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

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sprigatito · 07/04/2024 16:37

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?

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Feministwoman · 07/04/2024 20:01

I'm on 100+ foot of clay here, some of my flower beds have been flooded for over a month and we can't walk across the (uncut since Oct!) grass without leaving footprints that fill with water.
No veg yet planted out, no spuds in, no onions, because the soil in the veg garden is still too cold and too wet.

And I'm in West Midlands!

Don't get me started on the gloom, either.

KohlaParasaurus · 07/04/2024 20:05

My fritillary meadow, which is an annoying swampy lawn for most of the year, is currently looking beautiful. Otherwise I'm well behind because the idea of going out in the rain and sorting out soggy borders just doesn't appeal.

Cheepcheepcheep · 07/04/2024 20:05

Oh our north west back is a swap. Plus side: we have bluebells at the front and they’re thriving

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