21-02-2013, 11:34 AM
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Re: The Gardening Year 2013
Originally Posted by plantman
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Moyra, my apologies for missing your last post but better late than never they say...
I don't actually belong to a gardening forum, I tend just to find a forum when I need to find a solution to a problem...
so maybe it's time I looked in on that one, thanks..I succumbed to temptation this afternoon and set seed for my tomatoes and sweet peppers, which I left on the windowsill in the spare room, and I will prick them out and move them into the conservatory in a couple of weeks where I will grow them on until the greenhouse is warm enough in April or early May.
Happy days....
I will be sowing my tomato seeds in a couple of weeks when I return from Norfolk Makes you feel Spring is on the way when you start sowing seeds, chitting potatoes etc
I am always pleased when February is out of the way as you feel the worst of the Winter is over then
21-02-2013, 11:38 AM
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Thank you for recommending Gardeners Corner Moyra. I have been a member of Gardenersclick, which Chris Beardshaw organised. I was a member for a couple of years, but it has recently closed down. I am in the process of signing up to Gardeners Corner, so thank you again.We have not really got started in the garden yet this year and it's all looking a bit tatty. I noticed yesterday that B & Q have sweet peas in pots for sale already and even the 10 week stock, but I think it's too early just yet. I've not even pruned the roses, or cleared up the last of the dead leaves and debris winter has left behind. Must get going.
21-02-2013, 12:59 PM
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I confess I am a 'fair weather' gardener.I don't like the cold, so I am happy working in the greenhouse but at the moment there isn't much to do in there...apart from tidying and making room for all the trays and pots.
We did do an autumn tidy and spread rotted manure around - so ours is just a bit tatty too.
I'll have a look at Gardeners Corner, I have never belonged to any forum before this but quite like the idea of one for gardeners.
Question :- how do you all clean your pots? Do you use something like Jeyes Fluid or just soapy water?
02-03-2013, 09:49 AM
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My tomatoes and sweet peppers have now germinated so I've put them into the conservatory, where it is cooler, frost free and lighter, so they can grow on for a few weeks. My new spuds haven't chitted that well, but I'm sure they will be OK so I will plant them today regardless, at around 6" deep and 12" apart and await events. I'm also turning out one of the compost heaps and mulching around the fruit trees and bushes with it..
03-03-2013, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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Sounds like you are all up to date Barry I haven't set foot in the garden yet only to look at the garlic . It is still too cold for me..
03-03-2013, 02:03 PM
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We have had a lovely couple of days (including today) so I have been out and raked up more leaves and debris, raked thatch out of the lawns and also pruned the roses. Still no sign of the delphiniums yet, but ther are lots of things sprutting and the soil is beginning to dry out a bit. Has anyone mowed their grass yet?03-03-2013, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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Just been out for a look and the Pink Hellebore I planted in a dark corner last autumn is in flower
I put three in a couple of years ago, all different colours, in a group and they are now all the same colour 
I wrapped up warm and toddled to the greenhouse - I reckon I've got 30 geraniums in flower. Some are cuttings but most are last years that I simply dug up and potted.
I'm pleased and it will give my containers instant colour.
My only moan is that I've got white fly in the greenhouse - despite my heavy spraying of garlic and hanging those yellow sticky thingys up
The fuschia cuttings are smothered .. I've sprayed with a bug spray this time!Hope the snow clears soon Pixie
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