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Cerrertonia May 2020 8:42am, 7 May 2020 12,456 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia Nice pic, rosehip. I've had lettuce & rocket for a while, but the radishes are still pretty small.
sallykate May 2020 10:46am, 7 May 2020 6,359 posts	Quote Pin sallykate My dahlias haven't started to show yet - should they have? I made a note last year at the beginning of June that they were getting nibbled by snails (and that Strulch helped a bit) but I didn't note when they first started poking through. I might plant more French beans to make up for nibbled ones. I've only sown five runners anyway and they seem fine but it'll be at least a week before they go in the ground (trying root trainers).
Cerrertonia May 2020 1:41pm, 7 May 2020 12,458 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia My dahlias are being nibbled by snails currently. Last year I remember they were blackened by frost in mid-May, so I don't think they're especially early.
sallykate May 2020 2:53pm, 7 May 2020 6,361 posts	Quote Pin sallykate I'll be annoyed if they've decided they've had it, it leaves a bit of a space to fill - maybe it was just to wet for them or something this winter (I don't lift them).
Diogenes May 2020 3:01pm, 7 May 2020 48,319 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Any top tips on sowing grass seed?
Dvorak May 2020 7:57pm, 7 May 2020 19,672 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Sow lots and keep it watered. Or preferably, buy turf. My attempts, to oversow to thicken a lawn and combat the moss; and to repair patches, were not a tremendous success. The bits which had patch repair (a lot of coir and a very little seed) went better. I do have some lovely moss though, and that's very eco, it seems. Actually, compared to some of the lawns I'm seeing, I'm doing not bad. The early season dryness is being brutal on ones which were shaky to begin with. Although municipal grass is abundant. Ask the Cooncil Actually, ask D2 - she sowed whole meadows last year or the one before. Planted dahlias today, sowed sweet peas, and put a couple of sunflowers in the ground. Not in the funereal sense, I hope.
Rosehip May 2020 8:11pm, 7 May 2020 15,931 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip Also sowed some sweet peas today Having not had much luck with usual runner bean germination, last week I sowed about 20 of a dwarf variety - I think every single one has come up. There might be "Hestia" in the flower borders in the front garden this year, but that's OK; husband likes runners
Columba May 2020 9:50pm, 7 May 2020 19,712 posts	Quote Pin Columba I like sweet peas, especially for the scent. But last year's ones got so covered in greenfly that I haven't bothered with any this year.
Fizz :-) May 2020 9:51pm, 7 May 2020 3,762 posts	Quote Pin Fizz :-) So it’s not too late for sweet peas? Something (slug, pigeon, pheasant?) has eaten the sweet peas that I planted out a couple of weeks ago, but I still have some seeds left.
Rosehip May 2020 10:06pm, 7 May 2020 15,936 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip It's later than the packet says - but I figured nothing to lose really...