Gardening in Yorkshire - what are you doing at the moment?

bertiebots

Ooooh goody the sky has just gone black! I am off to take the lid off my empty waterbutt (its not connected to a downpipe) and hope we have a right good downpour!!
My soil is dry as a bone and we really need some rain! Normally I would be moaning because too much turns our garden into a bog!

Optimist

bertiebots wrote: »

Ooooh goody the sky has just gone black! I am off to take the lid off my empty waterbutt (its not connected to a downpipe) and hope we have a right good downpour!!
My soil is dry as a bone and we really need some rain! Normally I would be moaning because too much turns our garden into a bog!

Just had a right downpour here but it has passed and the sun is out so it must be on the way to you !

bertiebots

Yup...rained for about 1/2 an hour and now the suns back out!

Optimist

bertiebots wrote: »

Yup...rained for about 1/2 an hour and now the suns back out!

Ahh the joys of living in Yorkshire. It rains just when it is needed....:D

Filey

alm721 wrote: »

Regarding the covenant regarding chickens, most new houses have this. They are put in by the builders to prevent people keeping livestock etc which may put off other buyers whilst they are still developing. The only people who can enforce these covenants are the builders who will not care a jot once they've sold all their houses and moved on. The local council will do nothing to enforce these covenents, believe me we've tried! If you ring them they will tell you the covenents are noting to do with these.
So from that point of view theres really nothing to worry about as no-one will seek to enforce this covenent, people may moan but there is nothing anyone can do. That said I'm not suggesting upsetting the neighbours necessarily but don't be put off because of the covenants. Why not have a word with them, they may not be bothered at all, you could always offer them some eggs now and again, maybe a win win situation?

If you get any chickens just make sure they are all hens. Absolutely NO cockerels. A !!!! crowing is a lovely sound in the distance but not underneath your bedroom window or even at the bottom of the garden. They start to crow at the first chink of daylight and even are sufficiently deluded sometimes to crow during the night, especially if there's a full moon.

ventureuk

75 kos lettuce of three varieties taken from the tunnel and planted out.

35 Toms of six varieties repotted.

8 Sweet 'bulls horn' red peppers repotted.

8 Jalepno peppers repotted.

Peas coming up, pots in, onions coming up, courgettes sprouting, sweetcorn 12" tall (in the tunnel), eating rocket, small lettuce leaves and radish from the tunnel, melons sprouting, cucumbers sprouting.

I have the benefit of a recently erected polytunnel but on the side of one of the lower Pennine hills I can say that there's now't you can't grow in Yorkshire.

savingmummy

Having not seen chives before i have a question for you all

My chives have really shot up over the weeknd and some have small seed like ends, is this correct?
Are they the flowering heads forming?

Optimist

savingmummy wrote: »

Having not seen chives before i have a question for you all

My chives have really shot up over the weeknd and some have small seed like ends, is this correct?
Are they the flowering heads forming?

I would think it is the flowers forming. You can eat the flowers add them to a salad or into a omelette. The bees also love them !

I was walking past my fridge earlier and I swear I could hear the onions singing Bee Gees songs. So I opened the door and had a look... turns out it was just the chives talking.

savingmummy

Optimist wrote: »

I would think it is the flowers forming. You can eat the flowers add them to a salad or into a omelette. The bees also love them !

I was walking past my fridge earlier and I swear I could hear the onions singing Bee Gees songs. So I opened the door and had a look... turns out it was just the chives talking.

:rotfl:LOL! Thank you x

bertiebots

Evening all... I have just planted some cucumber seeds as well as sweetcorn, delphiniums and something else I cant remember the name of without going to look lol:rotfl:They are all sat on my kitchen window ledge.
I have planted 3 varietys of tom seeds, spring onions, peas, dwarf beans, lettuce, corriander, chives, oregano, dill, marrigolds and 2 varietys of nasturtiums -so have loads of pots to watch!:D And I spotted a flower on one of my strawberry plants today...
I found some dwarf kale seeds today so am going to plant them direct into one of my raised beds.
I have now run out of compost again and need to rethink where I am going to fit everything , because it is going to grow;) (unlike last year when I forgot to keep watering:o). Darent get rid of anymore lawn:eek:
So I might go to my local morrisons and see if they have some of those flower buckets mentioned on another thread. I friendly man at the garden centre today told me they are 9 for £1.50 so will be worth a little walk tomorrow.