Is it going to be another wash-out?

mardatha

Almost May and nothing in the ground. Icy cold rain day after day after day. Is it going to be a repeat of last year? What grows in cold and wet ground? cos I should specialise innit!

suisidevw

My front gardens underwater and my greenhouse is full to the brim!

Have planted my sweet peas out now though!

mardatha

I'm on top of a hill so no flooding but if this goes on then we might start an Ark.

tim_n

Worried I may need a boat to get to the station. The drought is making its presence felt - my garden is underwater.

radiohelen

They reckon May is going to be average or just below so not too traumatic! Although I've done nothing on the lottie for a few weeks because every time I have a few hours to go up it pours from the heavens. A few potatoes in, lots of garlic and some onions in. A blowaway with quite a lot of tomatoes and chillis in it but I've not bothered with the stuff from warmer climes yet. They just aren't going to do anything until it warms up a bit. Cabbages, spuds and garlic all year then.. must find that Polish cook book.
Can't mow the lawn much either.. it's looking like a meadow out there.

jammy_dodger

i empathise mardatha , your not alone

i too have been unable to get going in the garden as its too cold and blummin wet here in moray

, have lovely raised beds , newly built with my own fair hands and dying to plant out stuff , but with these dull days even my seddlings look misrable ,and no where near ready to go out , will i get any veg this year

i know nature is a wondeful thing and has a habbit of catching up WHEN weather d ecides to brighten but am beginning to get impatient

have been drooling at grow lights on the internet and wondering if this would be a solution to bring my wee seddlings on

and at leats see something growing
heres hoping things improve

jd x

poppysarah

It might not seem bright - but it is so much brighter than back in December. You don't need articicial lights - just make sure the window glass is clean and start stuff on there.

I reckon most things will catch up as long as the ground isn't muddy when you plant out.

tim_n

You can plant out! I've had my salad out in the frosts with no probs in a raised bed:

SailorSam

I've just been out in the piddling rain planting the fruit bushes i bought yesterday, i wanted to get them in right away. I'd bought some earlier in the year but they were planted when we had all that ice and snow so think they froze to death, i've put them into buckets just in case they do come back again for next year.
Got garlic and rhubarb yesterday as well but they can wait until the rain stops.

mardatha

Absolutely nothing out there in my back garden, just wet chickens in mud and wet lambs poking their heads over a wet fence

jammy_dodger

tim_n wrote: »

You can plant out! I've had my salad out in the frosts with no probs in a raised bed:

that looks fantastic tim_n how lovely to see something green growing and not all wet mud , i have some shallots in pots that are well through ( about the only thing looking healthy so i think i'll christen one of my beds and plant em out despite the rain and cold ( may even suply a photo later )

happy planting ...when you can