The 2013 Gardening Thread......

[*chez*]

What you are growing?

[captainbovine]

CG, no sign of my seeds yet:-(

😞

[chickengrandma-2008]

??????  I forgot about them!  I've only got one address for you haven't I?  I wonder what's happened to them then?  Even if the first class stamp wasn't enough, (but I'm sure it would be) they'd still deliver them and charge you, wouldn't they.

If you don't get them by early next week I'll send some more.

Perhaps the drug squad has got them?  :^O

[ilove2patch]

You did send to the new address CG?

[chickengrandma-2008]

I think so, I'll show you which one I used.  Look out for an email in a minute.

[captainbovine]

CG, I've emailed you proper mail with my new addy, is this the one you used?

[1311rose]

Too cold to plant anything here.  No point starting any seeds yet either.

I'm fed up :_|with cold weather

Still trying to work out what I need to do to post replies on my new laptop (using the old one for this) - just in case anyone is wondering where I'd got to!

[bitsnknots]

Too cold here as well.  I've had to de-ice the car for the last few days.  Hope that the weather picks up soon 'cos there's plenty to do.

[captainbovine]

I bought a buddlea yesterday for the bottom of the garden, the lovely dark purple one davidii.

my friend bought a dwarf white one, now that's a good idea, could put that in a tub on the patio....wouldn't that be nice?;-)

[1311rose]

I love buddleis, so do the butterflies.

Still very cold here and although we have no snow (at the moment) its too cold to do gardening.

I've managed to sort out my new laptop glitch and can now post on here using it

[petitecalicocat]

I cant find my garden under the snow , dread to think whats happened to my Spring bulbs 😞

[1311rose]

Well I've made a start.  Got my spuds chitting and I've sown some beans and courgettes (indoors of course) to start them off 

Had a recce at a local garden centre today as they have a 20% offer coming up in a few days.  There is a nice cold frame which would fit over one of the raised beds that I have my eye on!

[we*love*austria*]

Have just put up the greenhouse bought for me by my wife

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~149009~Walk-In-Greenhouse

and put in the cuttings I have tried to overwinter and some plantlets ready to be pricked out into seed trays to grow them on before planting into the garden!

[chickengrandma-2008]

Hubby said today that his peas are just coming through in his new raised beds he's been building over the winter.:-D

[*elphaba*]

Finally sowed my broad beans the other day, and green peas, cos lettuce and onions and tomatos under cover today.  Parsnips are late in - tomorrow hopefully. 

My purple sprouting has taken a massive hit 😞   I spent hours defending it against the dreaded white butterflies but the weather has been as much a problem.  It might come up with a few feeds if the weather picks up

[kaeptm]

I've been itching to get out in the garden and make a start. Last weekend I cleared dried up remnents from last "summer" and cut the hedge.

This weekend I was going to plant indoors some tomato, courgette and french bean seeds. I got as far as putting the soil in the pots and that was it. 

I can recall seeing a documentary about planting by the moon and have just googled. The 11 April 2013 is a good day to plant fruiting vegs. So I'm waiting until Thursay. It may be a bit daft, but alot of these old ways were used for good reason. I can't do any worse than last year anyway 🙂

I'm having a new garden fence put up tomorrow, once that's done I plan to plant some flower seeds and summer bulbs or is it still to cold for that? I'm in Kent, it has been a bit warmer than it was, but still cold and sometimes frosty.

[*chez*]

I've been given a whole bag of very out of date seed.... so I'm trying it on  damp kitchen paper

to see if it will germinate before sowing it in pots. It's still very cold here so haven't set much off in the grrenhouse yet ( no heat)

[captainbovine]

we are forecast rain on Thursday so I may put some of my shrubs I've bought, in the ground tomorrow, I've been hardening them off for nearly a week, is that long enough?

they seem to have been growing a bit, they're only small, but they've got to go in sometime!!!

I may have bought too many, I just see plants and think "I can find somewhere for that" this is how I end up with so many tubs:^O

[chickengrandma-2008]

Our forecast was for an end to the cold weather and frosts now.  Wet though.:-D

[petitecalicocat]

I planted some 'Mini Daffodils ' & didnt expect them to be so small , they are just 5 inch high very cute though .  Are they supposed to be this small ?:|

[bitsnknots]

We've got all kinds of plants in flower at the moment.  Both the front and back gardens are looking colourful and we are still waiting for the rest of the tulips and daffodils to flower.