Nope still snow laying here but warmed up today so hopefully be gone soon, while I cant do much outside I have been spending my bank balance on plants and added a few more plants to the wishlist. Does that counts as gardening . Bought some Cannas phasion / wyoming / tropicanna black and some petunia double - busy lizzy seeds.
Potted up the last of the peppers sown in the airing cupboard a few week's ago. The padrons are have four true leaves whilst the others have less. Now have over 40 of twenty different sorts .All from a Finish supplier of seeds. Never seen such a list with detailed descriptions and photos of fruit , plus estimated heat.
Most onions an inch high from a windowsill unheated(just house temp ) the deeper sown ones much better.
Will try sowing even deeper next week. Shallow sowing means it seems elongated weak floppy over plants .
Planted up some planters under my kitchen window with saxifrage, daffodils and primulas. I 'investigated' a clump of very overcrowded snowdrops and tease them apart and got 50-60 bulbs which I have placed around the front garden and planters. Feet got too cold to do much more. Collected white echinops seeds. Try again tomorrow.
Still cutting blackthorn suckers, another heap of shreddings to do. Painful stuff, I've had splinters in two knuckles for at least a week, some in my legs and now I've got one in my earlobe.
Spent three hours up my allotment today. Absolutely beautiful day - full sun, light wind and 8 degrees C. In fact I took my coat off. Prepped onion and shallot beds, set up 5 sacks for new pots using home compost, weeded and prepped beds for first lettuce and pettit pois, covering them with cloches. If this weather continues the onion sets will be in within 3 weeks.
Those splinters will fester out eventually Forester and Gardenmaiden, they always do.
I won't let things get out of control though, thanks for the advice. Do you think some Magnesium Sulphate paste would help? on the fingers at least, might be tricky on the back of the earlobe
Posts
Too cold to be in the garden today, did some shopping for mum, paid her a quick visit and then came home to hibernate in front of the fire.
Nope still snow laying here but warmed up today so hopefully be gone soon, while I cant do much outside I have been spending my bank balance on plants and added a few more plants to the wishlist. Does that counts as gardening
. Bought some Cannas phasion / wyoming / tropicanna black and some petunia double - busy lizzy seeds.
Potted up the last of the peppers sown in the airing cupboard a few week's ago. The padrons are have four true leaves whilst the others have less. Now have over 40 of twenty different sorts .All from a Finish supplier of seeds. Never seen such a list with detailed descriptions and photos of fruit , plus estimated heat.
Most onions an inch high from a windowsill unheated(just house temp ) the deeper sown ones much better.
Will try sowing even deeper next week. Shallow sowing means it seems elongated weak floppy over plants .
Just got back from pub , it is freezing , so decided to go to allottment tommrow instead of gardening lots of jobs to do up there
forecast is no rain , fingers crossed
Planted up some planters under my kitchen window with saxifrage, daffodils and primulas. I 'investigated' a clump of very overcrowded snowdrops and tease them apart and got 50-60 bulbs which I have placed around the front garden and planters. Feet got too cold to do much more. Collected white echinops seeds. Try again tomorrow.
Still cutting blackthorn suckers, another heap of shreddings to do. Painful stuff, I've had splinters in two knuckles for at least a week, some in my legs and now I've got one in my earlobe.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Spent three hours up my allotment today. Absolutely beautiful day - full sun, light wind and 8 degrees C. In fact I took my coat off. Prepped onion and shallot beds, set up 5 sacks for new pots using home compost, weeded and prepped beds for first lettuce and pettit pois, covering them with cloches. If this weather continues the onion sets will be in within 3 weeks.
Those blackthorn spines are lethal so take care Nutcutlet and don't get an infection.
Bitterly cold here today with no sun but been for a 8 mile walk instead of gardening.
Get them splinters out soon Nut, they can get itchy real quick.
Those splinters will fester out eventually Forester and Gardenmaiden, they always do.
I won't let things get out of control though, thanks for the advice. Do you think some Magnesium Sulphate paste would help? on the fingers at least, might be tricky on the back of the earlobe
In the sticks near Peterborough