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Apr 2020
9:29am, 5 Apr 2020
11,041 posts
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Markymarkmark
I've planted a second set of seeds yesterday, just in case, Rosehip!
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Apr 2020
9:36am, 5 Apr 2020
15,536 posts
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Rosehip
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Apr 2020
10:19am, 5 Apr 2020
11,613 posts
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D2
I've planted out my little broad bean plants but covered them in cloches to keep the birds and any frost off, fingers crossed!!
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Apr 2020
8:26pm, 5 Apr 2020
12,336 posts
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Garfield
Finally got around to planting some seeds in a germinator...hopefully I haven't missed the boat, seeing I should have done it about a month ago!
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Apr 2020
10:07pm, 5 Apr 2020
70,542 posts
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Hanneke
One of my clients got these Autumn sowing broad beans! I was sceptical, so planted some in the ground and some in the greenhouse. All germinated fabulously. One plant outside got eaten by the voles and replaced by an indoor one and I tok the surplus plants home. They are currebntly flowering their socks off. They got frosted and looked like they'd die, but all but one have resprouted vigorously.
I spent yesterday and today hoe-ing, weeding and mulching my 5 large and 6 small vegetable beds. To my delight I found 5 self sown andijvie plantlets! None came up last summer. My beds have been in since 2014 and get a top dressing of good compost mixed with leaf mould and bonfire ash once a year but mine had set to concrete too! As I created two more large beds last Autumn, for which I used the bonfire ash and two whole Daleks, yes, a Dalek is a measure of compost, I have now come up short mulching darnit! But... we will be spreading aged cow muck at a client, from their own organic Herefords. I am sure they can spare a few flixitubs worth of the stuff for the last three small beds
Decided I needed a break from several weeks of relentless gardening, 7 days a week! and went for a bike ride after lunch. Sadly, I could not go anywhere because the whole of the Brecon Beacons National Park has been closed
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Apr 2020
10:07pm, 5 Apr 2020
43,526 posts
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alpenrose
I cut the grass today.
Typical, there must have been a dry spell recently as after all the winter wet my soil has turned to concrete already. I'll have to try and get out and do a bit each day from now on.
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Apr 2020
10:11pm, 5 Apr 2020
70,544 posts
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Hanneke
Ah, yes, forgot about that! When I came back from my ride at 5.30 I also decided to cut the grass! Second cut of the year and first cut of the paths in the food forest. Things are looking good! Two pears flowering their socks off similtaneously, so it looks like I might get some pears this year!
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Apr 2020
10:32pm, 5 Apr 2020
2,939 posts
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jacdaw
All broad beans are frost hardy. Not like soppy southern runner beans and French beans.
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Apr 2020
12:43am, 6 Apr 2020
19,406 posts
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Dvorak
The warm and sunny day forecast never really turned up here. But decent enough to cut about in shorts outside. So i planted a few types of seeds, including rooting out some ivy at the hedge base to plant some nasturtium seeds. Some snipping, some watering and a go at renovating my moss-bound pot blueberries.
Whilst doing that, i decided to grub up the weeds around where the pots had sat. I became aware of a presence to my side - robin was back. So i sat back and it landed about a foot away, pecked about and found a nice grub which it sat and ate whilst keeping an eye on me. It then flew just a little off and perched on the stump of a plum tree - about an inch away from another robin.
Grass: front lawn lightly cut on Wednesday. The back is always well behind. There is a strip of grass between our bounds and the footpath: if no-one ever turns up to cut it this year, I'll get some extra activity.
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Apr 2020
7:03am, 6 Apr 2020
11,049 posts
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Markymarkmark
Similar day spent pottering about after on-line church in the morning!
BBQ, ashes from fire used on beds, tidy sheds, fix new additional hooks and clips for tool storage, restack pots waiting for planting up, and so on.
And with the rain overnight, it now looks very much like a garden about to spring forth!
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