The all new 2019 growing your own thread!

dancing_star

If you are anywhere near North Yorkshire I have spare cucumber, tomatoes and peppers you could have!

Suffolk_lass

I suggest removing the damaged fruits from the strawberry plants which will stress them in a good way to encourage more fruits to set. Don't try and persevere with damaged ones or the plant knows it has fruit and stops trying to reproduce

euronorris

We must both fall under the same yellow weather warning. Had an almighty storm here yesterday evening. Scared the life out of DD (and me!). Resorted to earmuffs for her so she could eat her dinner.

Had several lightening strikes very nearby. One hit a local nursery! Some minor injuries it seems. Not sure if adults, or children or both And the local mini high street flooded pretty quickly.

Pablosmummy, how is the garden/house this morning? Hope it didnt get any worse, and you didn't get too much water in the house!! Am wondering if you are nearby and need any help? X

Pablosmummy

Thank you for the offer of help and plants but I'll be fine! The house is fine, the only issue we have is the front of our house is open to a large playing field so the wind and rain tend to blast us, once I shut the vents we are waterproof...apart from the front door which seems to be leaking a bit but a towel will sort that.
I don't think we had storms here last night, I'm in Lancashire, the hail seems to have been very localised to my town, OH who works half an hour away said it had been blazing sunshine all day. He was very shocked when he got off the train and there was mounds of hail everywhere lol.
Today is either garden centre trips or school shoes shopping so expensive either way!

unrecordings

I had a look on Ventusky (when you posted on the damage) - and things looked pretty bad over the Wirrel and further up the coast - fortunately the bad stuff didn't make it over the Pennines. Well worth a look at Ventusky:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=52.3;4.0;4&l=rain-3h

For us looks like a nice day to about 4pm then rain for the rest of the week, so I might try and get some top dressing done on the lawn, maybe some re-seeding, and potting - lots of potting. And the sowing of beans

Jazee

First job here today will be planting beans out in a bed I managed to weed yesterday between the showers, and then more weeding.

unrecordings

One more cup of tea then up & at 'em - I should be at Chatsworth, but chemo coincided with the RHS day and I didn't fancy spending the money on a day that mobility wise would have been a real pig. Maybe next year...

I did however see the great feature on Pennard on Gardeners World so resolved to buy some stuff from them - I think the feature did them proud, as their site was down all Friday night, but I was up early on Saturday and ordered some stuff (hopefully they're not overwhelmed) - then I decided to look up climbing spinach (which is not actually spinach) which I got from Nicky's...

Pablosmummy

It's stopped raining! The sun's out but according to the forecast this is the only dry day we are going to have for the rest of the week. Need to go clothes shopping first but then heading to the bigger garden centre which has just been taken over by an independent retailer so we shall see what it's like now, fingers crossed they have tomatoes, small pumpkins and cucumbers. If there's no small pumpkins I'm just gonna sow a few more seeds and hope there's still time for them to grow from scratch

zafiro1984

unrecordings wrote: »

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=52.3;4.0;4&l=rain-3h

I've just had a look at that website, it looks really useful - Thanks

unrecordings

zafiro1984 wrote: »

I've just had a look at that website, it looks really useful - Thanks

When we had the gales earlier in the year I was glued to it at maximum resolution :eek: