General Chat

Kay if you have any tips we would be grateful to hear them. Most of us are not experts.

thats what i was thinking Ann, rain water is so much better for the garden, i have my patio door open and fresh air blowing in i love listning to the rain, it sends me to sleep in the caravan, im just waiting for oh he has taken a girl we used to foster to pick up her 1st car, she says he is her dad and always will be which is nice, she always gets me a mothers day card too, we see her a lot, he will then be ordered to pick me up some levvingtons compost you get 3 for the price of 2, so i can be ready to add to me potatoes as there starting to grow.

I always use pots i have left over that are starting to shoot and always have a good crop. :-D

hello kay, its nice to share your stories xx

Every cloud (besides being full of rain Lol) has a silver lining etc. It will be good to get the water butt filled up. :-D

Oh how lovely a gardening thread,I will read this in full later as cant do much here today ,its very wet.

its been lovely and sunny here in shrops,but its wet today, just think it will fill our butts up :-0lol

What a week for wind and wet .....so dark this morning, will be one of those days when you need the lights on all the time...........depressing..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

green f good i dea, oh now uses his head and has even strapped the walk in polytunnel, well ive def got carott seedlings and something else but cant remember whats in that tray , really pleased myself id got some labels, so ive only forgot one, its chucking it down outside so that will be great for my new trees, i had some very thick twigs that were thick enuf to edge my path that son did for me, it will go round the garden with the fruit trees going either side.

i did promise oh it would just be a orchard but every time i go to the shop bulbs and seeds of some sort fall in my tro;;y :-D

Lesley ouch!!

The obelisks sound good Jan, we have wrought iron ones which we have geraniums (pelargoniums not hardy) that climb up them. They are in pots so brought inside in the winter.

I get cut when I try to get between the overlapping panes of glass it's so fiddly so I take my gloves off, I've just watched a short video on BBC greenhouse maintenace and that didn't help.

Jan I'm going to give Autumn King a try.

Puss and Daughter, anchored ours with wire hooked pegs that are used to anchor wire fencing, we had some left over , from another job> Certainly would not leave them un-tethered !!!!!!

at the weekend i am going to buy my compost for my hanging pots
i managed to buy baby satan some tiny gardening gloves
as he loves the gardening

but not having dirty hands so they are ideal
i always have my garden ready by easter every year
its sort of my target anything after thats a bonus

lesley there are some gardeners gloves that arnt so bulky that should save you from being cut poor thing bet there sore, stickem in a pot of salt lol only joking :-D xxx

greenfingers glad they were ok, you said you wernt sure what they were going to be like, i got some metal ones last year or the year befor, they really needed hammering in to the ground though slightest bit of wind :-0

If any one wants two willow obelisks for 19.99 then look in the Argos catalogue, that's where we got ours, about 4ft high...they are very well made, used one this morning to prop up a self seeded honeysuckle....looks good Jan

Yet again I've cut my fingers to bits trying to clean the glass in the greenhouse, has anyone got any suggestions how I can do this job without drawing blood.
:-) :-) :-)

Thanks Ann iim eep them seperate , think i got carried away when we had those warm days, hope i can play in my garden tomorrow it has that ease of calmless . xx :-D

Puss Hostas should be fine in pots, if it has just disappeared over the winter you have not necessarily lost it. They all disappear until you see little shoots growing in Spring. Helebores should be OK in pots if the pots are large enough.


Joy, my windows need cleaning if youa re down this way.

hello gardeners my new trees are beginning to have new shoots on them, the older ones are getting ready to blossom, and my climbers are looking good, even my wisteria has come back i know a lot of people have a problem growing them, hope that flowers at its by patio door so the scent may come in :-D

the sun was shinning again today
so cleaned the windows (**faints**)and had a quick tidy of the front garden
the boarders are well on the way to been bright and cheerful now
i am so pleased

Glad to be of assistance......Jan

well we had snow this afternoon
mind uncle E tipped me off it was coming

and i still put the pellets down
theres more hyacynths opening today pinks blues and yellow