whos got plans to sow this weekend

[smallblueplanet]

rain forecast here all weekend - so it'll be rugby and beer for me

Shame.

[Alison]

Rain forecast here so will be mostly tidying the shed / greenhouse and potting on in the house.

[Winged one]

I hope to catch the Ireland-Wales match - the rest don't really matter this weekend!! Can do some sowing in the kitchen at the same time!!

[Norm]

waiting for warm but also for the ground to dry out a bit

Remember Python?
Waiting? WAITING? Bl**dy luxuary! Our father used to heard us kids onto the plot, before breakfast mind and breathe heavily onto the soil until it dried. Then at the first sign of more rain, we had to strip our clothes, and our skins mark you and stretch them over the land to stop the drops from touching the soil.
Tell that to the kids these days and they would'nt believe you!

[Norm]

I hope to catch the Ireland-Wales match - the rest don't really matter this weekend!! Can do some sowing in the kitchen at the same time!!

Me too and we're still up for the grand slam. Should be a good match.
All together now :- Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi,

[moggssue]

Well, weather dependent like the rest of you, but maybe shallot and onion sets on the lottie, peas and cabbage in the cold frame, and parsnips on the windowsill! Oh, and definitely will be potting on my tiny baby chillis!

[moggssue]

plus flowers for the cutting bed.

What flowers PW? I'm going to try for a cutting bed as well but was thinking that they might as well work for their living on the lottie as well, companion planting/bringing in bees etc?!

[Cutecumber]

I am steering clear of the soil, too. We've had more frosts this week and it's really dry to boot! Anyway, my soil is still full of broccoli, kale and leaf beet, so there ain't no room

It is time, however, to plant some early potatoes into sacks in the greenhouse, and to sow a couple of pots of early carrots to keep them company.

Things are just starting to get going...

[Minty]

I have planted my first early Potatoes (Rocket and Aran Pilot) and my parsnip seedlings to the allotment today, Fingers crossed. Minty

[Madasafish]

This week we have had snow and frost and now it's dry and more rain forecast for the weekend.
Pot on tomatoes and peppers in house, a few seeds in semi heated greenhouse... but basically wait.
As for outside, my early rhubarb is up... but nothing will be planted before mid April at the earliest.

[T-lady]

I have planted my first early Potatoes (Rocket and Aran Pilot) and my parsnip seedlings to the allotment today, Fingers crossed. Minty

Brilliant - if you're risking it in Derby I'm going for it here in N Lincs. The chitting spuds are getting a bit hectic and I'm dying to get them in the soil.

I put 3 earlies into a bag in the (cold) greenhouse about 3 weeks ago and they're coming up already!

[bridget mc laughlin]

I might plant some onion sets out but it depends on the weather, all my other sowings are happening inside the house

[mrdinkle]

I am gonna put in some spuds maybe. Get some more stuff ready to germinate indoors (a few toms, lettuce, courguettes etc) and tidy up ready outside. I already got some snips geminating and some indoor herbs and aubergines.

[running_muttley]

Is it too soon to plant some early potatoes in London?

[Winged one]

Aw, sorry Piskie, but tis only Wales still on for the Grand Slam (isn't it?), Ireland and Wales for the Triple Crown and either Ireland, Wales or France for the 6 Nations. So realistically, (and I fully accept I may have got the other matches wrong) France is going to Win it's match (v Scotland?), England should beat Italy but it won't matter, and the big 'un is in Dublin.

Sine Fianna Fáil, atá faoi bhaoill le hÉireann
Soldiers are we, whose lives are pledged for Ireland!!!