Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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angelrose Dec 2022 8:46pm, 23 Dec 2022 58,009 posts	0 angelrose I gave my back lawn a final mow today, mainly to pick up all the acer leaves which finished coming down in the big freeze. I've never cut it so late before.
Dvorak Dec 2022 8:51pm, 23 Dec 2022 26,340 posts	0 Dvorak Wow, that's a very late mow. The cold snap tinished off nearly everything I had left: the geraniums survived -5, but the -10 did for them. A few scraps of antirrhinum might be hanging on.
3M Jan 2023 7:58am, 9 Jan 2023 20,097 posts	0 3M I think the marauding pigeons have worked over my veg bed and removed all the baby leeks. 😕
Eynsham Red Jan 2023 8:06am, 9 Jan 2023 9,412 posts	0 Eynsham Red I overlooked putting fleece over both of our phormiums this winter and they have suffered in the hard frosts. They are now a stalk with all of the fronds hanging vertically down. I think that there is no chance of recovery 🙁
Hanneke Jan 2023 8:50am, 9 Jan 2023 97,684 posts	0 Hanneke ER there may be: dropping all their leaves is a defense mechanism. They may make new leaves from the top. How old/big are they?
Eynsham Red Jan 2023 9:03am, 9 Jan 2023 9,413 posts	0 Eynsham Red One of them is six or seven years and is planted in the ground. The other is about four years and is in a pot. We just plan to leave them for now and see what if anything happens. I did wonder whether or not to remove the dropped fronds.
Hanneke Jan 2023 2:37pm, 9 Jan 2023 97,687 posts	0 Hanneke Leave them for now and see what happens. If/when they start growing late Spring, you can remove the dead leaves.
EvilPixie Jan 2023 8:30pm, 10 Jan 2023 39,343 posts	0 EvilPixie We try to grow veg nit always successfully but we try Onions have never been success from seed and we had to buy sets (is that what they call them!?) I keep seeing on instagram that you can grow new plants and therefore onions by splitting and planting a normal onion. Is this true or tosh!?
3M Jan 2023 8:43pm, 10 Jan 2023 20,124 posts	0 3M EP, I'm sure you probably can... But not sure it's worth the hassle. I'd imagine best case you'd get about 4 onions from each one, and I don't think it's a terribly reliable technique. A bag of 50 onion sets cost me £2.99 in the local hardware shop. And they don't take as long as growing from seed either! You can grow garlic more cheaply than you can buy the "commercial" seed pr bulbs though by picking up a bulb of garlic in the local supermarket!
3M Jan 2023 8:44pm, 10 Jan 2023 20,125 posts	0 3M , splitting it up and planting the individual cloves, I meant to say! (Pressed return too soon.)