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Easter is here and we are still freezing our najers off.
Nowt to speak of in the greenhouse either.(seed wise) Good Friday is the time to sow/plant potatoes they say. I am beginning to lose confidence now, this second year without. Baz |
Who has got what veg. in.
On 30/03/2013 16:56, Baz wrote:
Easter is here and we are still freezing our najers off. Nowt to speak of in the greenhouse either.(seed wise) Good Friday is the time to sow/plant potatoes they say. I am beginning to lose confidence now, this second year without. Baz Nowt here, still waiting for the snow to go! |
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Who has got what veg. in.
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:56:36 GMT, Baz wrote:
Easter is here and we are still freezing our najers off. Nowt to speak of in the greenhouse either.(seed wise) Good Friday is the time to sow/plant potatoes they say. I am beginning to lose confidence now, this second year without. Baz First earlies in bins in the greenhouse (Maris Bard), now showing. Various flavours of Tomato (including Ferline F1 which look quite strong and Roma which have grown like weeds) on just about every windowsill that I can get away with and on some that I can't. Aubergines germinated, Okra germinated (after only two days), various Chillis up, again on windowsills but suffering through lack of light I guess. Cabbages up indoors and being hardened off in the porch. Peas in under tunnel cloches and a small number of seedlings propagated inside are now out. Broad beans in but no signs yet. Haven't looked at the carrots (again under cloches) for a week or so. Some Spring Cabbages that I planted from seedlings last year are making a comeback after getting a severe beaking. They are now under some home grown crop cages made from cloche hoops and wire mesh. Keeps the cats and the foxes off too. Rhubarb (Timperley Early) showed but got frosted to hell and back. The proposed outdoor potato patch for this year is still a bit like Paschendale. Must redeploy a roll-out path so that I can get on to the soil and extract the Bluebells that escaped my depredations last season. I have a single row of Garlic that I put in under cloches during the nice spell we had a few weeks ago. All appear to have survived. All but one of my Acer Japonicas appear to have survived. 'Er indoors has sown some stuff in her side of the garden, probably too early but we'll see. Four Apple seedlings (from pips of uncertain parentage) have made it through the winter and are content in the greenhouse. Regards JonH |
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Who has got what veg. in.
"Baz" wrote
Easter is here and we are still freezing our najers off. Nowt to speak of in the greenhouse either.(seed wise) Good Friday is the time to sow/plant potatoes they say. I am beginning to lose confidence now, this second year without. Did intend to plant the early potatoes, shallots and some onion sets but the ground is still too cold so I'll hold off for now. Got my peas in guttering but they have been in there over three weeks and nothing showing, it's just too cold. Got onion seedlings coming on in the greenhouse. Everything else will have to wait. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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Who has got what veg. in.
"kay" wrote in message ... Tomato seedlings in the bathroom. Garden still largely covered by snow and ponds by ice. -- kay Yup, my Alicante have popped up to check out the world in my new enclosed front porchway. Still sub-zero in the glasshouse every night but some overwintered leeks are doing just fine in there. Pete |
Who has got what veg. in.
On 30/03/2013 16:56, Baz wrote:
Easter is here and we are still freezing our najers off. Nowt to speak of in the greenhouse either.(seed wise) Good Friday is the time to sow/plant potatoes they say. I am beginning to lose confidence now, this second year without. Baz My potatoes are chitted, but it's still far too frosty overnight to risk planting them. I don't have a greenhouse, so I can't get ahead of the season in that way. I'll just have to sit it out. Haven't even dug over our excuse for a veg patch due to injury last year and grim weather ever since. I was going to start off some tomatoes, but simply haven't got room. Maybe I'll take a chance with some runner beans if the weather improves. -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote ...
"Baz" wrote Easter is here and we are still freezing our najers off. Nowt to speak of in the greenhouse either.(seed wise) Good Friday is the time to sow/plant potatoes they say. I am beginning to lose confidence now, this second year without. Did intend to plant the early potatoes, shallots and some onion sets but the ground is still too cold so I'll hold off for now. Got my peas in guttering but they have been in there over three weeks and nothing showing, it's just too cold. Got onion seedlings coming on in the greenhouse. Everything else will have to wait. Tested the temperature of the soil on the allotment today, even in the sunshine the temperature about 2 inches down was under 40°F so no point planting anything. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
Who has got what veg. in.
Roger Tonkin wrote:
Nothing in the ground here this year. Got garlic planted last Oct/Nov and purple sprouting is manfully trying to sprout. I have a white sprouting broccoli in the greenhouse that is starting to sprout away very well. Window sills are full of tomatoes, courgettes, butternut + sweetcorn, plus a few aubergines are making an effort (but won't get anywhere, they never do) |
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Sown tomatoes, pomadora, orange paruche and usual stuff, all growing far
too quick indoors but cold greenhouse living up to its name!! germinated sugar snap peas but so cold have given them to brother who has allotment in Shoreham, even there it's parky. Lovely sun from behind a window, outside bitter wind........ Amazingly mixed salvia seeds and also exochorda and chicoriuym came up quite quickly and considering putting them in greenhouse on top of sand with heated coil thing. Ground too cold to dig really and don't need much encouragement to down tools and go inside!! Still got 324 packets of seeds to sow (OK I did go made with ordering and also with RHS and AGA seed order) Potatoes really need putting out but not sure.............. What's the month ahead weather forecast? says 9 in my car but it feel like -2 -- Janet T. Amersham |
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On 02/04/2013 12:15, Granity wrote:
kay;980066 Wrote: Oh good! I thought I was being foolish having purple sprouting in the greenhouse (but I had the space, and it seemed the best defence against pigeons) I'm seriously considering trying some runner beans in the greenhouse this year, put the containers on the bottom of the staging and removing the top trays. Bit of well rotted manure forked into the containers and regular feeding works well outdoors so it should be ok in the greenhouse. You would do better growing climbing French beans inside, they will crop 2 to 3 weeks earlier than runners and being string-less will not go stringy, also you wont have the pollination problems. But watch out for red spider. |
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