Gardening in the North East - what are you doing at the moment?

retro_bluebell

Nothing much to add on here but WHOOP to sunshine and warmer weather! Supposed to be 21 degrees tomorrow and 23 on Friday (hope I havent jinxed it now- you can blame me if I have )

stilernin

OK. So who is really fed up with this weather?

I can see some blue sky out there, but look at what is promised over the next 48 hours :eek:

Update on the blackbirds...... I was worried that my presence in the garden had upset them as some of the eggs (5 was the final count) had disappeared. My guilt was replaced with rage when, from my armchair, I watched a magpie land on the fence, walk along to the nest behind the shrub and reappear with an egg in it's mouth. Poor Mrs Blackbird

lovelife_3

Gutted for you, so sad, bloody magpies!

twiglet98

I'm east, rather than north-east, but it's usually cold enough here to feel we're a lot further north! Sympathies about the magpies, two of my bantams often lay under the hedge and their eggs always get stolen, I even suspect the magpies go into the chicken shed to help themselves. Horrible birds. A friend of mine catches them in a Larsen trap and kills them with a whack on the head, but I don't think I'm up to that.

lovelife_3

Well, lovely day yesterday:) not sure about today, very gloomy out my bedroom window! need to do so much in the garden! I have got over 40 tomato plants that need repotting!! I am going to try and sell some at The Make and Mend Market next Sunday, at The Star and Shadow Cinema along with my bric a brac, and home made scones. :smileyhea

It's been a good week, i ordered a compost bin through north Tyneside Council, £15 for a 330 litre one, can't wait to get going on this. Everything going great guns in the garden. This is my first year of growing veg etc. and certain things are very gratifying. I think my favourites has to be courgettes, they grow so big and strong so quickly, a great confidence booster. Also potatoes, i love earthing them up and then seeing, the green shoots poking through again the next day. Good luck everybody for the week ahead, happy gardening:)

maypole

Well, Saturday was gorgeous, it was lovely to see the plants basking in the sunshine, complete opposite today, cold and wet:(

stilernin

What is it with this weather? :(:( I took one look at six this morning and didn't even go to the car boot sale. (Even more MSE )

Got out into the garden yesterday and sorted out a bit of the herbaceous border, blimmin' creeping buttercup!, and took some surplus plants down to DD to help fill her garden. I'd also bought her a 99p blackcurrant bush from Lidl.

Looked at a plot (I'm top of the waiting list) but it wasn't for me. I'm a girlie of a certain age, so what I take on will be for the 'duration' and has to be 'right'. This one needed a younger set of muscles and it was as far away from the entrance (and toilets :eek::eek:) as you could get.

I'm sticking with pots at the moment, so does anyone up here think that we will get any ripe tomatoes from outside plants this year?

dorisday

dont know about outside tomato plants but my gh tomato plants are looking fantastic:j loads of flowers on them and the stems are quite thick and sturdy (must be because I sit in there and talk to them lol problem will be if they ever talk back!)
have read somewhere that if you take all all side stems from underneath the flowers that helps the plants grow better tomatoes - anyone know if this is true? have done this with one out of 13 but afraid to do the rest in case I kill them all:eek:
Well its raining here today as expected, have just covered up my lettuce as I dont want them all soggy and having looked on the BBC weather site for the north east it says its going to be heavy rain here all day.

stilernin

Cor blimey, what's with this weather? I've got runners and climbing french beans in big pots with 7' canes. Fingers crossed they don't get blown over.

lovelife_3

It's awful isn't it, what a change from yesterday! I am also praying everything will be ok