Jobs To Do In February

Poppycat

We dug up a established hydrangea plant as I dont like them and replaced it for now with some pampa grass which we got last year which didnt take very well where we put it previously.

I am planning on getting those half cut wooden logs blocks to go round a gravel path to keep the gravel at bay as our cat uses it for a toilet sometimes and some green plastic edging to keep some soil in as its same height as an old driveway to a garage

As we moved house last year most of our time and money went on the house so this year the garden is going to get some treatment abet not as much as I would like due to financial constraints and lack of experience on gardening. Mainly a pot gardener in the past.

miss_phish

Hi all, we had a fab weekend - wasn't it gorgeous?! Sowed some carrots, onions & basil we also have some cabbages in that our neighbour gave us.

Got our garden furniture out (still needs a scrub!) and power washed the paths and patio - that in itself has made a huge difference, everything just looks brighter out there.

Roll on the summer!

comping_cat

Made it into the garden yesterday - moved some bushes to make more room to plant some veg this year, and also dug over (if thats the right term!!) the areas i will be planting.

Does anyone know if i can start planting some potatoes out yet, or will it be best to wait until March (when hopefully the frost will be over?)

jennybb

Sparkleygirl, I have a variety of pea called "Twinkle" which can be planted from Feb. onwards.

Catowen, apparently it's traditional to put spuds in on Good Friday (according to those in the know at my allotment)

I'm new to all of this

ukdutypaid

Poppycat wrote: »

We dug up a established hydrangea plant as I dont like them and replaced it for now with some pampa grass....

You know what they used to say that Pampas grass signified, in a garden (front especially).

That's right Swingers, live here! lol

Yes it's time to start the sowing.. I've got me mini polly frame out. Weeded and dug the garden over.....

Let's wish us all more luck than we had last year, eh.. Whatever your success was (Peas? Pah! never had any luck so far. 3 years on the trot. now.. Same with carrots and beets... Nice big leaves, but nowt Ann Summers would sell, under the ground...

Jack's_mummy

jennybb wrote: »

Catowen, apparently it's traditional to put spuds in on Good Friday (according to those in the know at my allotment)

I'm new to all of this

Even when it is as early as this year? I'd be interested what those up the lottie think we should do in that case. I have mine chitting but no idea when they will go out

tpsjrm

Those of you who have been able to cut your lawns already are very lucky. Mine is still a sticky mess. Doesn't help that we have a visiting mole during the day and an active badger at night!

But I've been doing some 'hack and slash' on all the dead tops of the herbaceous plants in the borders, while the weather has been so good. And yesterday I was able to cut down all the willow 'whips' from my willow hedge. I got rid of the whips on the local Freecycle website, so they will be growing somewhere else - much better than turning them into chips, I always think.

Is anybody else like me - can't pass a nursery without checking it out, and buying more plants then can't find anywhere in the garden to fit them in? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Is there any hope?

annie123

I'm the same as you tpsjrm,
theres always room for just one more plant, often from the 'nearly dead' section for 25p:rotfl:

Poppycat

Yes MIL told me that one especially in front garden

ukdutypaid wrote: »

You know what they used to say that Pampas grass signified, in a garden (front especially).

That's right Swingers, live here! lol

Yes it's time to start the sowing.. I've got me mini polly frame out. Weeded and dug the garden over.....

Let's wish us all more luck than we had last year, eh.. Whatever your success was (Peas? Pah! never had any luck so far. 3 years on the trot. now.. Same with carrots and beets... Nice big leaves, but nowt Ann Summers would sell, under the ground...

Poppycat

I been planting some pansies and tiding up. Took a cutting of a purple flowering clematis hoping it will take.