In my garden in March..........

comping_cat

I love the pictures of the gardens Pen pen and TKP - i have a very small garden, but ive got the end house, so i also have a side alley, which i have a small area that im going to attempt to plant some sweetcorn and butternut squash.
I would love to have chickens, but we have foxes around here, and having the small garden, not much room to keep them safe.

Shez

Morning!

Have popped on to be nosey like CM! What lovely BIG gardens you have ladies!!! you lucky things!

Are you all living out in the countryside or in large towns??

I darent post a pic of my little postage stamp garden - but i suppose im lucky that i do have a garden in London - which they keep saying on tv is a rarity these days?!

I did cut the grass yesterday and tidied up, next job is I need a new patio area - thinking of decking it (although I dont really like decking) because i have a corner of the patio where water collects so decking might be a solution?

Lovely pic of the chooks too penny!

MimiF

Hello all!!

Lovely to see some "friends" over here!! Just a quickie to say my lavender seedlings are coming through and the morning glory too!!!!!!:j

I was especialy pleased about the morning glory as I had forgotten to soak them. Once they were in I drenched them and hoped it would be similar to a soaking.

I do love watching the seedlings come through, am worried about the weather though, snow is predicted on Monday!!! :eek:

MimiF

Churchmouse

Shez Point of order here!!! I'm not nosey, I'm interested:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Forgot to say yesterday (my mind was on tracking down Penny) TKP your garden looks lovely too! I am so [STRIKE]envious[/STRIKE] oblivious to the fact mine would fit in yours about 20 times:rotfl: :rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

Where's a girl to go when she wants some peace Great to see all you [STRIKE]nosey parkers[/STRIKE] interested gardeners over from Old Style :beer: :grouphug:

Been out in the polytunnel, planting seeds into pots. I've got pepper, squash, courgette, cucumber, aubergine, jalapeno chilli (for DH ), and a tray of dwarf beans.

I'm now making paper pots for sweetcorn and sweetpea seeds.

My peas in the polytunnel have germinated, so I've given everything a good watering.

Penny. x

SunnyD_3

You've got some lovely gardens! :cool:

I finally got into mine in the dry and cut the lawns last weekend, it's the first bit of time I've spent in the garden since planting my onion sets and garlic out a couple of weeks ago Not much sign of activity there yet, but my indoor seedlings have been shooting up since I sowed them in seed cell trays on my windowsills :T

My tomato seedlings are as tall as the cheap 'propagator' lid that I'd been covering the tray with, while my pepper and chilli pepper seedlings are coming on a bit slower. My leeks have shot up from seed in just a few days and I'm beginning to regret thinking I could start them off in seed cells :eek:

My cucumber seedlings also seem to have started off well, and my '£1 from Wilkinsons' Gooseberry, Blackcurrant and Redcurrant baby bushes are all looking very healthy :cool: I think I may have to stretch to buying a £4 blueberry bush too

I'm going to start off my courgettes and various salad leaves at the weekend, and also start off some beans and peas (and sweet peas). I've not got great expectations for these as I've not prepared a bed for them - but I thought I'd have a go! I may actually try growing the peas in big containers :undecided

I'll also be trying to move some of my tomato seedlings into bigger pots - I have a suspicion that this is where it's all going to start to go horribly wrong :rolleyes:

I'm frustrated that my garden is pretty big, but I spent last year doing battle with horsetail, and covered a huge would-be planting area with membrane and chippings to try and ensure the horrible weed doesn't get a chance to come back

I'd love to try carrots, potatoes and parsnips in that part of the garden, but I'm going to be good and leave it covered at least until the Autumn.

Meanwhile I have enough stuff growing to cover the world with containers, and as it's my first go at growing stuff I should probably look at it as walking before I try and run :rotfl:

heather38

mimif- i always grow morning glory, but never this early as they grow so fast and are really tender to frost that i can't usually put them out till late may. how do you store them till then or do you plant them out early and hope for the best?

hex2

£4 blueberries in Wilkinsons? Ooh, that has to be worth a trip to get them.

On our windowledges at the moment we have toms, peas, aubergines, sunflowers and lots of perennials ready for the new cottage garden at the front. Pleased with the aubergines as he totally ignored the instructions yet has a 100% germination rate :rolleyes:

I finally did the asparagus bed this week, and am busy raking the rest of the veg plots to a 'fine tilth' without a noticeable degree of success. Right plot is well manured and dug over, left plot has been limed at the start of Jan and dug over ready for the next stage. Pea trench has been dug and is slowly filling up with compost and manure. I need to sit down and plan out what to plant and where. I also need to find a good/cheap supply of manure.

Quick trip to Morrisons yesterday for yet more 8 for 99p black pots - perfect for the container veg.

Lots of things starting to burst into life, it is exciting waiting to see exactly what things are. No magnolia which is a shame.

Nice to see more people from OS here :hello:

hex2

Here goes, my first attempt at posting a picture. The back garden is about quarter of an acre divided down the middle by a dry stone wall. The lhs is mostly veg at the moment (you can see half of the plot), and then classic grass and borders for most of the rhs. Thanks PP for the instructions!

Penelope_Penguin

Great to see all the photos of people's gardens. :beer: :A Hex, yours looks great!

Can I ask a small favour, to make the thread easier to read? It will help if we resize photos before uploading them.

This needs to be done in the photo hosting website (as there's no facility to do this atm on MSE).

Select the photo and choose *resize* option. Select no larger than *message board* 640 x 480.

Keep the photos coming, Penny. x