hi Lyn, what seeds did you sow? Did you put them all in little tray or straight into the ground?... I have some poppys I want to sow, but when i go and mulch my garden this weekend, i dont think they'll have much change popping through the organic matter... Is it ok just to sow then in a pot and keep them indoors/outdoors for now?..
Same as doc - not a lot. Too early and too cold for anything much, other than tidying and a bit of pruning of buddleias and clematis.
We'll still have a lot of frost, snowy, sleety or wet windy weather to come too, so getting ahead of oneself is always a mistake. Experience has taught me that, if nothing else
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Can't walk on our grass, you'd just slip over it's so wet. It never drys out and you can never just sit on it.
Pokhim, I have sown various seeds, some perenials left out to catch the last of the cold weather. ..some annuals need kitchen warmth, ....some in the conservatory. I don't have a propagator. Poppies are fussy things, they don't like disturbance so best to sow direct in the ground, however, I do sow mine in pots. If you sow enough your sure to get some survive? Once you have them, they will self seed and take care of their own germination.
I wil only be growing parsnips this year, and will sow direct on the 1st May. gone off growing veg, there's just the two of us and my freezers full from last year. Lots of fruit growing this year though.
soon I will have to pot up the Hellebores and Astrantia seedlings that have been left outside and now growing well. It's never ending?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Every time I walk by the cupboard that stores my box of seeds, I swear I can hear the seeds making noises in their packets, anxious to be tucked comfortably in fresh compost and start growing. I will probably sow some more in the second half of the month. I have sweet peas already growing nicely, pelargoniums and some dahlias. And some parsley and lovage.
I adore end of Feb going into March, the first spring flowers through and all the promise of a long hot summer we never seem to get!!
i'm busy tidying all the borders and getting ahead of those pesky weeds before they get a good foothold.
I have 1 more raised bed to site and fill and by end of March will be sowing/planting my first crops ?
The garden is now coming into it's 4th year since we moved here and still plenty of gaps to fill, will be doing plenty of propagating and perhaps adding a few more purchases this year so spending time happily daydreaming of this years end result.
I'm focusing on actually tidying up my garden a wee bit in preparation for planting stuff out in the next coming months. I'm fairly new to seed sowing but I've just today sowed:
chives, cucamelons, chillies, cosmos, winter greens, lemon, basil and parsley.
I've also just bought some tomato seeds to going to have a go with them. (There's a first time for everything!)
I'll be taking a leaf out of your book Jonesk - weeding will definitely be on my March agenda.
Oh and I'm getting chickens on Sunday - very excited by this as I've never kept chickens before!
Verdun, yes I definitely need to get on with mulching too. I'm trying to create my own compost, but my approach to it is very much trial and error. Hopefully the chickens will help with this though!
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hi Lyn, what seeds did you sow? Did you put them all in little tray or straight into the ground?... I have some poppys I want to sow, but when i go and mulch my garden this weekend, i dont think they'll have much change popping through the organic matter... Is it ok just to sow then in a pot and keep them indoors/outdoors for now?..
Same as doc - not a lot. Too early and too cold for anything much, other than tidying and a bit of pruning of buddleias and clematis.
We'll still have a lot of frost, snowy, sleety or wet windy weather to come too, so getting ahead of oneself is always a mistake. Experience has taught me that, if nothing else
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Can't walk on our grass, you'd just slip over it's so wet. It never drys out and you can never just sit on it.
Pokhim, I have sown various seeds, some perenials left out to catch the last of the cold weather. ..some annuals need kitchen warmth, ....some in the conservatory. I don't have a propagator. Poppies are fussy things, they don't like disturbance so best to sow direct in the ground, however, I do sow mine in pots. If you sow enough your sure to get some survive? Once you have them, they will self seed and take care of their own germination.
I wil only be growing parsnips this year, and will sow direct on the 1st May. gone off growing veg, there's just the two of us and my freezers full from last year. Lots of fruit growing this year though.
soon I will have to pot up the Hellebores and Astrantia seedlings that have been left outside and now growing well. It's never ending?
Every time I walk by the cupboard that stores my box of seeds, I swear I can hear the seeds making noises in their packets, anxious to be tucked comfortably in fresh compost and start growing. I will probably sow some more in the second half of the month. I have sweet peas already growing nicely, pelargoniums and some dahlias. And some parsley and lovage.
Great lot going on
Perki your veg planter sounds good you could add a picture to the pallet thread
Villaverde123 shed sounds a fab and ideal
Today got the bird boxes up in the community garden, lots of digging clearing and first lot of seed sowing in raised bed
Pokhim poppies like poor soils so just don't mulch that area
Hello Verdun bet your grass looks great now after a nice cut
I adore end of Feb going into March, the first spring flowers through and all the promise of a long hot summer we never seem to get!!
i'm busy tidying all the borders and getting ahead of those pesky weeds before they get a good foothold.
I have 1 more raised bed to site and fill and by end of March will be sowing/planting my first crops ?
The garden is now coming into it's 4th year since we moved here and still plenty of gaps to fill, will be doing plenty of propagating and perhaps adding a few more purchases this year so spending time happily daydreaming of this years end result.
I'm focusing on actually tidying up my garden a wee bit in preparation for planting stuff out in the next coming months. I'm fairly new to seed sowing but I've just today sowed:
chives, cucamelons, chillies, cosmos, winter greens, lemon, basil and parsley.
I've also just bought some tomato seeds to going to have a go with them. (There's a first time for everything!)
I'll be taking a leaf out of your book Jonesk - weeding will definitely be on my March agenda.
Oh and I'm getting chickens on Sunday - very excited by this as I've never kept chickens before!
Verdun, yes I definitely need to get on with mulching too. I'm trying to create my own compost, but my approach to it is very much trial and error.
Hopefully the chickens will help with this though!