I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Perhaps written by someone like Alan Gould.

Alan
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In article , Alan Holmes alan@holmes-
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I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Perhaps written by someone like Alan Gould.

You mean there's someone else around like that?
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Log onto a competent garden website, join an e-list, or buy a
gardening magazine, and your wish will be granted.
Yes of course we can and do, it is possibly selfish to expect another
list of what to do etc. It just seems better when put together by
someone that we feel that we sort of know :-)
kate

I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Perhaps written by someone like Alan Gould.

Alan
Yes pleeeeese :-)

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:47:07 -0000, "Alan Holmes"
wrote:


I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Perhaps written by someone like Alan Gould.

Alan

The Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk) has been sending out weekly
e-mails on this theme for a while now, to those who register (free).
It does mean you have to tolerate a limited number of 'sales' mails
from the Telegraph, too, but it is easy to recognise and delete those.

VivienB

In article ,
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:

For example, this year is over a month later in gardening terms
than the two previous ones, at least away from the warm, wet west
and the deep south.



Not sure I agree. In my neck of the woods - Herts - last year was *much*
later than the year before. I have a clear marker for the march - may
2001 period because that's when my mum was terminally ill. She got to
see a lot of things that arrived much later the following year.

This year seems closer to last year and nowhere near 2001.

--
"No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does.
So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come.
You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts.
That's when you find out who you are."

In article , Ian Cundell writes:
| In article ,
| (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
|
| For example, this year is over a month later in gardening terms
| than the two previous ones, at least away from the warm, wet west
| and the deep south.
|
| Not sure I agree. In my neck of the woods - Herts - last year was *much*
| later than the year before. I have a clear marker for the march - may
| 2001 period because that's when my mum was terminally ill. She got to
| see a lot of things that arrived much later the following year.
|
| This year seems closer to last year and nowhere near 2001.

Yes, perhaps it was a bad example. Last year was odd, in that it
started to warm up very early, and then stayed cool and wet for ages.
So when do we count its start from?

This year, we have actually had some extended (if mild) frosts, and
still are having them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email:
Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679

In article ,
Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
"mandy thomas" writes:
| I'd also like to see something like this, but isn't one of the problems that
| even within the UK there is quite a wide variation in temperatures and
| seasonal changes, so it would be hard to give advice appropriate for all?

Actually, this is a FPM (Frequently Posted Myth). There is relatively
little variation within the UK, though there is enough that simple
advice like that has to be modified for location.

I don't think this is a myth at all. I was talking to my Dad (in Cornwall)
on March 16th, and apparently their daffodils have been out for a month
now. Ours haven't really got started up here (in Clackmannanshire).

So if you try giving advice about what to do about leftover daffs
after flowering, you're immediately getting a difference of several weeks.

Sharon

In article ,
(Sharon Curtis) writes:
|
| | I'd also like to see something like this, but isn't one of the problems that
| | even within the UK there is quite a wide variation in temperatures and
| | seasonal changes, so it would be hard to give advice appropriate for all?
|
| Actually, this is a FPM (Frequently Posted Myth). There is relatively
| little variation within the UK, though there is enough that simple
| advice like that has to be modified for location.
|
| I don't think this is a myth at all. I was talking to my Dad (in Cornwall)
| on March 16th, and apparently their daffodils have been out for a month
| now. Ours haven't really got started up here (in Clackmannanshire).
|
| So if you try giving advice about what to do about leftover daffs
| after flowering, you're immediately getting a difference of several weeks.

I didn't say that there is no difference, but that it is a myth that
there is quite a wide one. It is typically LESS than the variation
between years. Mine haven't really started, either, though ones in
less cold gardens have.

And remember that you are comparing close to the extremes of the UK
with Cornwall and Clackmannanshire. To be fair, you need to compare
close to extreme years.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email:
Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679

In article ,
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:

his year seems closer to last year and nowhere near 2001.

Yes, perhaps it was a bad example. Last year was odd, in that it
started to warm up very early, and then stayed cool and wet for ages.
So when do we count its start from?

This year, we have actually had some extended (if mild) frosts, and
still are having them.


Yeah and a near complete absence of serious rain, which prompted my
question about my new birches elsewhere here (when to start watering
given the mild frost BUT lack of, so to speak, pre-supplied water).

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"No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does.
So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come.
You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts.
That's when you find out who you are."

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I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Log onto a competent garden website, join an e-list, or buy a
gardening magazine, and your wish will be granted.

Janet

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

Actually, this is a FPM (Frequently Posted Myth). There is relatively
little variation within the UK, though there is enough that simple
advice like that has to be modified for location.

What there is, is immense variation year to year, which is why the
magazines, television programs and so on are such tripe. If they
write their "What to do this month" more than a month in advance,
it will be wrong more often than not.

For example, this year is over a month later in gardening terms
than the two previous ones, at least away from the warm, wet west
and the deep south.

It's all very well giving good advice to others, but there's nothing
like setting an example, so it might be a better idea for contributors
to do a regular spot on what they had actually done in their gardens in
the previous week or so. Just a brief resume would do, i.e. planted
onion sets, cleaned greenhouse glass, pruned lavatera etc. etc., then
others could take up any points on which they wanted more information.
It would be topical, up to date and about practical gardening in action.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

In article ,
Alan Gould wrote:

It's all very well giving good advice to others, but there's nothing
like setting an example, so it might be a better idea for contributors
to do a regular spot on what they had actually done in their gardens in
the previous week or so. Just a brief resume would do, i.e. planted
onion sets, cleaned greenhouse glass, pruned lavatera etc. etc., then
others could take up any points on which they wanted more information.
It would be topical, up to date and about practical gardening in action.

I agree with that. I have cleaned half my polytunnel, finished off
the autumn and spring pruning, and planted broad beans. If I had got
around to it, I would have sown some carrots etc., but it is still
a bit cold for much else in my chilly garden.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email:
Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679

I agree with that. I have cleaned half my polytunnel, finished off
the autumn and spring pruning, and planted broad beans. If I had got
around to it, I would have sown some carrots etc., but it is still
a bit cold for much else in my chilly garden.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,

well today I planted some roses and started to rake the lawn, got tired
of that game and decided to go and hire a machine to do it for me, oh, I
forgot I had a good bonfire.
Kate :-)

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In article , Alan Holmes alan@holmes-
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I'd like to see a 'What to do this week/month' article.

Perhaps written by someone like Alan Gould.

You mean there's someone else around like that?

No, I have a feeling you are unique!(:-)

Alan
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