Kitchen Garden Forum

Here in always Sunny Quedgeley,I woke to find everywhere under snow,and now again at 3pm another very heavy hail and snow storm occuring.
When "NEW" gardeners post on here about wanting to sow seeds and plant out small plants,from the middle of February onwards, and are almost always impossible to convince that patience is the gardeners best friend; sometimes!

Today is the perfect answer, Old Mother Nature, is very unforgiving to the unwary!

Cheers!

It's pretty damn unforgiving to the wary too

Every year my plants get clobbered by something unexpected; snow on the late May Bank Holiday, a monsoon in July, a heatwave in April, you name it, we've had it.

I managed to persuade myself that it would be better not to plant out my broad beans yesterday and I am really glad I did after the cold night. -3.8 in my garden overnight. They are outgrowing their pots so I think I will repot tomorrow and wait a few more days. But we did put our potatoes in yesterday because it was such a lovely day hope they are okay and not too much of a shock for them.

It's now 8pm and snowing again,though the earlier lots did not lie,too warm.

Have just put on the heaters on in the GH,and brought into the house,my pots of tomato and dwarf french bean plants; just in case, better to be sure than sorry!

Tomorrow is another day.

Cheers

Well here is the 'summer' CFS forecast as on the Metcheck web site.

April : Cooler and drier than average
May : Slightly warmer and drier than average
June : Warmer than average but average rainfall
July : Warmer and drier than average
August : Slightly warmer and wetter than average

Looks like we might have wait on the outdoor sowings and keep things in the greenhouse a bit longer! Then what a rush.

i suppose we are lucky here in s wales,just a small amount of snow falling and not sticking

Hmm...don't like the sound of that 'wetter than average' August. Doesn't bode well for blight & outdoor toms/peppers/later spuds. My hope springs eternal.

Vivien

Yes! Vivien.

To be a gardener, you have to have "Faith".

Plant a small seed seed into a pot or even the ground, and what a surprise,when a tiny little green shoot appears, pure joy!

Cheers

Trying to decide whether it's worth dragging my automatic irrigation system out of the garage where it's been stored during winter and setting it up again.Maybe I should just let the rainclouds do their work. It's such a performance unblocking all the little water nozzles every spring which have got gummed up with limescale. Can't find any way of eliminating this problem.

I still haven't planted any seeds yet. I think it's still too cold. Haven't put the onions or garlic in yet either. I'll leave it until the middle of the month and then see how things go. The plants catch up with themselves anyway.

Don't like the sound of the August forcast wither. When we went camping last year we were in waterproofs for 3 days then. Still, never mind. Will have to buy a new pair anyway cos mine have all ripped with the constant use