The Scottish Gardeners thread

Grumpycupple

No snow today as yet. Yesterday was awful, four seasons in one day

cooking-mama

I want to go out and do some work in the garden today,but its sooooo cold:snow_laug(but soooo cosy indoors:coffee:)...Ive got poundland cloches over my lettuces,cabbages and kale,because altho its cold its also quite sunny(at times)..im gonna have to cover everything with fleece again soon tho(OH phoned and said he had to scrape the car windscreen at 06.30 this morning and its forecast to be even colder tomorrow).
suppose i should throw on a big wooly jumper and get out there,im working all day tomorrow,then off to Costco on Thursday...so if i dont do anything today,it'l be Friday before i next have time.:eek:

delerium

Hey all

I'm sorry to disappoint but I was not the winner of the 2k. I don't listen to real radio but my colleague does and she had us all listening in our office in Stobhill....yes seconds away!!

My sweetcorn is really going from strength to strength and my onions are starting to sprout. My toms have died but hey I wasn't all that bothered about those since I think they're the food of the devil. Only grow them for dd to be educated about food and where they are from! Oh and to show off in the office when I can provide fresh veg to all!!

My butternut squash is the only thing that isn't sprouting but I will keep an eye on a bit longer. Any suggestions?

No worries though about heavy lifting or fertilisers. Nice man at the garden centre suggested grapfruit for the slugs just no idea how to kill the weeds.

LilacPixie

can I join?? I'm in tayside. We had snow today. I have an allotment. Never had one before and we get keys in a few weeks. Yay.

laurals11

Hi..another veg gardener in South Lanarkshire. Frosty last night, snow on Tinto and Coulter Fell this morning. Ground is still very cold here..so everything is covered with homemade poly cloches.
Just wanted to say don't give up on the butternut squash delirium ( and congrats:T). I planted mine indoors in my south facing lounge greenhouse about 6 weeks ago and was about to chuck them when they appeared last week. Daughter in Sheffield planted hers about a fortnight earlier and they appeared on same day!

Daughter used coffee grounds for keeping slugs off seedlings last year . I have just tried some and it seems to work..ask local cafes (Starbucks do) they are usually happy if you pick up.Some say it doesn't work but it is for me.

princess_skint_a_lot_2

Hi all can i join this board too, im in perth, just got a house with a fair sized garden, im a stay at home mum, and want to make my garden feed us all, am gettin chickens soon, and have dug a fair sized veg patch, any tips on what to put in would be grat, im a general newbie at this so all advice would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

deb

Jinx

I am VERY excited as this week my veg has all started to sprout.... lettuce, cucumber, courgette and tomato.... its my first attempt and the fact theyve sprouted is a miracle as I usually overwater plants....!! I think I am going to be a very sad individual, I keep going to look at them!! LOL

Laurals11, I must be in the same area as you, I look onto Tinto

laurals11

Hi Jinx,
Nice to meet a local here.I have view to Coulter Fell from my south facing windows..and can just see Tinto if I look right when I leave home to walk up street.. you can probably guess where I am
Things I have cloched and in cold frame are doing well, but peas not covered are very slow as are shallots and onions.First grew veg in this part of world over 30 years ago and I've never known ground so cold..and we had extreme winters in 70s and 80s.Here's hoping it warms up soon but I'm going to make some more cloches.

Butternut squashes have to go in cold frame or there is no chance of fruit.
Gooseberries flowered early and have a lots of tiny fruit:j
We ate our first rhubarb last Sunday..and I have just cropped a load of chillies from my almost 4 year old plants in my south facing window. Longest I've kept plants, usually replace them after 2 or 3 years.

Pipkin

Can I join in too?

Not long moved into a house and inherited our first ever garden (we are in south east Scotland), front and back - yippee! Just loving it!

Done lots of digging and planted loads - Lavender, Roses, Lupins, Delphinium, Pinks, Hollyhocks, Foxgloves, more Lavender, Campanulas, Bluebells, Snowdrops, more Lavender (!), strawberries and garlic..all doing well so far (despite me!)...still very cold and wet here though (having to cover the strawbs every night, had a few fall prey to black eye which means they won't fruit)..wish it would hurry up and get sunny and warm! (ish - we only ever manage ish!)

mardatha

Oooooh just found this, can I join ? I'm 1000ft up in the border hills, and I really struggle with the gardening. This winter we had four & a half feet of snow at one point and it stayed for 5 weeks. I lost my precious Rosemary and my lavender looks a goner.
I have planted lettuce, onions, tatties and shallots, but they are all just sitting there not doing anything My daughter just moved to a hilltop farm cottage near me and she is getting chickens - whoohoo I love chickens!