just made my 1st ever hanging baskets - Plants

nivlac

09/03/2013 at 20:58

just made my 1st ever hanging baskets now I am not sure where to store them due to the cold weather coming, this is my 1st ever attempt at any flower growing so I don???t know what to expect, any advice would be gratefully received thanks, cal

sotongeoff

09/03/2013 at 21:00

When you say made-do you mean you have planted them up?-if so with what plants exactly?

nivlac

09/03/2013 at 21:12

Sweet Williams trailing fushia, sweet pea and mini trailing petunias

sotongeoff

09/03/2013 at 21:17

Petunias and fuchsia plants cannot go outside yet-they are not hardy-not until the beginning of May at the earliest

Sorry but this is a big mistake

nivlac

09/03/2013 at 21:22

oh dear!! lol 1st attempt fail then woops

lynda d

09/03/2013 at 21:37

maybe you can just keep them inside hung up, keep watering them and just wait untill the weather gets much better next year you will learn from this what i have done is bought myself a little jotter book and wrote things in when( planted and put out and how they did) i had trouble last year trying to do hanging chery toms and with having a stroke didnt seem to get what i was trying to do/ but i had some awful comments back some peaple for get there are new LEARNING gardeners out here any way hope you have a bit of look with your planting .

The Manic Slughunter:)

09/03/2013 at 21:42

We gardeners are so impatient aren't we lol.. I'm attemtping a courgette plant in my greenhouse at the moment, its growing really well but I may be stumped when it comes to the pollinating maybe put them in the greenhouse for a while if you have one? or conservatory? If not could nivelac re-pot them stongeoff and keep them going until Spring eventually arrives?...Good idea Elsie123, I bought a little notebook, complete with pen...but always forget to write it down my kids think I'm mad because I write the date planted on the pot labels, colour etc., ah youth...no idea eh they'll get it eventually

sotongeoff

09/03/2013 at 21:45

nivlac-

-all is not lost presumably you can "unplant" them-put them back in pots-keep those frost free and replant nice healthy plants in a few weeks.

Verdun

09/03/2013 at 21:53

Niviac, it is far too early to plant up with those plants...they need summer warmth and good light. If you can keep them indoors I would cut them back to make them bushy. There are plants for this time of the year you can use......pansies, violas,ivy, . Dont feel dis spirited though or discouraged. We have all made mistakes...growing in the wrong soil or putting plants in the wrong places....and I have been one of the worst. First attempts rarely tick all the boxes but we learn from them. I bet you will have a fantastic display in summer. Trailing plants like surfinias, verbenas, pelargoniums will prob be better.

nivlac

09/03/2013 at 22:11

Thanks for all the comments I will defiantly learn from it and keep trying, we are hoping to buy our 1st bought house soon and I want to learn now to have a garden I can enjoy in the future when we do eventually buy it

sotongeoff

09/03/2013 at 22:13

nivlac

Could I suggest get some reading material-ask questions on here first-people are only too willing to help-we all started somewhere

nivlac

09/03/2013 at 22:14

Verdun errrr this might show how new to this I am CUT THEM BACK? Does that mean leave them in the basket and cut the stalks down, I am very new with no experience other than what I have tried to learn from Google

nivlac

09/03/2013 at 22:17

I don???t really get time to read with 3 kids and a 60 hour a week job the best I have is Google in-between everything else going off, I did think I had researched the baskets but I must have misread or miss understood something!!!

Bunny ...

09/03/2013 at 22:25

Nivlac it's just our weather at the moment is a bit cold that's all . Some start off plants, seeds, etc now but in heated greenhouses etc.
I'm on Scottish border and can't plant out until well into June so have to wait or grow inside the house on windowsills.

If you can unplant your baskets back into pots and keep plants indoors and cozy better, if not can you take baskets inside house , patio door floor , window sills if basket will sit... They just need more warm yet and week ahead isn't warm , don't want you to lose your plants .

Don't worry about garden words/jargon/language yet , ask questions ... We range from absolute no idea to expert on here , welcome to the gardeners

sotongeoff

09/03/2013 at 22:28

Google just gives general advice and a lot of it is USA based

This forum is a much better source of information

Bunny ...

09/03/2013 at 22:33

...just ask for Geoff

Busy-Lizzie

09/03/2013 at 22:54

May I just add that Sweet Williams (which are biennials) are really better planted in the garden than in a hanging basket. They are hardy and can go outside in a flower bed now, but they flower in early summer and won't carry on through summer to autumn like petunias and other half hardy annuals.

Mummy Muddy Paws

09/03/2013 at 23:02

They might survive inside a cold frame or plastic greenhouse (or conventional greenhouse), if covered with fleece at night. We're due some nasty weather, I'm not sowing anything until April.

Better to sow/plant later & hope your plants will catch up, rather than sow early and loose everything to a hard frost.

Patience is a virtue, but it comes very, very hard and we all learn from our mistakes.

Don't be discouraged, you'll get it right next time.

Brumbull

10/03/2013 at 06:41

Morning nivlac

Right ! lets start off a bit positive, yes you may now be aware you are a little advanced in preparing your hanging baskets but all is not lost, have you got a frost free area ? if you have and it has some natural daylight even better if not you cannot allow these plants to be left outside (especially current weather) this is not to say if the temperature is NOT freezing they can go outside in the day but be careful and check your thermometer ( the local weather people dont always get it right ) so check, so if you have a frost free area with some natural light (more light the better) you will be okay until at least the end of next month, once temperatures improve gets these plants outside ....... DONT moddly coodle them.

Brumbull

10/03/2013 at 06:46

Mummy Muddy Paws wrote (see)

They might survive inside a cold frame or plastic greenhouse (or conventional greenhouse), if covered with fleece at night. We're due some nasty weather, I'm not sowing anything until April.

Better to sow/plant later & hope your plants will catch up, rather than sow early and loose everything to a hard frost.

Patience is a virtue, but it comes very, very hard and we all learn from our mistakes.

Don't be discouraged, you'll get it right next time.

Well said MMP