This sodding weather is ruining my garden. I feel so crestfallen, anyone else?

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It's just relentlessly horrible. We'd got a real head start on seedlings this year, loads of lovely healthy little plants almost ready to go in...they're now either drowning outside or going leggy and miserable inside because it's too dark in our house. I have a little greenhouse but it's full of tomato and chilli plants. Snails have eaten all of the beautiful sturdy little sweetcorn plants I put out this week. Ditto my cosmos and poached-egg seedlings. Delphiniums being munched, calendulas, lupins. Turns out nemaslug doesn't kill snails, and we have thousands of them, they are everywhere. Just been out to do a bit of weeding because the sun came out...now it's hammering it down again. And to add insult to injury I have mosquito bites! Anyone else want a gratuitous moan about the bloody weather?

Agreed - I don’t grow veg but the grass is ruined and still a bog (god knows how long the grass that is left will be by the time it’s dry enough to get a lawn mower on it), several shrubs/bulbs have not lasted the winter due to low temps or water logging and I tried wedding yesterday - it was so much hard work digging and pulling docks out of wet clay that I gave up after an hour. Just fucking grim.

Yip

Our food bills will rise if we can't grow anything - and no one else can either

On the plus side, our frogs will presumably be thriving

Edited to say: I appreciate that's not much of a plus side to many

You've put sweetcorn seedlings out already? I'm only a veg growing newbie, but though they went out much later in the year?
My tomato seedings are getting leggy inside too. I had a garden room with massive windows and a skylight which helps, but they are still leggy. The wind has been ridiculous here and many of my tulips which have just some out- have been blown apart 😩

I have some daffs in a vase - at least that's pretty

Because they'd been broken by the wind

My white cherry tree had blossom for only a few days before the wind and rain got it. I’d get at least a month out of it every other year.

Put the recycling out today. Had a few boxes to break up and collapse I did this in the garden next to the bin. Ok fairly normal. The grass after I’d finished was just mud my dgs crocs were filthy I was only there five mins tops. Everything is still so wet.

I have free draining soil and live at the top of a hill. Got my grass mown today but so many of my plants have died - even the nepeta, and it has to go some to kill catmint!

Yeah, it was a bit early, but they were quite mature, at least six inches and really sturdy, and it was a prepared bed in a lovely sheltered spot, so I thought they would be ok. They have been munched down to soil level by the snails

I think I'm extra grumpy myself because of the lack of sunlight, but it really is so dispiriting.

My catmint is also decimated. Grr.

Yes, me too. You’re much further on than me as it’s been far too cold to start any seeds yet up here high in the northern hills. I think it’s rained every day since last summer & the garden is flooded in parts as it doesn’t drain well especially with the run off from the peaty hills. The daffodils are only just coming into bud & the snowdrops are struggling in the wet, no leaves on any of the trees or hedges yet.

Our grass is growing fast, but we can't cut it because the ground is like a bog. I need to dig some weeds out of the front lawn, but it's too cold, wet and miserable and I just can't face it.

My grass is totally and utterly ruined I think, between the constant rain and the dog and kids still walking over it (running around in circles on it in the case of the bloody dog). I don’t know how it is going to look when it finally dries up but I doubt it will be pretty.

My daffodils are blooming though.

I have a dining room table full to bursting with Japanese maples in pots at the moment, to protect their new leaves from this desiccating wind we've had for two days solid. Should be dying down in about an hour according to the weather forecast for where we are, so they can all go back out in the garden again later. I've done nothing in the garden itself at all this weekend.

yeah, it's been like this the last few years at this time of year. I don't bother in the garden much now till May to be honest. DH mowed the grass last week and threw some weed and feed down as the moss is rampant, and I did some cutting back and did some light tidying of the borders. But thats it now for a few weeks.

I was even commenting to DH today that (apart from the blossom trees) a lot of the other trees are only just getting visible green grown on, many still look wintry - and we're nearly mid-April and not particularly a cold part of the country.

ANd you know what, in a few months time we'll be in the middle of a drought. My back garden faces south and it's so hot and dry in the summer if there's little rain for a few weeks. It's really difficult trying to gauge the type of plant that will thrive in both very wet winters and very dry hot sun.

Ours is like a swamp and with 2 dogs and a football loving grandson, our lawn just looks horrendous. DH hasn't been able to get near it with the lawn mower as it's just too wet so he's currently sharpening the blade on it. My tulips finally opened in their pots a few days ago and the wind has played havoc with them. All that effort choosing bulbs and planting them. Sigh.

We've got 4 huge laurel bushes to plant out the front and DH has put it off this weekend as the soil is clay based and will weigh a ton.

our garden is absolutely waterlogged. The soil is clay. It will take ages for it to drain. It’s been sunny here today but didn’t have the heart to tackle anything in the garden. Looking forward to less rain.

My young seedlings and small potted plants go out in the day, and l bring them in at night. I don't have a greenhouse, l have a shed, and l leave some seed trays in the porch, as it gets the sun and plenty of light.
If I'm around in the day and it's raining l bring them back in. At the moment it's a bit like the Oakey Cokey song, in, out, etc. It's not been too bad here, l have managed to do a few jobs in the garden. I find my young seedlings do much better if outdoors some part of the day, they don't get enough light indoors and it's been quite mild.

Oh god, me too op. The rain has turned my garden into a swamp. Never seen it so bad in over twenty years in this house. Gutted.

North west, our back garden has had standing pools of water for months, we laid rubber grass mats near the chicken run and feed shed, the water on the grass mat got so deep that a stream flowed through the chicken run ☹️ No prospect of cutting the grass here.

Our garden is also like a muddy swamp and I'm worried about my apple trees now because they're just starting to bud and these freezing winds will wreck them. This happened a couple of years ago and we didn't get any apples at all because once the blossom is damaged that's it for the season, whereas we usually get enough to stash in the freezer for crumbles all Winter long. I'll be so upset if it happens again, we had a lovely crop last year.

Nemaslug works well for slugs but the parasites can't get into snails. Snails are the work of the devil, they won't touch the weeds but they love, love, love anything you grow especially your flowers, my beautiful daffodils have been chewed to buggery. Lots of mulch will help to keep them at bay Op and copper strips but what would help more would be less rain and a bit of sunshine.

Everything is growing brilliantly in my garden and I am in cold, rainy Scotland.

One corner of our garden is impossible to walk on and I can’t see it improving any time soon. The flowering cherry has lost its blossom and the magnolia is shedding its blooms rapidly too. The box hedge needs attention because the pesky moths are in there again and it was just improving.