The Scottish Gardeners thread

Grebe

Happy to say my rocket seedlings have made an appearance at last. Found my first ladybird of the year wandering around the venetian blind so rescued it and placed it on my redcurrant which has green fly already!!!

GarnetLady

Oooh, Beechgrove Garden is on...

realfood

If you are growing fruit and vegetables in Scotland and the North of England, there is loads of info on this site:- http://www.growyourown.info/index.html

elantan

hey we have loads of lanarksherians ... i'm in the south but visit the north often the five hour car trip is worth it lol ...

now we know this we can have a meet ..lol .... jinky does ya need any help mrs i have some seeds etc if you need any ...

pondskater_2

Thanks for that Haribo

cooking-mama

I cant believe the number of people from Lanarkshire...maybe some of us are neighbours:beer:
,Anyhow i eventualy bought my strawberry plants from Tesco,£3 for 6,im planning on buying 2 of these from poundland and laying one on top of the other.
Also bought a tray of 16 marigolds(OH.picked the "claret and amber" ones,that'l give a clue to our wherabouts:rotfl:)
Am i correct in thinking marigolds are good for "companion gardening" to detract bugs etc away from veggies?

ps, we are nearer the clydevalley than the town,but recently we're getting several Toonie/kebab eating type pidgeons in our garden,and on our bird table,this is the first year this has ever happend,how do i deter them without scaring off our visiting finches/robins etc.

jackieglasgow

My sweetpeas are shooting yeehah! First time I've tried putting them straight into the ground, and was a bit worried they wouldn't take but they're up against a south facing wall, so looking forward to the lovely smell! I've lots to do just now but it's persisting down, but I think it'll only be a shower. Lots of stuff to plant on.

GarnetLady

I got a tray of sweet peas from B&Q a few weeks ago. They really need planting, the roots are coming through the bottom. Like everything else they need to go in a pot and I think I'll use the obelisk I got from Morrisons fo the to climb on just now.

Out of one window here it's blue sky and out of the other there's a huge black cloud. Scottish weather for you!

I've heard marigolds are good for keeping pests away. I'm going to put a couple in the hanging basket that my tumbler tom is in.

Poundland strawberry planters are on 3 for 2.

snowball2103

Just thought I'd pop in and say "hi". Just to follow on, I'm also in Lanarkshire, North this time! It's my first year gardening but with no garden I'm container gardening on the balcony. Things statred off slowly enough with me buying a packet of tomato seeds but seems to have developed into a bit of an obsession. Anyway off to Lidl to see if I can buy a cheap Blueberry that I read about on another thread.

ecgirl07

hi i too am in lanarkshire - have a gravel garden so growing stuff in pots and the polythene bag thingys. Sweet peas just poking through, but green peas doing very well. Got chillis, tomatos, cucumber peppers melons all doing ok in a 4 tier plastic hothouse and just spent £29.99 on the plastic walk in green house.

Its my first year living in a house with a garden (after years of flat living in glasgow) and we have building work scheduled for the summer so this year is just a plant it and see what grows as i will lose the garden later in the summer.