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Nov 2019
8:56pm, 6 Nov 2019
11,232 posts
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Garfield
Sounds good. Next year, I'm going to make a couple small raised beds as our soil isn't very good...dig down a foot and I found rubble of the previous house that used to be there.
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Nov 2019
9:29pm, 6 Nov 2019
11,358 posts
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Cerrertonia
I just leave Dahlias in the ground over winter, but I think it's the wet rather than cold that kills them and I think Cambs is rather drier than Wales.
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Nov 2019
10:00pm, 6 Nov 2019
70,422 posts
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Hanneke
I think you are right there Cerrertonia! I stick quite a few hardy plants into cold frames over winter, note because they need protecting from the cold but because they need protecting from too much damp AND BOY HAS IT BEEN DAMP! It doesn't stop raining. If it were warmer, I could grow rice... Thing is, plants quite literally drown/suffoctae if they sit in too much water for too long and their roots or tubers just rot away.
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Dec 2019
3:04pm, 28 Dec 2019
1,551 posts
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Flatlander
My Forsythia is just beginning to flower. Spring won't be long!
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Dec 2019
9:02pm, 28 Dec 2019
11,757 posts
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Cerrertonia
My chilli's are still fruiting (in unheated greenhouse) so we need winter to come first...
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Dec 2019
9:03pm, 28 Dec 2019
11,758 posts
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Cerrertonia
Apologies for the apostrophe.
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Dec 2019
10:10pm, 28 Dec 2019
6,298 posts
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sallykate
My climbing rose is flowering again - it starts in April and I think last year its last blossom was November. And my campanulas are still flowering. I need to cut the rose back once I've figured out when's best to do it. I also have a LOT of stuff to do on the allotment and am hoping that a few drier days will give me a window to do it.
Lots of planning to do as well: the second full year on the allotment so I know what works where (sort of - hence a bit of work to do, moving things around) and I should be able to bring a bit more neglected ground into proper cultivation.
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Dec 2019
10:17pm, 28 Dec 2019
18,948 posts
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Columba
I have been given - by way of a Christmas present - several packs of "heritage vegetable" seeds. They are all of plants which typically grow in southern Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. And here am I, nurturing a garden on high ground in mid Wales and I don't even have a greenhouse.
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Dec 2019
10:29pm, 28 Dec 2019
11,453 posts
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D2
The heritage seed growing will be interesting!! How about some cloches, or maybe just rely on global warming? 
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Dec 2019
6:13pm, 29 Dec 2019
18,954 posts
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Columba
There are 8 different packets, D2, so I'd have difficulty finding space for them all. However, most of them claim to be viable (if unopened) until 2022. Also, there's a community garden nearby, which I have vague connections with, and there are plenty of greenhouses there so I think I'll offer them some of the packets.
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