The Scottish Gardeners thread

HariboJunkie

Going to do my windowboxes today and get the hanging baskets out of the greenhouse. The 5 windowboxes will be a combination of lobelia and petunia i grew from seed, surfina from the garden centre, fuschia cuttings and new fuschia plants and some lovely lavender perlagorium which I can hopefully keep alive through the winter. Just need to find room for all the winter plants coming out of the windowboxes.
No sign of life on my fuschias yet either but I live in hope.
The veg beds need some attention today. The iceberg lettuce is roaring away but the lollo rosso hasn't budged. Red and green cabbage and calabrese are doing well so I'll put some radish in today as a catch crop. Most of the tumbler tomatoes have flower buds on and are doing well now they're in their final pots. Cucumber and courguette both look a bit sad but think they just need some heat.

Welcome Jenfeet. Your lifestyle sounds lovely. We have chooks but absolutely no room for anything else atm. I really, really, really want a goat.

Hope everyone has a great bank holiday.

elantan

jen your life sounds fantastic ... how do you find it having a polytunnel?

well the polytunnel is slowly coming along i think we might even have it finished ... i dont want to get my hopes up though just incase .... but i really wanna get started with serious sowing ... i have so much to get done but i dont want to start ww3 in my house lol ...

my potatoes are really surprising me ... every day almost i have to go and put more compost on top of them cause the leaves are peaking through... my courgettes are looking good apart from the one i pushed back down thinking it was trying to escape (i am a total novice)

my raspberry canes have started producing new growth as well ... am a bit concerned about that cause i need to dig them back out to move them to their final position ... can i do that ? or do i have to leave them alone?

snowball2103

Glad to read of the progress everyone is making. Continuing to harden off tomato seedlings outside everyday. Put them out on Friday while I went to Tesco and there was a huge downpour,:eek: thought they were going to keel over but they're more resilent than I thought. Bought one of the £2 Blueberries in Tesco, looked really good in the shop but when I unpacked it looks like the top has been ripped off and its growning to the one side, hopefully it will be ok. Potatoes being earthed up. Raspberry cane has second small bud and two suckers, I'm delighted as I bought this on impulse and then read it couldn't be grown in tubs, but it seems happy enough:j. Strawberries, Lettuce, Spring Onions and various herbs doing well. Sweet peas planted for the bees have just appeared. No sign of carrots as yet. I'm continuing to cosset the courgettes, sweet peppers and squash in the house for the moment. Off to pot on squash as it's growing like mad.:D

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend.

elantan

snowball my carrots took ages to come out i was just about to give up on them when they popped out..

Grebe

Hi JenFeet, just wanted to say your place sounds like heaven:D I am green with envy:D
Thanks annie123, I seem to be like haribo, no real sign of life yet in the fuschias yet. I hope I don't lose them mum gave me them a few years ago and I have never really needed to do anything to them except give a wee feed now and then.
I had a fun day in the garden cleaning out the shed! The midges were out in force and since I seem to be a buffet table to them I lit some barbecue coals and chucked some myrrh resin on top in an effort to fend them off and no bites at all today:j
Tomorrow looks like a good clear day so will give the lawn:rotfl::rotfl:or should I say moss a run over with the lawnmower and I might just bite the bullet and go buy a hedge cutter. I did last year manage to cut my way through the cable of my last one and blow it to bits, I still don't now why I was not blown to bits as well!
Hope everyone has a lovely bank hol tomorrow.
XX Grebe

wssla00

You all sound like you are growing loads and loads I have things growing but some of them im not sure what they are. My honeysuckle is going ok though as it my magnolia!

Enjoy the weather

JenFeet

Hi all and thanks for the welcome.

Absolutley freezing today and a constant gale blowing - got a walk with the kids and dog but nothing else outside for us. I just checked my 'babies' (sweetcorn seedlings) and the visitor in the tunnel has eaten 5 of them and dug 2 new 'burrows'. I have put a peanut butter flavoured mouse trap next to one of the new tunnels now. I don't know what I'll do if it catches anything as my OH is away this week but I think my 3 year old girl will be okay to dispose of it. Sorry - I don't do humane traps as there are just so many of the little blighters and it doesn't seem right to release them for someone else to have to deal with.

Elantan - the polytunnel is great but a constant source of worry for me with the high winds we have here. We had so much from it last year - I'll try and post pics of the amount of growing it was amazing! But it's not much protection from the cold and as I'm growing in raised beds in there I think needs more watering (got an irrigation thingy on the crop bars). My OH put an additional 2 beds in for this year to try to do away with the grow bags on the floor and to increase the amount of growing space. I also hadn't counted on the amount of warming the soil would need and planted directly - which was a mistake as have had very poor germination in the beds while great in the small pots. I think I will have to be getting some established seedlings from Tesco (which I really didn't want to do!).

Tomorrow kids are back to nursery so I plan 2 hours of 'me time' and I will be clearing the weeds from my outside beds and adding compost and chicken poo. ** Please please let the weather be kinder than today!! **

It IS great here and we're really lucky to be here - but the wind and the weather make it very difficult to have a 'pretty' garden but we're trying to adapt to make things work!
Hope all are well.
Jen x

Jinx

Hi Guys

Can I join please? I live in South Lanarkshire and am a total novice at gardening!! I have just planted some potatoes and onions for the first time, fingers crossed!!

Its sunny today so I have been out staining my decking, not green fingered but needed doing....

Oh and I think I have lost all my lavendar in the snow Can anyone in south lanarkshire tell me if theres is growing yet? Suspect mine is beyond redemption...sigh

Jinx x

cooking-mama

Ive been at work over the weekend and yesterday,so didnt get anything done in the garden,but today im planning on,:
planting my strawberry plants(in those stacker type 4 sided pots from poundland,
then im gonna repot my poor "leggy"looking tomatoes,
and i have a 40 cell propagator thingy(£2 from Asda)im planning on sowing a variety of seeds in this(even the ones that are only recommended for sowing up until April;)
Then im going to have to plant my seed potatoes in the growing bag thing from Gardeners world,
and last but not least....take some photos of my progress to date...I may even get around to uploading them onto my computer and posting here.:)
good luck everyone.x
PS,its kinda cold and grey in my wee bit of North Lanarkshire today.

Grebe

Evening peeps, it's freezing in my bit of north Lanarkshire as well cooking mama. In fact it's bliddy freezing! I have had to put a fleece around my borlotti beans as they were looking a bit frazzled in the cold wind.
Hi Jinx, I lost my lavender as well. The winter snow and ice really took it's toll on lot's of my favourite plants.
JenFeet, good luck with the mouse trap. I found the best thing top put in them was a sultana! I jammed it onto the wee prongs at the bait site. I bought the ones from Home stores and just chucked the whole thing out with the wee deceased mouse.