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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark Mar 2020 5:06pm, 20 Mar 2020 10,907 posts	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin Garfield Absolutely WS.
Flatlander Mar 2020 8:59pm, 20 Mar 2020 1,598 posts	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin Garfield I'm going to plant seeds today.
Fizz :-) Mar 2020 9:31am, 21 Mar 2020 3,603 posts	Quote Pin 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	Quote Pin 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.