April Gardening in progress - What have you been doing?

Silvertabby

GreenBucket24 said:

sammy_kaye18 said:

Have a few things starting in the greenhouse from seed, actually surprised I put the greenhouse up and all my prep to help it stay put seems to have worked so far. 
Nothing planted in the actual garden other than a blueberry bush and a mini apple tree in pots which I had to check yesterday as I wasnt convinced either was more than sticks in buckets. 
Have bits I want to do but just cant with the weather. 

Wales seems to be having rain with a healthy dose of extra rain and a side of blustery gales to top it off although today fog moved in about 2.30pm but you guessed it - still raining. 

@sammy_kaye18, I would love to plant a blueberry bush, but our summers are very short and our temperature is always colder because of the winds. Very infrequent to have lovely continuous sunny weather. During Spring to Summer in our area, it rains at night and then sunshine during the day, which i love as i can do my gardening during the sunny hours of the morning to early afternoon.

I  have 3 blueberry bushes in pots outside the conservatory.  They do well, as long as the blackbirds don't get too greedy - but I've seen them happily chomping while my (indoor) cat is screaming at them just inches away on the other side of the window.  

sammy_kaye18

What another nice day we are having here in South Wales. 
Still too wet to cut the grass but apparently we are due a whole week of dry days next week so maybe I will get to give it its first cut or at least a strim round the edges because there are lots of pretty dandelions scattered all over my garden and the bees are enjoying them. Not to mention the guinea pig and our lizard too.
I have just ordered some wildflower seeds that should come mid week so I can get them scattered and planted ready for summer hopefully so I have just made a bed along the edge of the garden using some lawn edging that I had a roll left over from and it does make a nice long bed along one side. So thats weeded and mostly filled with compost.
I spent the other day laying out weed lining and boxes to plant in so need to get some compost etc to put in those. Debating whether to give the hedge out the front a trim too and use some of the leaf matter from it to help fill boxes. 
Ive made sure today I drilled drainage holes in the boxes after watching something last night that reminded me to do so! Possibly Gardeners World and they were squash planting! 
Also learnt that strawberries and peas/beans are good companion plants so Im having a planting plan reshuffle at the minute.  
Made the mistake of ordering the wildflower seed from Thompson and Morgan so of course cauliflower seeds, yellow courgettes and more chilli seeds fell into my basket - fun fact - I cant handle spice very well at all (even cajun spice can get to me) but they were 89p so I must be able to make something out of them right? along with the basket of fire chillis and the jalapenos in my greenhouse.

Why do I do it to myself? Anyone else growing something random just because it was a good deal? 

Money_Grabber13579

I did my first sowing of carrot seeds on the couple of lovely warm days over Easter. It’s since turned cold and wet again so might have been too early - will see in a few weeks! Other than that, haven’t done much, finished off my tiny front flower bed after having dug out all the soil last year and taken the rubble out. Now has a layer of weed membrane and stones on top, so hopefully slightly easier to maintain.

ArbitraryRandom

sammy_kaye18 said: Anyone else growing something random just because it was a good deal? 

Last year I bought one of those end of season packs on sale - 24 different veg for £10 or something like that... some things I'm not going to even try growing (I know I don't have the weather for aubergines and no greenhouse), but with most things I've put a couple in the germinator and will give them a go. 

The most 'random' thing is a number of types of beans (broad bean, runner bean, dwarf french bean and sugar snap peas) that I'd not even thought about growing intentionally. 

Worst case I learn a bit and have fun messing in the garden  

~FlowerPot~

the first asparagus was ready yesterday, I had it on toast with an egg ~ yum!

Such a shame no one else seems to like it in my family as I have a whole bed of it nicely established now!!!

ALso sorted the greenhouse (finally had its winter clean up) and planted up the cucumbers