Koalagirl

sweet pea

I grow them in toilet roll tubes too.

April in Your Garden

Geoff - Is there way of telling if people are online now that we don't have any **'s?

April in Your Garden

It's been mostly sunny here today apart from the odd 5 second short sharp shower.  I've been pulling up yet more forget me not seedlings and hand weeding the lawn.  I like daisies but hate dandilions so I just take out the latter and leave the former.  I've also chopped about 3' off the top of the monster rosemary because it was encroaching on the washing line again.  I smell strongly of rosemary now (just in case you wondered where the smell was coming from).

I usually grow Sweet Olive cherry tomatoes too but this year I didn't get around to sending off for any seeds.  They are are bit expensive and the garden centres don't stock them. 

spring onions

My spring onions always take ages too.  I tend to get my best results from sowing White Lisbon in the autumn.  They grow a bit and then stop during winter.  They start up again as soon as it warms up a bit in spring and that bit of a head start makes all the difference.  If I sowed them in the spring they would not be ready until autumn.  This year I am going to give japanese bunching onions a try.

April in Your Garden

My dad sows GD from seed each year and always gives me six of his plants.  I grow mine on the patio and he grows his in the greenhouse.  They both produce crops at the same time and the fruit tastes the same but my plants always look happier.  It is quite sunny where I live and the patio gets a lot of sunshine.

April in Your Garden

sotongeoff wrote (see)

Kate they should be but growing tomatoes outdoors is always dodgy-pot,growbag, or in the garden ?

I always grow my tomatoes in pots on the patio up against the privet hedge.  It gets a bit hard to cut that bit of hedge but it shelters them from the wind.

tonights gardeners world

I really liked tonight's show.  I've always loved pulmonarias and think Nigel is adorable.

BBC Gardening Arrivals - Meeting Point

Hi there.  Yes, the gang's all here.

Does anyone know if there is a way ot telling if someone is still online?  Like the ** on Beeb?  I feel sure that Geoff will know.

who is talking to who?

You are such a helpful sausage

April in Your Garden

You were up early today Kate - you even beat me (I get up at 5am).  I know what you mean about seed covers.  I was itching to tidy up my cosmos seedlings but restrained myself.

I'm so glad I bought my lovely10x10 potting shed in the summer.  Last spring my conservatory was knee deep in things waiting to go out but now most of them are sitting on the shelf of the potting shed by the window.  Do you remember that computer game where you had to fit shapes together (tetris or something)?  It is like that in the potting shed with trays of plants.