. Water: the peas/beans/squash (two beds); the tomatoes and onions (one bed); the shallots and garlic (two small beds); optionally the Ribes; and fill the can up one last time to go back into the greenhouse to (1) warm up and (2) provide humidity.
(Intermittently get distracted by checking plants and pulling up bindweed and and and.)
Weeding: anywhere from "a few token bits of bindweed" to "a full bucket and then some". I'm trying to alternate maintenance (on beds under cultivation) and progress (on beds to bring into cultivation).
Infrastructure: tweaking the fruit cage or the greenhouse (or the waterbutt). Setting up (or maintaining) tomato (or pea or bean) supports. Wrangling a raised bed some (filling in; constructing). Processing the products of the compost bin.
Eventually, when all's said and done, feeding the bin. But: watering, plus at least a little weeding, plus at least a little infrastructure, with watering first and the other two as the mood takes me.
Check the temperature. Check how wilty the tomatoes are and coo over them with mild concern. Check to see if anything else has germinated. Use the can in the greenhouse to water the lemon and the tomatoes in the bed. Gently fondle any new tomato flowers.
Spend the next... while... traipsing back and forth (currently, mostly on the Tramper) to the water tank. Water: the peas/beans/squash (two beds); the tomatoes and onions (one bed); the shallots and garlic (two small beds); optionally the Ribes; and fill the can up one last time to go back into the greenhouse to (1) warm up and (2) provide humidity.
(Intermittently get distracted by checking plants and pulling up bindweed and and and.)
Weeding: anywhere from "a few token bits of bindweed" to "a full bucket and then some". I'm trying to alternate maintenance (on beds under cultivation) and progress (on beds to bring into cultivation).
Infrastructure: tweaking the fruit cage or the greenhouse (or the waterbutt). Setting up (or maintaining) tomato (or pea or bean) supports. Wrangling a raised bed some (filling in; constructing). Processing the products of the compost bin.
Eventually, when all's said and done, feeding the bin. But: watering, plus at least a little weeding, plus at least a little infrastructure, with watering first and the other two as the mood takes me.