Chatback #17

[burnie]

Can't get in my greenhouse, the doors frozen shut !!

[Snoop Puss]

Rhubarb roots don't usually mind being frozen, and more good news - despite the cold the newbie did view and has taken on the plot - site now full.

Thanks, TS. Put my mind at rest. Now getting very, very excited.

[burnie]

Old school rule for rhubub was to lift it and let the frost get at it, divide and re plant in the spring.

[Nicos]

I was given a chunk of thubarb root one year and put it in a bucket without soil intending to plant it on the lottie. Then completely forgot about it.
The following summer I spotted it behind the shed in full leaf.
It'd gone through a -11C period over the winter where I'd lost several shrubs. Plus no nutients and just rainwater. And it still survived just sitting in a bucket over winter!

I brought it here with me a couple years later and planted it out...and it was dead by the end of winter.....crown rot.

It's almost indestructible

[Snoop Puss]

^^ Well, I've managed to destroy two in just a few months. In fact, I might start a thread on advice for growing rhubarb, so I can get the conditions right.

Goodness me, but I'm all antsy. Really can't wait to get going.

First almond blossom has opened on our earliest tree to flower every year. And it's quite warm outside at the moment. But we'll be back into the minuses overnight tomorrow, and I really must try to be patient. I'd forgotten what waiting for the summer holidays to start was like. Well, it's just like this.

[rary]

Good afternoon, cold here today -6 in the greenhouse, then showing -5 when taking the boy's to school, though the one good thing about the snow is everybody's garden looks the same

And some animals enjoy it, she is standing there waiting for me to I kick some snow at her

[JanieB]

Just been outside to check the garden thermometer, still -4. Don’t know what it was overnight.

[Nannysally99]

Evening all, missed you Nicos, put on half a pound this week, lord knows how.
Off out early this morning to Ikea with a friend, bought stuff for our new window displays at the charity shop.
Didn’t buy much for myself, so that was good.
So cold here today, just couldn’t get warm at all. Covered in a fluffy throw to sort that out.
Hope everyone has wrapped up warm on here

[Nicos]

Daren't even get on the scales NS
Hopefully whatever I weigh now will have dropped a tad by my Monday weigh in

[Aberdeenplotter]

Evening all,

-7c here this morning. Outside tap frozen so gas blowlamp had to come out. I even had to cup it between my hands to get it to work . Car got through its MOT but needed a tyre which surprised me. I put a couple of new ones on a couple of weeks ago and the outfit I use for tyres usually checks round the whole car and says if any tyre is suss. Anyway, coud have been worse, cost me several hundred pounds this time last year.

We had a new visitor in the garden today. A Fieldfare. I got a few very poor pics of it and a 5 second film clip with 3 seconds of gorgeous pics and 2 seconds of a blur of branches and twigs. I've tried editing out the blurry bit but fell asleep trying

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All and Happy Friday Thick frost again but no snow. Have a good day

[Greenleaves]

Morning All

3-4" of snow this morning and -.4° outside. Shall be off to the plots soon to clear the tops of the tunnels. Keep warm and mind the underfoot conditions

[Nannysally99]

Morning all, cold and snowy morning here in London
Brrr
Day off, going nowhere today.
Hope you all are ok and not snowed in
Have a good one peeps

[Thelma Sanders]

Snowing heavily when I went to bed, everything was already covered when I pulled the curtains. Expected it to still be there this morning, but it is thawing quite quickly and the paths/roads are clear already. The grey sky looks like rain, rather than more snow IYKWIM?
Take care if you are out and about..

[Snoop Puss]

Lovely bird, AP. Not heard of them before. Our thrush population has plummeted. Terrible olive harvest after the drought, so there are hardly any thrush here this year. Most years there are so many they're effectively a pest, eating the olives.

More rain in the night. More almond blossom out. That's four weeks earlier than usual. And the birds over the other side of the valley are singing their hearts out. But there's a possibility of snow tomorrow and still very cold temps ahead.

Friday today. Two jobs to finish and one to start. Better get a move on.

Have a good day, everyone.