Awful weather - typical Brits talk

LessImpecunious

2P - Garden is quite big, though veg plot not as big as it could be (trying to extend it at the moment). Tend to try to grow quite a few varieties of things as you never know what's going to grow well (or appeal to slugs and other assorted varmints) in any one year… The oriental salad/greens sometimes come in mixed packs (as Dusty mentioned), and they just occupy last year's tomato/cucumber pots (topped up with a little fresh compost) in the greenhouse overwinter… Will have to be eaten and pots refilled soon, new tomato plants will be looking for a home shortly…

Your Dropwort looks like my bolting parsley 😁 That's another thing I've been growing in the greenhouse overwinter, hoping for seed…

twopenny

Before I forget here's an article about encouraging plants to grow

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-sound-of-rain-makes-seeds-grow-faster-mit/

I'll have to start playing my cd of rainforest 😄

For a chuckle the inserted link to the plant at work is good

twopenny

Looked out the window this morning and the first rose of summer is blooming!

That's on New Dawn.

I don't count the little musk Cornelia which gives me little ones on and off through winter.

Farway

Blue sky & sun again, cold wind, again

Well done on first rose 2P, sure signs of summer, which is why I'm still waiting here. New AI avatar or did I not notice?

Lovely lakes pics Wort, very tranquil looking

Quick, free P & P at Fothergill's this weekend. 😂

Actually, no rush, looking at prices of seeds, saving your own could be a very good investment this year. I hope my Cobra climbing French at least grow a few to save, likewise the runners. Cobra are £4.49 a packet now 😮, as are runners and many peas, broad beans £3.49. I'll try & get more organised for seed saving, old envelopes bunged in a biscuit tin are not ideal. I wonder if days of reasonable seeds ar over? No handy Lidl etc here

Out weak feed & water front pots first thing, it's getting dry now & no rain due for a bit. I have borage popping up, another one of my "Forever plants" it seems, love them, so easy & just for the bees and flowers

On popping up, more runners have shown up, the Desiree ones this time. Just as well because the other ones, Celebration, are blind, just stalk & no leaf, maybe something will happen or they are done for before they have started

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81975243#Comment_81975243

snails must have the same senses, spot of rain gets their gastric juices flowing 😂

Today, first canna? It's survived three winters outside, but only flowered once, maybe this year?

and my mucky purple aquilegia

Dustyevsky

Wow! I missed wort's stunning Lake District photos yesterday, being too knaquerd to do catch-up last night. What glorious weather and views you captured! 😍

And I missed early comments this morning due to losing the Internet. 😱Two Openreach guys 'just happened' to be rewiring a pole in next door's garden, but after investigations, they declared “This has nothing to do with us.” 🙄Anyway, after they'd gone, I tried the old 'switch it all off and on again' trick….and bingo, it's back. 😁

It seems Less and I do similar things with salad crops over winter. It's a slight lottery, but recent winters haven't troubled the orientals, or the closer-to-home greens under cover. Outdoors, the wetness that goes with mild winters doesn't suit some crops, like chard. It remains to be seen how the Cottager's Kale I've begun growing will fare.

I gargled Water Dropwort to see if it was what we kids called ‘water parsnip.’ I think it must be. Anyway the YT suggestion I got was actually useful and fun, so here it is:

https://www.tiktok.com/@davetheplantman/video/7629400027915586818

IMO Dave is highly entertaining. Check out his Japanese Knotweed video if you want a good laugh and like dogs. We need more like him.😇

Work went well at my friend's place yesterday, so she now has a new border to fill with shrubs.😊 We'll maybe tour some GCs next week. You might remember us choosing a tree for the rear garden in winter 24/25. She was somewhat reluctant, fearing that it might grow too large, but eventually we settled on Malus toringo 'Scarlett,' which wouldn't become huge. We couldn't track any down locally, but one of the GC's ordered one and didn't mark-up the price either. 😀 Anyway, it looked OK last spring, but this year it's magnificent!

Dustyevsky

I missed Farway's post again, after rushing through mine.

The aquilegia goes very well with the honesty.🙂 If I could guarantee no fancy bi-colours, doubles, or triples I'd put aquilegias in the wildlife area by the stream. After all, they're resistant to deer and slugs etc. Plants there need to be tough, and look natural. Some things do too well, though.😮 I sent Mr Canute some valerian seed via the stream. I'm sure he'll love it. 🤣

I'm spending the glorious weather potting-on, 😔but I have risked a courgette out of doors on the muck and chipped wood heap. It will either do very well, or succumb to late low temperatures. Two more in the poly, so maybe a race. One has flowers, but I'll pull them off at this point. 😉

greenbee

I've just replanted some of the strawberries I dug up yesterday/day before. They're looking very sorry for themselves. I hope they perk up soon! I need to get the rest of them in to the unused spaces tomorrow and see how many survive. Of course, the ones in the cracks in the paving are looking fabulous - maybe I should have transplanted those!

wort

It was frosty on the grass this morning. But turned into a lovely day without the cold winds. Early finish meant I could sit outside with a book and eat tea .

Dusty that tree is tree_mendous😜 it's a stunning volour .

LessImpecunious

Dusty - It seems Less and I do similar things with salad crops over winter. It's a slight lottery, but recent winters haven't troubled the orientals, or the closer-to-home greens under cover. Outdoors, the wetness that goes with mild winters doesn't suit some crops, like chard. It remains to be seen how the Cottager's Kale I've begun growing will fare.

If the wet doesn't get them here the cold will…or more often a cold snap which softens them up for a damp mild spell to turn everything to mush… But, this year, in fact, some chard have actually managed to get through the winter, and we've even had a picking, and another one due, from the regrowth. You should be OK with Cottager's Kale, which is an exception here, have plants which have over-two-wintered (and I only realised this winter what they were!). Currently producing edible, if a little spindly, flowering shoots…

Have been waiting a few days to get this pic of Sunset apple blossom, just opening, with cherry Stella adjacent - latter just starting to go over, though I'm sure I have a pic from a few years ago with both in full bloom together…

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on World Penguin Day 🐧😊

Things are a bit more normal here - my ears are playing the game properly now and my wrist/s are slightly happier with an ergonomic keyboard at work, and not being on my phone/laptop at home🙂

Himself has been in BottomLeftLandia this week, building Golf Pods. It's unbelievable the money people will spend on such nonsense when they're only a bit of a shed, but fancy. He said the weather down there's been beautiful and he'll need suncream next week 😎

I've an aquilegia out, it's a mucky lovely blue and white colour with intricate twisty bits at the top - it makes my heart smile that such things exist ☺️ That's all my gardening news - I haven't got the toms or sweetpeas potted on or the tatties in 😐️ The weeds have got the run of the place out there so they're on today's To Do list. Once himself peels his erse outta bed he'll be grass cutting and helping me out there in general.

Who was it mentioned crushed up eggs shells for toms and tealeaves for roses, so I've tubs of each sat on my microwave and the tea will be …scattered? buried…? round the roses today. I'll check when I'm out but I don't think I'm far off my first rose you know. Ooh giggidy. Next door's wisteria is coming on but is a good while behind yours 2p! My montana wosname is coming on rightly but whatever the thing next to it is is all top and no bottom. The top has some leaves and a bit of breadth to the stems but the bottom is like a 4ft long dehydrated worm. I'll leave it alone for this year but next year it's getting chopped right down.

OT another nice morning. We've had a wave of beautiful mornings, some a bit frosty but some not, and the days have been near perfect (apart from the windy ones) 7' currently with a high of 17 to come 🤗

Right pics next. Oh fill this place with your pics wort, they're lovely and peaceful ☺️