The Potting Shed - come on in, the kettle's on!

tim_n

Spent a very productive weekend installing fences in the rain (had to empty one of my 1,000 ltrs as it was overflowing, took about 6hrs to empty half way through the garden hose!), also made an insect hotel, bat box and put the last undercoat on the plywood boat I'm building.

Was a bit cold last night - spent the evening looking for a missing lock to the garage - no luck and ended up bodging some security to keep it shut. Frost may well be on the way (and snow???) so my salad may not survive! fingers crossed though!

boultdj

Been out in the garden most of today, nice to see the rhubarb coming up also planted more seed's, done parsley, dwarf sunflower's,pepper's and 4 diffrent type's of tomatoe's.

radiohelen

We are going to have our first rhubarb crumble of spring this weekend! Yay! It's really got going this week so we can have yummy crumble and custard. :j

The propagator is in action at the minute. My Outdoor Girl tomatoes are coming up like good 'uns. The chillis have managed to germinate, as have the celery, the cabbages, the coriander, the leeks and more! Having trouble with parsley and aubergines though. They remain defiantly ungerminated.
I planted loads of garlic this week. I say planted, relocated would be more accurate. We had garlic that did nothing last year that I forgot and it's all shot through now so I relocated it to the new spot and split it out so it wasn't all in clumps. Now I just have to remember to harvest it all.
Got a lot of raking to do now. Hopefully it will remove all the dead twitch from the weedkilling armageddon last autumn. Then I can plant the tatties that are chitting on the windowsill!
Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is?

Thriftkitten

Afternoon potters, just wanted to share with you that my 2 darling daughters bought me a Prunus incisa( ornamental cherry), for Mothers Day.... courtesy of my mother, it's gorgeous and when we move to the new house I will pot it in a rather large pot and it will take pride of place somewhere to be admired on my lazy sunny days in the garden.
I'm hoping all the mothers here are having a lovely sunday and Gents too, things are moving along swiftly with the house exchange, inspections done, now just waiting for them to tick all the boxes and cross all the T's and away I go into a Huuuuge front and back garden, Digging for Victory and enjoying passing on my newly learnt gardening skills to DD2(10yrs) who has been prommissed a small section of the allotment. Hope all the seedlings are winging away and your all starting to tinker about in the potting shed:j.

pawlala

Came back in for a brew. Please could someone tell me if these are weeds before I go and dig them up. Have a lovely day!

poppysarah

pawlala wrote: »

Came back in for a brew. Please could someone tell me if these are weeds before I go and dig them up. Have a lovely day!

Looks like Chickweed. Although it looks quite huge.

Can be eaten but considered a weed. Self seeds easily.

ALIBOBSY

radiohelen wrote: »

Rhubarb is a joy once you get it going. No maintenance. Stalks for crumble year after year! I love my rhubarb.
I would defo go the Autumn fruiting rasps route. Less to remember! I had berries into December this year too!
I think Aldi and Lidl have both got garden events on now. I got three fruit bushes for £2.50 a couple of weeks ago. Raspberries, blackcurrants and thornless blackberries. I'm still putting them in the garden now, well I would be but it's throwing it down outside.

Here's a question though, if you had a big space that clearly needed to be a patio but you had no money (familiar anyone? The money bit obvs) How would you get yourself a patio? It's been a green wedge of misery for a couple of years and it really needs sorting out not least because my little one is now getting to the riding a bike stage and we need somewhere for it to happen that won't turn into a muddy bald patch of lawn.

I would go on freecycle and look for either flags-we have had a few lots of these. Or chippings or wood chips.
Perhaps you could get wood chip reasonably cheap (or maybe free) from a local tree surgeon. TBH wood or stone chips can be relatively cheap and laid in a level layer will keep down weeds and can be like a patio. Sometimes aldi/lidl do bags of woodchips. Perhaps just buy one or two bags a week (to spread the cost) until you have a few to put down?

I remember some older realtives in the 70's having concrete slab patios I would imagine if you did it youself it could be quite cheap?

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

poppysarah wrote: »

Looks like Chickweed. Although it looks quite huge.

Can be eaten but considered a weed. Self seeds easily.

Yes I would say chickweed as well. Not bad as salad leaves-we get it all over the garden lol. Our chickens adore it and they only favour dandelion leaves over it lol. It actually looks quite pretty in flower, but it spreads like crazy.

Ali x

ALIBOBSY

Anyone else basking in sunshine. It is like mid summer here and has been gorgeous all week. Even had to water, yes water some of my herb pots as they had dried out!
Sorted the strawberry bed out yesterday-lifted the plants left, removed any that were very old or dead, weeded and dug over then top dressed with some compost and replanted the plants plus some new lidl plants. Between us got the fence all painted all around(finished this morning), put in a new raised bed in the garden, cleaned and painted the chicken house. Cleared and cleaned out the big greenhouse-little one is full of seedlings lol.

Its amazing how much you can get done when the weather is like this. Oh nipped to get some salad as we have decided to wheel out the BBQ while we can.

DD1 is very happy as new family moved in over the road to day so a new friend her age is here and with it being so sunny keep seeing 6 8/9 yr olds go running past the front window lol. But she keeps asking are we sure its spring not summer.

Even the chickens are sunbathing.
Off to turn the mince that was to be cottage pie into some burgers lol.

Enjoy it while you can ev1

Ali x

Sambucus_Nigra

It's Hoary Bittercress. Still edible, and considered a weed but it's not chickweed.