WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

I cut the grass dressed in Thermal Top, Cardigan, Body Warmer and Fleece.....oh and Trousers. Bitter cold with nice bright Sun though.

 

Offloaded some tomato plants onto Mum. Sowed Kabocha pumpkin seeds. Lettuce and cabbage still in the greenhouse but dragged in overnight last night (including the hydrangeas) it was indeed freezing and a little snowy. Might have to do the same again tonight.

Really need to pot up some tomato plants but just don't know where to put them as it's still so annoyingly cold. I was hoping mid-April temps might be looking better but maybe not.

Was planning to sow some salad onions as filler crop this weekend but can't decide now... Should I top up the bed with my elephant garlic in (lots of space as I only planted 4 mono-bulbs) or in between the lower onion crops which makes them much easier to look after (I have a very small plot, on a hill, so crops at the top tend to be the "left alone" stuff to avoid scrambling up to get them!)

Saying that, I've just gone to pull my washing in and it's snowing. So maybe I should start the onions off inside and transplant them out in a bit... stupid April!

 

Potted up a tray of Cosmos and prepared another batch of compost for potting up more seedlings over the next day or two.

Have to go to the GC to get some more M P compost at some point and to get another Blueberry plant too.
Brought most of the plants/ seedlings in for tonight as it's dipping to -5 here tonight. Only left a few trays in the greenhouse in the bubble wrapped section which once again have 4 layers of fleece over them as well.

 

Took the glass out of three sides of the greenhouse, on the allotment, as that is the only way to get the weeds out growing between the cacti growing there.
And I've got the wounds to prove it.

 

Technically, I've done nothing in the garden today due to a raging blizzard* - inside, I finally got around to sowing some things I got from America. Three each of passiflora incarnata, 4 O'Clocks, moon flowers and hummingbird vine (I hold out little hope of attracting any hummingbirds in Bedfordshire though lol). Fingers crossed something grows

*Okay, slight exaggeration, but I feel the snow was most uncalled for - I hope everyone's gardens weren't too affected.

 

Thanks @EmmaJane no mine wasn't but we did get a few snow Flores this afternoon.
Pricked out some more marigolds and potted on some lupins.

 

Played a very boring game of moving everything out of GH to start hardening off and then moving back in when it snowed. Had several rounds of this and then gave up. It was freezing at times so I retired to the shed, which was a snuggly 15 degees. Had a tidy up and a shift around to make some space for when Tom’s are ready to be pricked out. Pricked out Cosmos and Calendula.

Rusty

 

How long does it take for your 4 O'Clocks to germinate. Mine seem to take forever and I believe some of them won't ever!

I get lots of hummingbirds here. They really love my salvia. I always have a feeder out for when they start coming around in the summer so they won't be disappointed by slow flowering.

 

This is the first time I've tried them so I'm not sure - Google reckoned 7-10 days but it's lead me astray before. I'll keep in mind it may take a while and not give up too early so thanks for that

I wish I got hummingbirds, the most unusual thing I've had in my garden is a newt - I'd be up for a swap if you are lol

@Logan glad to hear it - hope your marigolds and lupins do well

 

If you mean Mirabilis jalapa, I have now sown three times and never got them to germinate ... yet they grow wild here. I have tried cultivated and wild but no success but I am sowing direct in the ground. I have given up now,

 

I have tried several times in the past too......zilch!!

 

4 o'clock plants sowed 6 seeds now have 6 plants.
I sowed at 75-80f up in just over a week.

 

QUOTE="EmmaJane, post: 1310866, member: 25151"]@Logan glad to hear it - hope your marigolds and lupins do well[/QUOTE]
Thank you @EmmaJane