Has anyone grown anything yet?

Not done anything at all so far this year - but we don't grow annuals (apart from veg).

 

I've sowed loads, but all of it in the house so far, and way behind the same time last year.

In fact, I only sowed my tomatoes and peppers yesterday, along with a shed load more marigolds (if nothing else, I will have a garden stuffed with marigolds this year! ), and have sort of run out of room again.

My onions have been retired to the front porch, which is bright but cold, so they have stalled, and my overwintering hardy fuchsias etc have now been evicted to the greenhouse from the porch - they were used to the cold, so are doing fine. My tree lillies have sprouted well in their pots in the greenhouse, but I am dying to get them out so they get as much time as possible to get to height.

Even in the warmth of the house though, some stuff is very reluctant to germinate - my asarina scandens haven't really done much (a handful have shown their heads above soil), and my pansy padparaja are even worse (I think four have germinated, and one of those is as lanky as could be);

I'm now debating whether I should sow my cucumbers and courgettes indoors this weekend to get them started, or wait a couple of weeks and start them off in the greenhouse?

I'm even considering starting my three varieties of nasturtiums off in seed cells in the house, just so that I have some greenery and flowers by June?

Starting to think I am bad luck to the gardening world though - since I really started in earnest last year we have had a washout of a summer, and now we have had the coldest spring for 50 years

 

I would delay sowing cucumbers for at least a fortnight FC. Maybe sow the courgettes now if you have room.

 

I bought loads of the fibre pots at the pound shop the other day John, and some metal foil trays that I can use to stand them in, so I might sow them and cram them into the last morsel of free space on my shelving - thanks John

 

I started a bit later this year with most things (apart from the giant onions for the competition), some of the tougher seedlings are shivering in the greenhouse, like lettuce, spinach, chard etc. I have some carrots and beetroot in modules as an experiment, they need to go outside asap but the soil is frozen solid here. I think I'll lose them. My onions sets are also queued up waiting to be planted, I've kick-started them in the greenhouse in seed trays but they will soon outgrow those.

I started some early spuds in the greenhouse, they are doing OK. All my annuals and 'free' RHS seeds have started geminating and will need pricking out over the next week. My tomatoes are looking good inside my grow box. Going by the calendar I'm way behind a 'normal' year, but I'm lucky I started later given the cold snap.

 

We can but live in hope that we get a similarly late end to the summer?

 

Although we haven't planted anything this year, we planted our onions and garlic in November.