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It Is Not Spring Yet !!!
sotongeoff
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Nor is winter over-after a nice few days it is set to get bitterly cold and increasingly cloudy during the week with biting easterly winds and some hard night frosts-the good thing is-these will be drying winds with little rain etc-but throw in the chill factor-------- it is not time to get out the shorts yet
Sorry to be all gloomy doomy
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Absolutely. Woke up to a sparkling white world. Brilliant sunshine here at last after days of grey and mist but at the price of a heavy frost over night.
Lets hope for some dry sunny days like today to warm the soil up and take some of the moisture out of it. I went to my allotment yesterday and was almost ankle deep in the soil, it was that wet I think I am going to go for the raised bed option this year as at least these seem to drain better. Can't wait to start planting out my seeds.
Jolly chilly this morning .... Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
-3c in the shed at 9am, +3c outside not long ago.
I'm just desperate to get out & do something!!
Well, we did put up a trellis for the honeysuckle yesterday.
Byee, I'm off out to pull a weed or something......
Totally agree. Having to sit on my hands to stop me opening seed packets, but I'd sooner wait and have everything play catch-up, than to plant out and loose the lot overnight due to a hard frost. I won't be putting my winter woolies away this year till the end of April, as I think we're still due some snow. There are still some berries left on the lower branches of the big rowan at the end of the garden, the blackbirds and fieldfares have eaten most of the berries from the top of the tree.
I HATE snow, it's bloody hard work shoving a pushchair through the stuff. Have asked hubby to work on some snow chains/wheels for the damn thing!
Mummy! Know exactly where you're coming from there!
The back garden is a different story, it's boggy, with clay soil so nearly Impossible to do anything. So I suppose I'll have to wait until its a lot more dryer before I attempt to put anything in the raised beds.
Oo and I have also sowed my first lot of sweet pea's (I know I should have waited but will see how they get on) the seeds were only from the pound shop so not expecting too much
Enjoy your day what ever your doing
I wish it would hurry up. Looking at a baldy new border that was dug yesterday. All thats in in is a few miserable primroses and a few bulbs. However there's some johnsons blue gerananiums lurking underneath - just starting to get going.
I have had some good deals from £ shop , GG !3 . Got a hibiscus and potted up a pack of 2 pink geraniums which have just come into leaf, I've also had several bulbs and packs of plants from there. One of my best bargains was lily of the valley It took a while to get going but its grown into a nice clump now.
You may be pleasantly surprised when your sweet peas are up
May also try some of their bulbs & plants. after all if some take then great I have got some plants for a ?? but if not then its not too disheartening!