What are you planning on planting this Bank Holiday Weekend??

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Tell me about your plans. And how you're going to keep your seedlings and plants protected from the typical BH weather forecast?

I've sown Sweet Peas but indoors. They wont be going out for a while. I also have White Borage and Nasturtiums for when the weather is better

OP I know! I never expect them all to germinate but when they do I can't bare to throw them away! it's a bit of a problem when there's 1000 seeds on a packet. I always plant the whole pack. Maybe that's where I go wrong lol

@MilduraS

Monday isn't an official bank holiday in Scotland but you might be living in one of the areas where your local authority has decided Easter Monday should be a bank holiday.

Ah! I’ve lived here for four years and did not know that.

I've potted on my sunflower seedlings, have tomatoes and rudbeckia seedlings just appearing, all on the kitchen windowsills.

I've bought one of those little plastic greenhouses so am going to build that and fix it to the garden wall for my seeds to go into in a few weeks.

In relying on lidl plants and some wildflower seeds. Plated nice bulbs last year that are coming through. Tulips and daffodils and other little flowers.
I have night scented stock growing well from seed. Tomatoes are inside for now as are courgette seeds. New to all this so 🤞

I daren’t plant any of my seedlings out (which was going to be my project) as it’s due to get so cold again next week. Aaargh.

@tarapinn the first seeds I planted (as an adult with a garden) were tomato seeds. I planted the entire packet and then went over to my grandmother's house for Sunday lunch so she could show me how to pot them on. I asked her why on earth they'd sell you a packet of 50 seeds if you only needed 5 plants but they would all germinate. It honestly seemed crazy to me at the time. 20 years on, it still doesn't make much sense. Still, I'll have a lot if cosmos and amni if I can keep them all alive.....

I've just recently decided to take up gardening. in Scotland so lots of different seedlings on the go indoors. this weekend I'm going to create a border in my front garden and transfer lavenders from pots to ground and plant a few other things I've bought recently. hellebores and hebe (lovely pink/purple magicolour ones) 😁

I turned over a patch of garden yesterday ready for some seed bombs which I'm planning to throw in (think it's a bit early yet?)
Tackling the front garden patch today.

I'm potting on some cosmos in the greenhouse and have some ferns to go into a new shady bed. I bought some fleece yesterday to cover some new beds I've already planted up. All the plants are hardy, but hoping to avoid damage to young leaves!

We're in south west Wales (originally from Hampshire 😉) and our nurseries and garden centres only recently reopened, so we had a little trip to one on Saturday to stock up as we're creating a cottage garden from scratch on half an acre.

DH is building new oak steps and bordering a banked planting area with oak sleepers whilst I'm getting some of the hardier plants in elsewhere.

So far I've planted - 4 x bare root David Austin roses, 6 x Sarah Bernhardt peonies, 2 x dwarf(ish) conifers, 3 x Euphorbia Martinii, 2 x rheum palmatum rubrum and primula francesca (the latter in a pot). Still to go are - 9 x hosta, 9 x digitalis Pam's Choice, 3 more euphorbia, 2 x libertia, 4 x yew, a giant Ribes, a medlar and quince 🙄

I've also got a couple of standard bay trees going from pots to the ground and 120 x peacock orchids to plant....plus loads of seeds....phew!

This is our fourth spring here and although we began planting almost immediately - the garden we inherited when we bought the house was just huge trees, laurels, rampant weeds (ground elder, I'm looking at you!) and plenty of spring bulbs - we have barely scratched the surface.....

But this time of year is lovely as plants I'd thought hadn't survived are beginning to make an appearance 😆

Today I Repotted the small tomato plants I bought a few weeks ago - kept inside in a warm windowsill. They have grown well. I bought a self watering container and they should do well now.
Dh planted lots of rockery seeds into trays.
I did a patch of rocky old grown with shake and rake wildflowers with the dc. Things are starting to look nice.

@Hebeee very interested to hear how you get on and what you’ve chosen as we have just bought a half acre garden that is currently just a lawn with some currently undetermined trees & scattered rubbish. We are hoping over the years to turn it into a cottage garden - we just don’t know where to start - so looking at this forum for some inspiration! We are lucky to have a very sad looking greenhouse though.