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the weather
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I am feeling a bit disheartened, plant lovers! We moved to the house we live in now because of its good sized garden. We moved in the late 1990s and I can honestly say the appalling weather has stopped us gardening again and again! How can we fulfil the desire to garden when the weather is SO poor? How do the rest of you gardeners get your "fix"?
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You must have had some good weather in the past 14 years!
you can garden in all but pouring rain or when the ground is frozen.
We have about 4/5 weather threads on the go, perhaps you could pick up some tips from there.
During the bad weather, I tend to sow seeds and plan my garden and order plants online Works for me
I'll check and get my umbrella out!
you have to be patient and wait for that moment,don't be afraid to out in the cold (not the freezing cold) or rain and potter around.Venture out to the garden center and dream and spend time looking at the plants etc and a cup of coffee.Gardening is always different every year a challenge something to create your self ,faults and all,to learn and not get despondent when things go wrong or the weather seems hopeless.
Not much fun for the professional gardener! Should be a busy time.
I'm based in Whitstable Kent, and summer really has been around for a good few weeks now, lovely, especially after not a great summer last year.
I'm very much a beginner gardener, but do spend so much of my time checking the weather, so I can gauge how my plants will be doing.
It hasn't rained for weeks, and there is no sign of rain for the next ten days.
Anyone elses garden getting very dry, and doing lots of pots watering?
It also depends on the planting that's in them, so putting them in a shadier spot during prolonged hot weather can help, especially if your water supply is metered, which I think is the case in a lot of England/Wales, unlike here
I think there is a weather thread @Jack1974, but I don't use it. It should be somewhere in the first few pages of the forum though
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1024067/what-is-your-weather-like-part-5#latest