What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK3.. 2013

"we're all doomed, doomed I tell you"

 

I have potted up a Rosa Mutabilis (through necessity as the terracotta pot had cracked and broken). Couldn't believe how big the rootball was as I only got it last summer Probably something to do with the Rootgrow I used.

I have also sited my new compost bin.

 

Erected Tunnel inside my conservatory to keep some local-heat for seedlings, and to hang my Metal Halide lamp over - to provide both heat at night, and additional lighting.

 

Planted up seeds:

• Climbing courgette
• Tomato seeds
• French Marigold variety Durango bee
• Longk sweet pea
• Jens Chinese lanterns

Not a lot else in this cold wind you can do outside, its amazing how dry the soil is.

Spruce

 

With this dryness,I am concerned about the Camellia by the front door and the primulas that I recently planted out in the border. The primulas look a bit limp but if I water them, the water might freeze around their roots at night?
Jenny

 

Jens water in early morning

 

Will do Spruce,
ta,
Jenny

 

Back in Feb I ordered some strawberry runners for delivery end March - was getting a bit concerned yesterday that they hadn't turned up, only to find that they had been delivered to work on the 13th after I had left for the day & someone had "helpfully" put them in my desk draw & forgot to tell me.

Amazingly plants dont look completely dead, so I left them soaking overnight & planted them up this afternoon - we will see if they make it ; Ive left them in the greenhouse for now. Im using them in my growing stuff in deep guttering up the wall project & this is not the best start.. will post a photo if they survive - they look far too sad at the moment.

 

Still nothing happening here, a week on and my gardens still covered in snow!

 

It's still too damned cold here too! But quite a few of the overwintered bulbs in the shed and cellar are shooting, so washed pots and repotted them. Potted up my order from Anglia bulbs too.