What should we be doing in the garden?

[poppypiesdad]

This is all because I would like to plant some wild garlic in the garden but it should have been done in the autumn

Sue , I don't know why but don't plant wild garlic in your garden , restrict it to pots , for some reason , can't for the life of me remember why .....will go and hunt .

Jamie

[jansman]

Set some Elephant Garlic today. Bit late as it needs a period of cold to set roots. Anyhow, we shall see. I have blackcurrants to plant ASAP and Asparagus to plant too. Rasperries to prune. Goona set some peas soon too. Last year I grew 'Champion Of England' a climbing pea that hit 9 foot tall! Brilliant! Lettuce soon(remember it doesn't germinate well above 12 degree C. ). Never a dull moment.

[short circuit]

weeding...

[Arzosah]

This is all because I would like to plant some wild garlic in the garden but it should have been done in the autumn

Sue , I don't know why but don't plant wild garlic in your garden , restrict it to pots , for some reason , can't for the life of me remember why .....will go and hunt .

Jamie

RHS says its because they have a spreading habit: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/pro ... px?pid=384

Sounds good to me! I found 100 seeds on ebay for 99p plus 67p postage, I think I'll buy them!

**dreams of a lawn of wild garlic**

[Erinlouiser]

well so far I have started off my tomato, chilli and pepper plants indoors, have spent alot of time recently getting all my growing area's ready, we have a large number of raised beds in the front garden now built from old pallets that we broke down and remade into raised beds and the best bit they didn't cost a penny and I love the way they look we have dug over the soil and added compost.

I have my little planting calendar complete so I know what I need to plant and when and for this year I have made a net covering for my broccoli and cauliflower raised beds to keep the bugs out - the proper netting was very exspensive so after looking at some in the garden centre I decided to try using net curtain material as it was a fraction of the price,will be an interesting experiment if either way i suppose

Have been sorting through all my plastic plant pots from last year so I can recycle them for my seedlings this year.

also just started chitting my potatoes as they will be grown in bags this year so I can put them out a little bit earlier in the green house to get them started.

I got some little beetroot and cabbage seedlings at the beginning of march last year from the garden centre so I am now starting a few off indoors and praying the weather warms up soon so they can go outside.

I think the best thing for this time of year is to plan plan plan so when (if) the weather improves you are ready to go

[Arzosah]

I ordered the wild garlic, and it arrived, beautifully packed - trouble is, the seed packet says plant in the autumn for a spring crop like normal garlic bulbs, I suppose. Ah well, I've got them now for October!

Also been having a think about my soil - its all very clay-ey, very heavy and wet, and some plants like that, but others hate it. I've been noodling what to do, and at one stage had a fantasy of going down to the Sussex coast and loading up my shopping trolley with sand and chalk thats fallen from the cliffs bad me! Anyway, I've just had a *huge* realisation ... there's lots of chalk pebbles in my garden, used as landscaping - used very badly, I've chucked half of them away as they've gone mossy and horrible, they had no membrane underneath, just a thin layer to disguise what was going on.

Eureka! I've had a go on one with a hammer, and its fine - disintegrates to dust and tiny bits, which I can scatter on the soil and work in gradually. I'll just do it on one border first, but I'm *so* pleased to have found this solution to soil quality. Got compost, my own and bought, and coffee grounds, and eggshells, and leaves that are decomposing quietly in heaps in the garden, but this will add drainage really well. My previous garden was very chalky and the Mediterranean herbs absolutely loved it.

[The-Great-Nothing]

Hi

Got my second hand green house put up today. Just need 2 bits of glass to replace the broken ones and she is good to go!

Chuffed



Cheers

Matt

[ForgeCorvus]

Hi

Got my second hand green house put up today. Just need 2 bits of glass to replace the broken ones and she is good to go!

Git!!

I'll correct that

Lucky git!!!

[Arzosah]

Admirably succinct, both of you

Loving the greenhouse ... looks like you're going to plant some of it straight into the ground, yes? I know its not really survival related, but I keep thinking of fresh lemons from a lemon tree ....

[diamond lil]

I'm not doing anything up here until April, I start too early every year and lose everything.