Welcome Hours go by. I've always used toilet roll tubes for sweet peas but only in plastic bag lined beer boxes (well the men in the house leave so many lying around). It's great to be able to plant the whole thing out without root disturbance but always either bury the rim of cardboard or tear it off. It acts like a wick taking moisture away from the plant.
Congratulations Yvie. Must go and look up your petunia
Welcome Hours Go By I planted 4 kinds of Lobelia on the 9th March and the germinated 16th March, so only took a week but it really felt like alot longer than that (but fist time doing anything from seed so i think i was checking it like twice a day if not 3 times a day lol!)
I hope everyone is having a good day, My working day is almost finished which i am releaved about, todays been a LONG day!
Yesterday put up the second 5 tier green house for seedling, which went in today
Been out in the garden a bit cutting bits near the washing line away - trees, holly and rose bits from next door and our side now hand wrist sore from prickles as they kept getting me but big pile of bits to cut up now to go into the garden waste bin
Welcome, Hours go by. I wonder what your "name" will get abbreviated to... I tend to be known as Liri on here as it's less of a mouthful.
I always cheat with the little bedding I grow, and buy a little pot of seedlings from the GC to grow on, since I have nowhere warm and light to germinate things this time of year. (It's often cheaper than buying a packet of seeds, too!) Later in the season the growhouse is full of hardy things requiring less cosseting (primulas, trees & shrubs, wild flowers and such), mostly grown from seed I've collected myself. I think it must be addictive
We had snow overnight too, though it's now disappeared from the hilltops as well as lower down. Now it's lovely and sunny, but the wind is howling down the chimney. Just a little reminder that here in the pennines it might be premature to assume it's spring...
Yvie, actually my little granddaughter is too young to realise that if she shares something with someone, she has less for herself. I don't suppose it'll be very long before she cottons on to that though! She'll be one next week, bless her...
Right. The stairs are covered with cat hair and even I can't leave the cleaning any longer...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Have been busy today, but not in the garden Finally got around to painting our bedroom Have had the paint for approx. 2 years It is rather spesh paint and doesn't smell, and dries really fast This means that I can see the patchy job I have done Oh well, second coat tomorrow
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Looking good John
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Welcome Hours go by
. I've always used toilet roll tubes for sweet peas but only in plastic bag lined beer boxes (well the men in the house leave so many lying around). It's great to be able to plant the whole thing out without root disturbance but always either bury the rim of cardboard or tear it off. It acts like a wick taking moisture away from the plant.
Congratulations Yvie
. Must go and look up your petunia
Welcome Hours, They were put into a heated propogator on the conservatory window ledge on 19th March. They are just showing through the compost.
Oo er Verdun, Ive just caught up with Poldark, didn't you do well
Welcome hours go by.
Welcome Hours Go By
I planted 4 kinds of Lobelia on the 9th March and the germinated 16th March, so only took a week but it really felt like alot longer than that (but fist time doing anything from seed so i think i was checking it like twice a day if not 3 times a day lol!)
I hope everyone is having a good day, My working day is almost finished which i am releaved about, todays been a LONG day!
Hello all
Yesterday put up the second 5 tier green house for seedling, which went in today
Been out in the garden a bit cutting bits near the washing line away - trees, holly and rose bits from next door and our side now hand wrist sore from prickles as they kept getting me but big pile of bits to cut up now to go into the garden waste bin
rather windy out today
Hello all!
Welcome, Hours go by. I wonder what your "name" will get abbreviated to... I tend to be known as Liri on here as it's less of a mouthful.
I always cheat with the little bedding I grow, and buy a little pot of seedlings from the GC to grow on, since I have nowhere warm and light to germinate things this time of year. (It's often cheaper than buying a packet of seeds, too!) Later in the season the growhouse is full of hardy things requiring less cosseting (primulas, trees & shrubs, wild flowers and such), mostly grown from seed I've collected myself.
I think it must be addictive 
We had snow overnight too, though it's now disappeared from the hilltops as well as lower down. Now it's lovely and sunny, but the wind is howling down the chimney. Just a little reminder that here in the pennines it might be premature to assume it's spring...
Yvie, actually my little granddaughter is too young to realise that if she shares something with someone, she has less for herself. I don't suppose it'll be very long before she cottons on to that though! She'll be one next week, bless her...
Right. The stairs are covered with cat hair and even I can't leave the cleaning any longer...
Hi all, brrrrr very cold here all day.
Hi Hours, pleased to meet you.
Yes Verdun you did, nice bare chest view
Been rose pruning, but it rained.
Going to eat soon and watch TV in front of woodburner.
I wonder how Dove is today.
Evening all
Have been busy today, but not in the garden
Finally got around to painting our bedroom 
Have had the paint for approx. 2 years 
It is rather spesh paint and doesn't smell, and dries really fast 
This means that I can see the patchy job I have done 
Oh well, second coat tomorrow 