In my garden in April............

demented_2

HI Madhouseof4.
I am really impressed with all your hard work and also the Greenhouse. I have just bought one and have got the top layer filled with runnerbeans, a pot of basil some tomatoes,pumpkins and courgettes. Do you keep your door rolled up during the day or do you keep it closed until the seedlings come up? It does get warm in there. Any advice would be greatfully received. Thanks Demented.:D

KatrinaC_2

Evening all!

Penelope Penguin - It is a very small world, not only do we live in the same county, but I went to school in Alnwick and lived up there until 10 years ago. Have you really been in the garden since 6? Good grief! I'd only just got home three hours before that! It was a very good night out but it's been hard work scarifying the lawn with a hangover!

So far today I've done a bit of (very!) light weeding in the veg patch, mown, edged nad scarified my lawn and mowed my neighbours too. I've also sown some sweetcorn, butternut squash, sweet peas and morning glory.

Now that my garden is starting to look half way presentable I'm planning to take some photos. Hopefully tomorrow night I'll be able to get some up on here.

Kat

madhouseof4

demented wrote: »

HI Madhouseof4.
I am really impressed with all your hard work and also the Greenhouse. I have just bought one and have got the top layer filled with runnerbeans, a pot of basil some tomatoes,pumpkins and courgettes. Do you keep your door rolled up during the day or do you keep it closed until the seedlings come up? It does get warm in there. Any advice would be greatfully received. Thanks Demented.:D

Thanks demented! It was a bit of work at first, but I am loving seeing everything spout. When I first sowed everything and put it in the greenhouse, I kept the door shut so that the warmth would help with germination. Now that most things have germinated, I open the door once the sun hits hits the greenhouse (about 12pm and leave it open until dusk, even taking out some of the bigger seedlings to be in the sunshine.) They all seem to be doing ok with this arrangement, but the weather has been unseasonably warm

Pandora123_2

This is my first post about our garden, so this is all the stuff DH and I have done in the last few weeks:
* prepared raised beds (harvested remaining perpetual spinach, carrots and beetroot, weeded and covered with fleece)
* put up two arches for growing beans
* put up two trellises for growing peas
* put up hanging basket stand
* put trellis on shed for growing... clematis? (found out after painting that paint is not foodsafe!)
* made frame for growing strawberries on garage roof (DH is becoming quite the garden DIY expert!)
* dug trench for raspberries; now mostly filled with amended soil and almost ready for planting
* started seeds: cucumber, tomatoes, alpine strawberry, kale, rapini, various lettuces, spinach, perpetual spinach, climbing beans, chard, rocket, mange tout, sugar snap peas, regular peas, pumpkin, winter squash, pattypan squash, mini sweet peppers, chilli peppers

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System

In my garden today, I'm going to do, absolutely nothing, only sit in a lounger and soak up the sun, drink tea, doze, listen to the birds or MP3 and be thankfull our two ducks have gone to a better home (not eaten) and now the garden is looking more it's old self. Now and again I might force myself to swap pots of plants, or shrubs in tubs in the various large trugs which hold water and provide an ideal dunking tub. I will ponder on holidays past and hopefully to come and hope nothing disturbs me. Should it get too warm, then I might pop in to see what you're doing. Bye for now. Don't work too hard.

hex2

One ill small boy = nothing much done today. I will be so glad when it is his bedtime.

I did shift the last of the lifted turf from the front ot the back, it is now stacked and covered and ready to be left for a year or so. Nice job as there are two lovely smelling shrubs next to the heap, one a viburnum, the other looks like mexican orange/mock orange.

I just wish it would rain. I have now emptied two of the waterbutts and the third is running low. I do mind using the metered water!

Islandman, I hope you enjoyed your rest. Sometimes easy to forget to stand still and enjoy the results of the effort.

Annie021063

Great thread - very inspirational.
We have just taken on our very first allotment and are loving every minute of it. Over the last couple of weeks we have started planting:
> spuds
> peas and sweet peas
> carrots
> parsnips
> Lettuce
> Beetroot
> Sprouts
> Various flowers
> other bits in cold frame (freecycled)
and are planning to plant much more.
Our new found enthusiam in gardening had us in the garden of our house all weekend - I shall post piccies of garden and allotment when I can find out how to do it. Our only costs for allotment are that of the seeds as everything else was given or found in the shed of our allotment. We have tried a new way (found in a mag) of creating a raised bed by no dig method - hopefully the potatoes will be nice. Loking forward to reading everyone elses diarys.

System

Poor old islandman. With sun loungers tilted to perfection, angled to catch the sun, he reclined into oblivien. Then came a thought, "the shed stand unusually bare now that he's sold much of the clutter", so in he went. First he moved a shelf, then he hung a hook or two, then he moved things round again, only to be told it's lunchtime. Having consumed a light meal, he discovered the sun had gone. Oh dear!. Let's find something else to do. Desparate call from daughter in Cuba, seems some Scottish tourists with her couldn't change bank of Scotland notes, could I help?. Calls to the bank and tour operator and back to Cuba sort of resolved that issue and now it seems the sun has gone for the day...........ah well, I suppose it would have been nice!.

do_it_today!

hi :hello:
I must learn to upload the piccies on here!
anyway spent this eve in the graden planting up some:
chives
corriander
red onion sets
carrots
spinach
butternut squash
lettuce
very excited but worried that I wont have enough space to grow everything I intend...
March I went mad on the old plants department - Im sure I will have to rehome some plants after a few years as there wont be enough space - unless we knock through into next doors garden (joke - but you never know!)
loving the good weather!!!

ShirleyPark_2

oooooh love everyone's photos.

I've been slowly turning my disorganised garden into something reasonable. I still have about 1/2 of the flower bed to sort, and the hedge needs trimming, I either need to get the steps out or persuade the BF to trim the hedge for me, (it'll probably be the steps !).

This was what it looked like at the end of Feb


This is what it looks like now


My raspberries are coming along nicely


Strawberries and veggies


Looking forward to reading about everyone elses progress