I don't get het up bout the weather, nowt i can do about it. But I must admit, the garden is looking gorgeous at the moment, but the veg plots have failed miserably, so next year they will be transformed into perennial planting schemes, with maybe the odd veg. Veg seeds sown in march (peas and broad beans) are only just germinating intermittently. and nothing else is appearing except for a small row of spring onions, which have germinated this year for the first time ever. Do I hear shouts of not too late to sow some more, well it is at my location, as the time limit before autumn starts with me is short. so hey ho. Don't like growing veg as much as perennials anyway.
Well I can't see me getting very many courgettes or chillies this year. I did, however, have my first gorgeously sweet mange tout yesterday evening which I came across when I was checking everything for signs of flowers.
@wintersong..mr borther inlaw is like you.. he gets very low and depressed about end of november and last until march.. he is hard to keep up beat at times.
our vegs not doing to well..only peas and swede look the best.. french beans not grown a cm since planting out.. and the onions have failed this year.. it is getting bad.. i got a letter yesterday to say my free lavenders from last months GW have been delayed until july.. bet it is this weather stunting them too. my day lilly still waiting in bud for the hot sun to come out.. i cant blame it for not wanting to waste it flowers at the moment
and what has flowered is being beaten down by the damn wind. not a good gardening year at all.. i have heard we are going to have nice august and september so ahve cut some things back in hope they will flower again later.
my parsnips seem to be doing okaybeans yellowy not budging runners that is ,got pods on broads swelling but very little content spinach seems immobile then goes to seed,coriander running to seed too .the weeds on the other hand seem to think its wonderful!!!!!!!
My flower borders are looking great, and so are the fruit bushes and cordons (hoping for some sun now to ripen them), but my veg beds are very mixed. I too have good broad beans and parsnips are coming on well. Lettuces are nowhere to be seen as are peas, climbing beans rubbish. Wondering what the taters will be like as the top growth is very lush. The onions though look better than they've ever done. I was just wondering when I should bend over the tops and lo the following day the wind had done it for me!
Just got back from my allotment - very lush. Cut a fine Hispi cabbage and dug new potatoes. Everything is need of a bit of sunshine. Not have to water for a while.
New potatoes here have done okay, just picked our first lot of peas which were lovely but eveything else has been pretty much a failure. Broad bean plants about half the size they normally are, onions pretty much the same size as when planted (although for some reason the garlic is growing okay), spring onions eaten (by slugs?) and carrots failed to germinate at all!! Pretty depressing year to be growing veg.
My garden is so lush I now call it my temperate rain forest. Lots of pruning to do. The strawberry crop has been amazing. Eight ice-cream cartons full put in the freezer for the winter and i am still having them three times a day with cereal, scones and cream or ice-cream. My raised beds are and have been stuffed with veg and flowers for a month now . braod bean crop super, great lettuces and salad leaves and rdishes and spring onions.rainbow chard a great success. I can definitely recommend raised beds for wet seasons. they drain beautifully. I have finished eating my Swift, first early potatoes and they were delicious. Starting on the King Edwards this week as they have been in flower some time. The colour in the garden has been and still is superb, sespecially the Sweet William and the hardy geraniums and phygelius. only thing is I haven't had many meals outside this year, but then one cannot have everything one wants in this life. Stick at it everybody. when you get to my age you will know what to expect from the British weather and how to cope. Painting from your pictures in the winter is great too!
HollieHock, where are you to be out in Tshirt and flip flops, tell us so we can all come and join you!!
Wet again here of course, grey dark skies, shall have to start using my SAD light if this goes on, usually only in autumn and winter, but the condition won't go away without light and sunshine.
Poor food farmers, I feel really worried about crops for them, fear high food prices come autumn - a nusiance for us but a real disaster for them.
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I don't get het up bout the weather, nowt i can do about it. But I must admit, the garden is looking gorgeous at the moment, but the veg plots have failed miserably, so next year they will be transformed into perennial planting schemes, with maybe the odd veg. Veg seeds sown in march (peas and broad beans) are only just germinating intermittently. and nothing else is appearing except for a small row of spring onions, which have germinated this year for the first time ever. Do I hear shouts of not too late to sow some more, well it is at my location, as the time limit before autumn starts with me is short. so hey ho. Don't like growing veg as much as perennials anyway.
Well I can't see me getting very many courgettes or chillies this year. I did, however, have my first gorgeously sweet mange tout yesterday evening which I came across when I was checking everything for signs of flowers.
@wintersong..mr borther inlaw is like you.. he gets very low and depressed about end of november and last until march.. he is hard to keep up beat at times.
our vegs not doing to well..only peas and swede look the best.. french beans not grown a cm since planting out.. and the onions have failed this year.. it is getting bad.. i got a letter yesterday to say my free lavenders from last months GW have been delayed until july.. bet it is this weather stunting them too. my day lilly still waiting in bud for the hot sun to come out.. i cant blame it for not wanting to waste it flowers at the moment
and what has flowered is being beaten down by the damn wind. not a good gardening year at all.. i have heard we are going to have nice august and september so ahve cut some things back in hope they will flower again later.
my parsnips seem to be doing okay
beans yellowy not budging runners that is ,got pods on broads swelling but very little content spinach seems immobile then goes to seed,coriander running to seed too .the weeds on the other hand seem to think its wonderful!!!!!!!
My flower borders are looking great, and so are the fruit bushes and cordons (hoping for some sun now to ripen them), but my veg beds are very mixed. I too have good broad beans and parsnips are coming on well. Lettuces are nowhere to be seen as are peas, climbing beans rubbish. Wondering what the taters will be like as the top growth is very lush. The onions though look better than they've ever done. I was just wondering when I should bend over the tops and lo the following day the wind had done it for me!
Just got back from my allotment - very lush. Cut a fine Hispi cabbage and dug new potatoes. Everything is need of a bit of sunshine. Not have to water for a while.
New potatoes here have done okay, just picked our first lot of peas which were lovely but eveything else has been pretty much a failure. Broad bean plants about half the size they normally are, onions pretty much the same size as when planted (although for some reason the garlic is growing okay), spring onions eaten (by slugs?) and carrots failed to germinate at all!! Pretty depressing year to be growing veg.
And it's raining again now....
My garden is so lush I now call it my temperate rain forest. Lots of pruning to do. The strawberry crop has been amazing. Eight ice-cream cartons full put in the freezer for the winter and i am still having them three times a day with cereal, scones and cream or ice-cream. My raised beds are and have been stuffed with veg and flowers for a month now . braod bean crop super, great lettuces and salad leaves and rdishes and spring onions.rainbow chard a great success. I can definitely recommend raised beds for wet seasons. they drain beautifully. I have finished eating my Swift, first early potatoes and they were delicious. Starting on the King Edwards this week as they have been in flower some time. The colour in the garden has been and still is superb, sespecially the Sweet William and the hardy geraniums and phygelius. only thing is I haven't had many meals outside this year, but then one cannot have everything one wants in this life. Stick at it everybody. when you get to my age you will know what to expect from the British weather and how to cope. Painting from your pictures in the winter is great too!
HollieHock, where are you to be out in Tshirt and flip flops, tell us so we can all come and join you!!
Wet again here of course, grey dark skies, shall have to start using my SAD light if this goes on, usually only in autumn and winter, but the condition won't go away without light and sunshine.
Poor food farmers, I feel really worried about crops for them, fear high food prices come autumn - a nusiance for us but a real disaster for them.