Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark Mar 2020 5:06pm, 20 Mar 2020 10,907 posts	0 Markymarkmark I've just been out and bought cabbage, calabrese 🥦, purple sprouting broccoli, leeks and carrot 🥕 plants, to give me a bout of a leg up early in the season. They'll sit under the cloche for a few days to finish hardening off, and to give me time to dig over and de slug the veg bed. I've also got tomato 🍅, squash, courgette French bean and pea seeds to start off. Plus whatever veg seeds I find in the shed! And sweet peas because we need something beautiful, as well as edibles. Planning to order a greenhouse later. 😊
Rosehip Mar 2020 7:50pm, 20 Mar 2020 15,373 posts	0 Rosehip veg plant shopping tomorrow - hopefully. yesterday's foray yielded nothing Also need some more strawberry plants, mine seemed to have drowned this winter
Garfield Mar 2020 8:49pm, 20 Mar 2020 12,199 posts	0 Garfield I need more strawberry plants...and some netting to keep the birds from munching on them this year.
Wriggling Snake Mar 2020 8:51pm, 20 Mar 2020 25,912 posts	0 Wriggling Snake One of the things that might come out of all this is people growing food, as well having an eye out for others, fingers crossed.
Garfield Mar 2020 8:56pm, 20 Mar 2020 12,200 posts	0 Garfield Absolutely WS.
Flatlander Mar 2020 8:59pm, 20 Mar 2020 1,598 posts	0 Flatlander In these times, perhaps it would be prudent for allotment holders and farmers to review the security of their crops and livestock, although how one would do this I can't imagine.
Columba Mar 2020 9:29pm, 20 Mar 2020 19,471 posts	0 Columba Broad beans beginning to germinate. I don't have a greenhouse so they are on a windowsill where it is unlikely the mice will get them.
Garfield Mar 2020 8:29am, 21 Mar 2020 12,201 posts	0 Garfield I'm going to plant seeds today.
Fizz :-) Mar 2020 9:31am, 21 Mar 2020 3,603 posts	0 Fizz :-) My tomatoes and cucumber sowed last weekend have already germinated. You’ve got to love a seed, they’re amazing.
Dvorak Mar 2020 10:30am, 21 Mar 2020 19,280 posts	0 Dvorak My fruit list Blackcurrants, five varieties Redcurrants, maybe two Whitecurrants Gooseberries, green, yellow and red, four or five Raspberries, red, yellow and semi-wild Strawberries, four plus alpines Blueberries, two Boysenberries (every year, a disappointment) Jostaberry (just bought) Apple (three varieties on a family tree) Cherries, two Pear Gage Rhubarb Grapes, two Kiwi fruit Fig Gojiberry Tayberries, thornless, and not Bramble Loganberry I'd meant to be out doing (although a week past a debiking, I'm still a bit limited) but it's pretty cold, and not sunny so far. I could always wrap up and get snipping on the rose arch.