Ah of course, I'm here all impatient to get going in the garden so of course the Met Office would issue snow warnings for Thursday. Oh well, at least it will make a change from rain!
Ashleigh - I wrote off the car and survived. I'm already so much luckier than others!
(Mind you it was only a Vauxhall Nova and thus made out of tin foil)
The snow only looks like it'll be trouble on the high areas and doesn't sound like it'll be hanging around. We need a few cold days to give the garlic a bit of a frost (convinced they'll just be huge bulbs this year as its been so mild) and wake any others up that might need it.
Besides a good layer of snow will slow down my wanting to buy ALL THE PLANTS! Getting quite the list now!
It's been gorgeous here today - a line of washing dry and folded, my new paeony potted up, sweet peas sown (I've said that already) lots of little tidying things done outside - just little things, but also a lot of thinking about how we develop this garden.
It's a good job I got the washing in a few minutes ago, it suddenly started raining at the front of the house, and not at the back for a few minutes, then it decided to move to the back garden so we had rain at the back and not at the front - isn't weather odd?
Yes Clari - I'm considering buying some bags of icecubes and heaping them over the garlic - do you think it'd work?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Its a possibility Dove - just keep the ice cubes in bags my garlic is moist enough already! The ground is so wet the washing line fell over the other day- only had a couple of pillow slips on them!
As far as I'm aware Ashleigh the bulb doesn't divide into the cloves if you don't get a chilly patch of temperature. I don't know how it works (very much a newbie myself) but have read if you have a warm winter you harvest garlic that is just one large clove.
I believe they're still edible just not what you expect to pull from the ground.
Oh verd you are a silly I thought that was funny..... Omg my dead clematis is romping away think it's trying to invade the kitchen!!!!may have to move it into the garden soon..... Well so much for cloches!!!!! 3 lupins 2 under cloches 1 not in cloche..... The two in the cloches have been munched whilst the one not under the cloche is romping away!!!! And on the topic of lupins the seeds ha e germinated (2 days not bad) as have the blak zebra cherry toms!!!! All happening now and then I read Monty's top 10 things and one is don't start too early!!! Whoops.............
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Ah of course, I'm here all impatient to get going in the garden so of course the Met Office would issue snow warnings for Thursday. Oh well, at least it will make a change from rain!
Oh no I was really hoping we'd have a nice gentle slide into a glorious summer.
Ashleigh - I wrote off the car and survived. I'm already so much luckier than others!
(Mind you it was only a Vauxhall Nova and thus made out of tin foil)
The snow only looks like it'll be trouble on the high areas and doesn't sound like it'll be hanging around. We need a few cold days to give the garlic a bit of a frost (convinced they'll just be huge bulbs this year as its been so mild) and wake any others up that might need it.
Besides a good layer of snow will slow down my wanting to buy ALL THE PLANTS! Getting quite the list now!
It's been gorgeous here today - a line of washing dry and folded, my new paeony potted up, sweet peas sown (I've said that already) lots of little tidying things done outside - just little things, but also a lot of thinking about how we develop this garden.
It's a good job I got the washing in a few minutes ago, it suddenly started raining at the front of the house, and not at the back for a few minutes, then it decided to move to the back garden so we had rain at the back and not at the front - isn't weather odd?
Yes Clari - I'm considering buying some bags of icecubes and heaping them over the garlic - do you think it'd work?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all, fulfilling day in the garden in sunshine, but with a very cold wind.
Managed to do a bit of weeding and some general tidying up. Soil is still really claggy and it will be some time before it is dry enough for planting.
The crocusses are all blooming now and the odd early daffodil might be ready soon.
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Its a possibility Dove - just keep the ice cubes in bags my garlic is moist enough already! The ground is so wet the washing line fell over the other day- only had a couple of pillow slips on them!
Why does garlic need frost?
As far as I'm aware Ashleigh the bulb doesn't divide into the cloves if you don't get a chilly patch of temperature. I don't know how it works (very much a newbie myself) but have read if you have a warm winter you harvest garlic that is just one large clove.
I believe they're still edible just not what you expect to pull from the ground.
Oh verd you are a silly I thought that was funny..... Omg my dead clematis is romping away think it's trying to invade the kitchen!!!!may have to move it into the garden soon..... Well so much for cloches!!!!! 3 lupins 2 under cloches 1 not in cloche..... The two in the cloches have been munched whilst the one not under the cloche is romping away!!!! And on the topic of lupins the seeds ha e germinated (2 days not bad) as have the blak zebra cherry toms!!!! All happening now and then I read Monty's top 10 things and one is don't start too early!!! Whoops.............