2018 Calendar

[Chestnut]

February pic

Taken from a different angle, just to prove that carpet digging has continued down the slope. Otherwise, just a few corners dug and weeded

[Gillykat]

A belated Feb pic of my beloved disaster area.

Much to be done, but it'll all come good.

Mine's like that too Like you, I'm trying not to panic and focusing on a job at a time and come late march/April it'll look a lot better.....and organised!

[Penellype]

March - the first day of spring!

As its -4, blowing a gale and snowing out there, the drifts are about a foot deep and you can't see anything but snow anyway, I decided to be a wimp and do the photos through the windows!

Back garden:



The tunnel on the left was intended to house buckets of potatoes by now, but is currently protecting 4 buckets of calabrese and 1 each of carrots, broad beans and corn salad. There is also a bucket of compost that contained swede until a couple of days ago, keeping dry as I need it for potatoes when the weather relents. I haven't removed last night's snow from the tunnel - it has blown off.
No changes to the contents of the cloches visible through the archway - these are still covering spinach and beetroot. The kale, mooli and spring cabbage on the veg garden are also still there. The growhouse is also unchanged from last month. Round the back of the garage the carrot cage now contains a lone pot of chinese celery and the 3 brokali plants are under nets and plastic covers on the raised beds which have been converted to hotbeds. There is a single bucket of Arran Pilot potatoes on there too - no idea if it will survive this brutal weather. The PSB is taking its chances - at least the fence in that corner protects it somewhat from the easterly wind. The strawberries are covered with snow.
Against the fence at the far end of the veg garden I have planted onions under a plastic cloche. Near the apple tree I have put a piece of thick clear plastic down to protect that bit of soil from the worst of the wet when the snow melts. I have Meteor peas which will be ready to plant there in about a week's time

Front garden:



Snow is not as deep here as a lot of it melted in the sun yesterday and it is protected from the easterly wind by the house.

[Guest]

Well that solves my lawn issue.

[veggiechicken]

March 2nd Brrrrrrrrrrrrr

[bario1]

March 3rd

[Jungle Jane]

My garden looks a state at the moment & I'm a bit worried about my onions in the raised bed,broad beans & peas might be ok,garlics still looks ok in the last photo. Its a mess because I moved that pile of branches to make a no snow area for the bird food (the two middle photos are from a couple of days ago when the snow covered everything) I will tidy up soon & probably buy some onion sets I’ll be surprised if mine have survived,I won’t buy them yet though there’s still a chance they’re ok

[veggiechicken]

Snow's gone and an interesting sky this evening.

[Chestnut]

March



Frozen ground has hindered progress a little, but I have now cleared one strip of carpet down to the compost bin and so the terracing can finally begin. Hopefully another 3-4 days digging and I should be able to get 3 of 6 beds in this winter

[Greenleaves]

A view of the plots taken this morning....both there somewhere

[Penellype]

April, and everything still looking very wintery. I've had a look back at last year's photos - the wiegela bush, white currant, apple, blueberries, strawberries and clematis all looked noticeably green, the early potatoes had about 4 inches of greenery, the first carrots were a couple of inches tall and the grass looked like it needed cutting...



Potatoes and calabrese under the tunnel



Corn salad and broad beans looking miserable in the buckets, buds only just starting to break on the currant and apple tree and Meteor peas behind the sheet of polycarbonate. The strawberry plants on the fence have no new growth at all yet.



Potatoes and seedlings in the growhouse, carrots under the plastic cloche (yet to germinate), spinach in the covered saladgrow planter (yet to germinate), potatoes under the covers on the raised beds (foliage yet to appear). The tree in the bucket is an apricot which is just starting to show some signs of buds breaking (apricots flower in March). Yes the clematis is still growing up the archway, but there are no leaves yet.



Blueberries in the fruit cage are just starting to break their buds. Strawberries looking miserable, potatoes under the covers, and PSB which is nearly ready to start cutting.



Just about everything under covers including spring cabbage (nearly ready), mooli (pathetically small), spinach (barely growing), beetroot (barely growing) and onions (starting to appear). There are brokali, herbs and kale (out of picture) that are not covered up.

[veggiechicken]

April 5th.
Starting to green up. Stella Cherry tree on the right in full bloom.

[nickdub]

What we need is a Google street-view type function on here, so we could take a virtual tour round people's plots - I bet a few would get lost in my wilderness, never to be heard from again. :-)

[Chestnut]

April

Mid April now. Rhubarb leafing up nicely, PSB is sprouting, and leaves have appeared on the fruit bushes I planted over winter

[Jungle Jane]

Mid April in the Garden

I finally got round to mowing the lawn yesterday it looks a bit tidier out there now. There’s overwintered onions & some strawberries planted in the raised bed at the bottom of the garden with peas & broad beans in the adjacent bed. My garlic’s planted in the border in the bottom left of the photo. These pale yellow tulips open up during the day & then close up at night,there used to be just one flower,then last year there was two & this year there’s three,I didn’t plant it I wouldn’t of planted just one bulb in a bed,I don’t know how it got there but they’re lovely aren’t they