The Scottish Gardeners thread

GarnetLady

Hi iainsmum. I have my lettuce in a flexi trug.

It's a beautiful day here, sunshine at last, even if it is a little hazy at times.

I need to restake my clematis, it's doubled in height in just 10 days! Other than that a general garden tidy, it's too hot to dig out the grass just now, will leave that for this evening.

Ps - congrats delerium. Jan's a great month to be born.

delerium

Skelly01 I'm in Glasgow, Garden is south facing. Tried to grow sweetcorn last year, followed the instructions competely faithfully last year, but nothing so this year I put them in the grow house and lo andbehold they have shot up.

Worried though as going on holiday and don't know how they will survive the fortnight....

realfood

delerium, I have grown sweetcorn successfully outside for a few years following the method given here:- http://www.growyourown.info/page129.html

jackieglasgow

West facing patch, about a foot and a half wide, by 10 feet long, at the side of a fence with a wall behind it. Direct sun for a couple of hours middle of the day. Suggestions for ornamentals please? I like purples and blacks and pinks and silvers.

Grebe

Hello peeps:D Just finished watching the final Ashes to Ashes, so angsted as I am sooooooooooooo in lurve with Gene. Oh well, just pouring a large glass and all emotional.
Sorries for not posting babes but I have been visiting my bestest pal up in Aberdeenshire coast, up by Huntley. OMG the difference on what is sprouting and blossoming between Nth Lanarkshire and there is enormous!!!
It's been bliddy roasting here today. I have been neglecting my own tiny patch to try to help out my elderly neighbour. She is well unable to dig out her owndesired patch and has the wish lots of lovely colour this summer so in a moment of madness I said I would do it:eek::eek::eek::eek: Fneking heavy clay soil and the need for double digging and serious hoeing as well as adding a zillion tons of compost are on the cards. Perhaps the gardening fairy wiill sprinkle me with fairy dust to ensure my task is not too heavy.
My own plantelicious plot is blossoming, all except my variagated hollly, it looks well dead.

Before I go a special hellos to iansmum, skellyO1 and all other new faces.
Be back tomorrow

mardatha

http://www.trebrown.com/hrdzone.html
I'm in 7b

GarnetLady

mardatha wrote: »

http://www.trebrown.com/hrdzone.html
I'm in 7b

That was interesting.

I'm in 8a.

Another fab day. Wondering whether to risk pulling out my primulas (some of which are looking the worse for wear) and put some of my summer bedding in....

GarnetLady

Grebe wrote: »

It's been bliddy roasting here today. I have been neglecting my own tiny patch to try to help out my elderly neighbour. She is well unable to dig out her owndesired patch and has the wish lots of lovely colour this summer so in a moment of madness I said I would do it:eek::eek::eek::eek: Fneking heavy clay soil and the need for double digging and serious hoeing as well as adding a zillion tons of compost are on the cards. Perhaps the gardening fairy wiill sprinkle me with fairy dust to ensure my task is not too heavy.

Hope you had a nice time away and that the gardening fairy finds you quickly!

skelly01, sorry I missed you, welcome.

Grebe

Hello peeps, are we all sunkissed and way too hot?
Very warm in Nth Lan today, too hot to dig in next doors garden, it would have been the short cut to a heart attack for me, so I weeded my own patch today.
Everything was going well until I went tip over a*se while talking on the phone and yanking out horsetail weed at the same time.........Larf is I landed with my butt in the almost ready to cut pea shoots I had planned to cut this week:o Needless to say my short but ample derrier crushed the whole lot. Oh well hey hoo, I will just have to sow another lot:rotfl: At least it was a soft landing.
I am pleased to say my carrots have decided to make a show at last:j I know they are slow to sprout but I was beginning to think nothing was going to happen. Sadly all of my beetroot seedlings have succumbed to slugs, so I am raiding my DS's beer and will be setting up some drowning in booze traps in the morning.
The potato growing has shot off in the warm weather so much watering and drawing up of soil is happening every day.

I had a lovely time thanks GarnetLady. Spent my time playing with dogs, mucking out stables, eating well and drinking too much of my pals wine. Weather lovely and company even better. Much as I would like to live my life if and when I win the lottery:D Not for me living abroad with gold taps and a complicated life. I will take Scottish climes, a huuuuuuuuuuuuge garden, chickens, dogs, cats, geese, close to the sea and my very own apple orchard.
Not a lot to ask is it

Pipkin

Mardatha, I do hope that the buddleia are very hardy. I did do some reasearch and came to the conclusion that they are, and I've tried very hard to buy only plants that are evergreen hardy or perennial hardy so that they have a chance of surviving here (we are on the border between 8a and 7b - it's a bit hard to tell exactly.)

However wind is something I didn't consider and we do get a lot of wind, but I'm hoping that only one of them will be exposed to it, the other 2 being sheltered as they are planted on the other side of the shed that receives the battering of the wind.

Lovely day here yesterday, too hot!

Everything is blooming though..I earthed up the potatoes last night and this morning I see them peeking out again..the lupin and foxglove flowers are peeking through and even my baby lavender (hoping it will be a joined up lavender hedge in a few years!) have flowers forming on them..there are strawberries ripening in the raised bed and the raspberry canes are sending up new shoots..no sign of any life on the blackberry ones though ...even got 2 blossom on my cherry tree (just new this year) so might have a harvest of 2 if we are lucky!

We laid a paving stone border around the front of the shed and it looks very nice..and a decorative stone border around the planted area at the back of the garden..thinking I should maybe go for it and do it along the dug out area that will one day be the lavender hedge.

Would cost a bit, but it would be a once in a lifetime job and well worth it I think.

The front garden is blooming too, everything seems to have taken a sprout these last 2 or 3 days - the delphiniums are in flower, the pinks about to, and the lupins and foxgloves are shooting up..no sign of a flower on the hollyhocks though, don't know if they will flower this year? and the baskets have taken off suddenly too.

It's not so sunny this morning but still very muggy and hot.

Have a lovely day all xx