What are you planting this weekend?

[didireallysaythat]

I'm been quite reserved but I just want start planting seeds now!

What seeds are you looking forward to setting off the most?

I'm going to need a bigger greenhouse.

Thanks @Proudboomer! Maybe I'll wait until it gets warmer and sow poppies directly into the ground then. I have heavy clay but they seem happy!

Can't wait till I can start growing veg. Always do well for beans and peas, carrots and potatoes not so much.

Dicentra spectabilis alba is going in one of the front borders and I have a white hardy geranium with bronze leaves that is going in the semi-shaded bit of one of the borders at the back.

I love dicentras and don't know why I don't see more of them in gardens. They're such a pretty shape, and the flowers are lovely - so delicate.

I've planted my cascading begonias (bulbs) into my fence hanging baskets . Few weeks early maybe but my garden gets lots of sunshine .

I bought a couple of cheap Dalhias from Wilko yesterday and have spent a happy couple of hours clearing a couple of pots from them, adding fresh compost to them and planting them.
I have also sown marigolds, nasturtiums and sweet William but they will stay in the green house for a few more weeks.

We've sown tomatoes, sunflowers, squash, pumpkins, courgettes, bergamot, hyssop, asparagus pea, & echinacea in the propogaters.
Potted on artichokes & the new fig. Weeded out the strawberries & various other pots. Pruned the mint. DH has been adding rotten manure to various beds too.

I ran out of room in the greenhouse but I'm planning on retreating to the sofa with a glass bottle of wine, my collection of seed packets and watching gardeners world. I'm not ready for the weekend to be over yet.

Sunflowers, parsley, plum tomatoes, rudbeckia, snap dragons, delphiniums and aquilegia. Cannot seem to grow poppies or sweet peas and my beautiful nasturtiums were destroyed by black fly last year, so I haven't bothered this time.

So far just sweetcorn, peas and beetroot. Have a tin full I have to tackle this week with DS (who just wants to eat the compost - he's 1). DP tillered my veg plot last weekend so shall be planting some carrots directly this week too, along with some perpetual spinach. Have some gladioli, Dutch iris and anemones planted up along with chrysanthemums also.

Today I've planted a rhubarb.... inspired by gardeners world. I've got loads of seeds packets to go through in the shed, I think I need some sort of box to store them in.

I got my hand blown up by a bee sting but managed to get 2 big escallonia, and a gorgeous pink anemone in on Saturday, the ceanothus tree on Sunday, pot up cosmos and erigeron seedlings and sow dahlias and more cosmos.

I took dad to the GC after visiting mum, so I also bought 2 teeny rock roses and a fancy armeria, plus another 8 plugs (osteo and bacopa) so plenty more to do.

I put 3 mini propagators to use , the beetroot and tomatoes are doing really well but the peas are not , I had a look and they seem to be same colour but just a mushy mess .
Gutted !

@Gotthetshirt23 are your propagators heated? I potted on tomatoes that I set off on a window sill a couple of weeks ago, but I only planted beetroot seed last week and they've been in the greenhouse so no sign of action.

My DH mocks me as I always plant lots of seeds and then get despondent when nothing comes up within a week, and then a month later I've got too much of everything. Except sweet peas. I just can't get sweet peas to germinate...

I'll do peas in a couple of weeks time - I find they get a bit leggy and stall when I plant them out normally so I'm going to hold back.

I do hope this summer's weather is as good as last year. I fear I may be disappointed....

I have been planting mad chilli varieties - put a heat mat on underneath them. Can't wait to see them pop up - hope they do.

We moved into a new house at the start of the year - my first garden! So yesterday I was preparing an area for a raised bed. Going to plant various vegetables. And today we're getting some pallets delivered so DP can build us a compost heap!!

Oh and I planted an azeala bush - purple one!!

Has anyone here managed to grow rhubarb from seed?

@SidSparrow during the first lockdown last year I planted a packets worth of rhubarb seeds. I now have 20 small rhubarb plants (1 litre pots) for my stepmum. It will be done years before they are the size of something I'd want to harvest though... And I'd need an enormous garden for 20! If you want to get doing with it now, I'd post of your local Facebook if you've got allotments in you area- every plot arbours has a big rhubarb you just leave in the corner.

@didireallysaythat

Ohh! I might try some seeds. I seen that fulton's strawberry one on Gardener's world. Sold out everywhere, though I can get one end of April - about £20, but I stopped myself buying it as I have spent a small fortune so far on all this gardening stuff so now trying to recycle and do what I can on the cheap!

I will try facebook though! That's a great suggestion! Thank you!

@LakieLady

Dicentra spectabilis alba is going in one of the front borders and I have a white hardy geranium with bronze leaves that is going in the semi-shaded bit of one of the borders at the back.

I love dicentras and don't know why I don't see more of them in gardens. They're such a pretty shape, and the flowers are lovely - so delicate.

I had one of these for years, I love it, but it got swamped by big overgrown bushes so I assumed it had given up, I haven’t seen it for about 10 years. Last year we removed the bushes and redesigned the garden and yesterday I spotted it, about 6 inches tall looking very healthy with loads of buds on it.

About a month ago I put a bulb in the front garden, no sign of it at all @LakieLady

I am going to sow some wild flower seeds in a shallow cardboard box with some compost the idea being that they will suppress the grass underneath while they establish and the cardboard will decompose

I've bought several packets of seeds to start off in doors. Just ordered my mum a rose for her birthday.

@didireallysaythat not heated I'm afraid, clearly the tomato and beetroot don't care !
Will try again .
I didn't even know that heated propagators existed !
Off to google ......

@Gotthetshirt23 - you'll find a wealth of things you never knew you wanted, and sadly in my world at least, you can't afford and haven't got the space for.

I've currently got half sized seed trays on the floor downstairs by the windows - making use of the under floor heating....

The front garden is liberally covered in gravel, people do that a lot in Somerset because the damp brings so many weeds with it and it's a constant battle to keep weeds out of the grass.
A month ago I liberally sprinkled wild flower seeds and nigella all over it. In 2 months time it will be a riot of lovely colour and they never mind the gravel at all.
Great for birds and bees too.

Sorry to hear about you getting stung @MrsBertBibby, is it ok now?

I planted a fern into my shade garden and some strawberries into the front garden border as well as spreading a load of manure everywhere. I normally get it from the local stables muck heap but I'm not sure of lockdown etiquette over this so bought it from B&Q. Christ it stinks. DH is worried the neighbour will complain.

Also planted some mazus reptans plugs into some old tomato trays so they can spread/grow a bit before I plant them out in May.

I sowed
Cherry tomatoes
Peppers
Pumpkins
Cucumbers

Calendula
Sunflowers
Nasturtiums
More sweet peas
Morning glories

Need to clear the bed for the peas but that might happen after easter.

I've not chitted any potatoes this year as I simply forgot. It's not to late is it? Not particularly fussed on varieties.

Today I planted some courgette seeds into mini pots and will keep on a windowsill for now. I also Repotted a hydrangea (bluebird) that I bought at the weekend. I hope it will be lovely. My favourite shrubs are cornflower blue such as the ceananthos.