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May 2020
10:50am, 13 May 2020
19,703 posts
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Dvorak
Put stones or bricks on top of the pot, Rosehip? Or a mini-greenhouse (without all the shelves if necessary) or tomato house? Could even grow some on in either.
Greenhouse is looking more like a greenhouse ie I have shoved accumulated stuff further along the shelves and put more plants on. My first tomato seedlings don't seem to be in a rush to grow bigger (nothing like D2's advanced specimens) but a couple of my salvaged Russian Black seeds have popped up 
A grape vine looks to be forming its first grapelets - a bit early? Apple tree festooned with blossom. And the soft fruits look to be coming on even better than they appeared (which was bountiful).
The only problem might be having to water everything all the time. I think a couple of things, an acer and an azalea, may already have succumbed. In Central Scotland, this is patently ridiculous, but after February's deluges (local rainfall station 4x +, 465mm in a month) April was 5x - , 19mm). Over at St Andrews, prime arable area (and golf, of course), April had 1.8mm of rain recorded. Some farmers must be getting nervous.
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May 2020
11:34am, 13 May 2020
26,656 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Yes, I feel things got ahead, and have been knocked back, here on the edge of the Peaks it has been 2C at night for 3 nights running, all in all looking ok bar the Parsnip Debacle, which I shall bang on about for ever more. In fact, my strawberries in their pots have done so well I have started added a bit of feed. Watering been in action for weeks...
1 other thing that had gone wrong, I have a Photinia in a big pot, looks as if the wet late winter weather got to it, gone all dry, leaves dropping, some sort of fungus....
Garden Centre down the road open! Local golf course had all sorts of people playing.....social distance in play though.
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May 2020
1:40pm, 13 May 2020
15,990 posts
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Rosehip
The watering is getting to me now - so much of my garden is either raised beds or planters or big pots and my spuds are in planting bags, I've emptied the water butts and will have to deploy the hose again, which I hate doing (water meter!)
When I dug out the pond last month I was hitting groundwater, but now the top 6 inches is completely dry.
My new "cold frame" has now been made from two/three layers of big cardboard boxes stapled together and has a lid made from polycarbonate from the old greenhouse that luckily missed being put in the Hippobag and some bubble wrap. It'll do for now.
Need to build a nice permanent one for next year.
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May 2020
1:47pm, 13 May 2020
6,384 posts
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sallykate
I have a climbing rose which I planted 18 months ago against a south-facing wall and suspect it suffered recently through being underwatered and overheated. We have an irrigation system for most of our beds and pots (it's a small garden) but we don't use it in winter and haven't set it back up again yet.
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May 2020
3:33pm, 13 May 2020
11,424 posts
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Markymarkmark
I've realised it's never quite been cold enough to be a frost (yet) here, but I suspect the yellowing of my beans and courgettes is temperature related. It's quite a striking pattern since the "ribs" of the leaves are still a good healthy green, but the thinner leaf part is a bit more yellow. A couple of days of warmth and sunshine will help!
The lawn around the garden is very dry and hard - cracking away from the edges of paths and in places, within itself. I've been applying water judiciously to the veg bed for a while.... seems most of my shrubs are almost-drought resistant!
The greenhouse is looking very good now - all the bedding is filling out with extra leaves and growing well. No sign of parsnips or squashes, though. And something has nibbled the edge of a leaf on the caulis! No other sign of any pests anywhere, and no pests themselves, although I did see a couple of ants marching through - I'm guessing the new paving slab base and warmth might make an ideal home for them. Do ants eat cauliflowers, though?
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May 2020
3:34pm, 13 May 2020
11,425 posts
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Markymarkmark
Oh, and loads of green blackcurrant berries formed.
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May 2020
5:06pm, 13 May 2020
48,501 posts
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Diogenes
I think the grass seed i sowed last week has had it.
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May 2020
5:34pm, 13 May 2020
19,705 posts
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Dvorak
Some of my soft fruit: gooseberries to the front, blackcurrants left, redcurrant right. Some rasps in aboot. Bees buzzing around the apple blossom.
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May 2020
8:49pm, 13 May 2020
19,746 posts
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Columba
Hanneke, you could try the Organic Gardening Association? They have heritage varieties.
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May 2020
8:56pm, 13 May 2020
15,999 posts
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Rosehip
Looks like tonight is the last of the cold ones here - liberal bubble wrap and random packaging plastics have bee applied, but hopefully tomorrow is plant it out and keep fingers crossed today day.
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