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what jobs done over easter.
barbury gardener
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Hi what have people done over the weekend, i managed to get some french dwarf beans in but have covered with a fleece as still cold in wiltshire, seed looking slow in the Polly tunnel cos lettuce coming though and rocket looking well, onion sets covered over outside slowly growing.
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plant everlasting sweet peas,dug up some yellow celandines growing in the wrong place,water new plants,potted Camellia into new big pot and then turned blue with the cold,me that is.
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No, not quite true. I took the lids off the babies in the unheated propagators in the morning and put them back in the evening.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've finally sown most of those seeds which don't require a lot of warmth into trays and modules, about a month later than I would normally have done! Also planted 60 broad beans into small pots in the GH and finally planted tomato seeds into modules in windowsill propagators in the south-facing front room bay (they're usually up in 4 days as it's so warm in there, after which they'll go into the cooler conservatory for a while.) Hoping that by the time the toms are ready to be transferred from modules to small pots that the weather will have turned and they can grow-on uninterrupted in the GH with maximum light, otherwise I'll have run out of space in the conservatory, which is still full of potted-on perennial plug plants which can't go outside yet as it's too blummin cold (-5.6C at 6am on Sunday morning!)
Well, that's how the "plan" is going so far..
Went to the glassery (what ever you call them) and brought some glass for my poor greenhouse. 9 panes had been smashed by the winter wind. I also planted my peas, onion and lettuce seeds (A tad late??!) they are now sitting comfortably in the spare bedroom windowsill where its nice and toasty.
Not much other than continue to move snow off plants. Hoping that the weather changes soon as I am running out of space in the house and greenhouse.
Thanks folks some interesting feedback, no snow here in wiltshire, sunny now i have come in from garden, at least the sun will warm the polytunnel a bit.
Barbary gardener, are your French dwarf beans in a polytunnel? I hope so, they aren't frost proof. But would that be warm enough at night? I live in SW France and I don't sow them outside until May or 2nd half April in the greenhouse. Our frosts are usually over by end of April.
Well as I was suffering from the lurgy, expeditions into the garden were limited to when my OH wasn't keeping an eye on me , but I did have a quick wander around - my autumn sown broad beans are looking great, very happy with those. The earliest sown row of Swiss Chard has survived the winter (we've even had a couple of pickings off it) but the later sown is looking pathetic. I've looked hard to see if there are any buds swelling on the new pear and gooseberry bushes, but it was probably wishful thinking
In the flower borders some little dark purple Wanda primroses are smiling, as are the wild ones. The blue pulmonarias are budding up, but the white one is only just peeking through the soil. Some tubs of crocuses are looking amazing, and the Fritillary Imperialis is shooting up.
Under the forcing pot, the rhubarb will soon give me a third picking.
And yes, as well as wandering and looking I did actually do something - I've taken some pelargonium cuttings and started my tomato seeds of in a windowsill propagator on the dining room windowsill.
I prophesy that the weather will warm up around 20th April fingers very crossed !!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
20th April not soon enough Dove. I want it now
In the sticks near Peterborough