Not quite so early as you Wilderbeast, so far today we have planted out our first early potatoes after chitting them for 3 weeks. I think they are called rocket, and we have covered them with mypex just in cast we still have a frost. Last year we planted them out on 15th March, so two weeks earlier this year. I also potted up some salad bowl seedlings which had two leaves on them, hoping they will be ready to plant out in a few weeks time. I also made a herb pot - with sage, thyme & chives with parsley to follow when germinated.
I have just pruned, (rather late) my silver Buddelia in the front garden. I found to my astonishment I have tulips growing in the top of a old compost heap in the far corner - no idea how they got there! Although sunny, the wind was too chilly to stay out for long especially as I don't feel too good today. I'm amazed at your nocturnal gardening @Wilderbeast - especially in East Yorkshire.
Hi @Lizzie27 well I'm a proper Yorkshire lad strong int arm and thick int head !!! Why else would I possibly be gardening at that time. Mind it was glorious to hear the early morning birds waking up and singing
Yesterday it was sunny but cold so i put on 2 pairs of trousers and a fleece jacket on top of my top and planted out more polyanthus and planted up a tub with hyacinths and polyanthus.
It has been a proper Spring day here (particularly this afternoon). What a lovely change . Dug out a couple of somewhat tatty shrubby salvias and a load of weeds and self seeded quaking grass. Also dug out creeping buttercup, a clump of Shasta daisies and some phlox. Divided and potted up the phlox, and also potted up one of the salvias after cutting it down. If it lives, it lives. Also cut back a pyracantha that threatened to have my eye out. One good thing about all the rain we've had, it makes for easy digging.
I’ve been outside!!! Not done loads - just a look, potter and tidy (and cups of tea). It culminated in me tidying my annexe room, which is the way I usually go out to the garden, so it becomes a bit of a dumping ground for shoes, tools and stuff. It’s a start.
Grass mown, birds fed, miscanthus split and moved and weeds removed4 new roses planted so not a bad days work. OH has been tackling the weeds on the allotment, fortunately it can be done without walking on the soil.
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I'm amazed at your nocturnal gardening @Wilderbeast - especially in East Yorkshire.
Dug out a couple of somewhat tatty shrubby salvias and a load of weeds and self seeded quaking grass. Also dug out creeping buttercup, a clump of Shasta daisies and some phlox. Divided and potted up the phlox, and also potted up one of the salvias after cutting it down. If it lives, it lives.
Also cut back a pyracantha that threatened to have my eye out.
One good thing about all the rain we've had, it makes for easy digging.
OH has been tackling the weeds on the allotment, fortunately it can be done without walking on the soil.