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So with you there, Pippa, as long as it is not too cold. Stretching my legs at the Brisol Bot. Garden on Thursday in between cleaning seed sessions my lungs actually hurt with the intensity of the cold as it was below freezing. But it looks like

hi yes still in propogator in cold greenhouse although i do have a heater in there for night to keep it just above freezing. And the propagator is heated?-then they are too warm- growing to fast that is why they are leggy and soft It might pay

.....bit further west. Think there are a few of us now. Good news about your frog spawn. We have been lucky with our weather...15 degrees for a while today......whilst the rest of the country has been freezing

to go outside if it is freezing though as at present That should be OK., but don't worry too much about them getting cold. They are hardy and seed themselves in the garden. It's just at this time of year they need a little help to germinate, but not real

and give it a good feed Thank you Verdun. As always this is the place to get answers to any gardening queries Verdun you said soon so I went out and did it. My hands were freezing!     Ha ha, well done! I couldn't bear to venture out into the garden today

Well I have just been out in the garden dressed up like the Michelen man  as its still freezing. The snow has finally melted from most of my borders and I have been taking stock. Snowdrops are still flowering, various crocuses look great as do

touching the ground. Does it have anything to do with the cold? And will they recover? Thanks Yes, they have got chilled through, they may well stand up straight again, many plants actually do after a quick freeze.  Much will depend upon how frozen they got

convinced that fleece works that well. The problem is when the fleece gets wet with dew before it freezes to ice, and which can then damage the plant it is lying on. Only solution is to keep the fleece proud of the plant which is not always possible. Anyone

in bubble wrap and leave the top growth open, so no sweating in mild spells. Let's hope we have some mild spells! gardeners fleece is a good idea, I think its the freezing wind that they dont like as they are quite a hardy plant and can tolerate cold weather

, and during the last two months temperatures have dropped way below this 'minimum' temperature. For the last couple of weeks our night temperature here has dropped several degrees below freezing every night, and not been much above this during the day either