What have you done in the garden today? Part 8

[Jimmyneutronsforehead]

A continuation thread.

Thank you to MereDintOfPandiculation for threads 1 through 6. We wouldn't have built this lovely gardening community without you.

No gardening job is too small or too big to tell us about.

Spring is springing into action, let's get mucky.

That's so cute.

When I was little and couldn't yet read, and had some obviously misunderstood auditory processing issues, I used to say letters and words look like squiggles, and if I didn't hear or process what someone had just said I would tell them they're talking in squiggles.

Blowing a hoolie here too! I must have picked it up when I lived in Scotland for a while.
(ETA the phrase, not the actual weather!)

I have seeds to sow and cuttings to take but it’s just vile out there. Wouldn’t be too bad in the shed but I don’t even fancy the 10 yard walk to get there!

Forecast saying sunny and dry, 10C on Saturday here; not exactly tropical but I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Bin day here and stuff all over the place. Bah.

I’m on the Isle of Man, and it’s blowing a hoolie here too, it’s a commonly used phrase here. I haven’t done anything in the garden today - in fact I’ve avoided even looking out of the window at it, because the weather is so foul. Not cool, winter. You’ve had your turn!

My friend says blowing a hoolie and we live south coast on the Solent.

I expect she was saying it all day yesterday, it really was extremely windy. I don't use the term and I don't know anyone else who does either, just her.

It's still a bit windy here today but not quite so windy as yesterday.

I was stood in the playground waiting to pick DS up yesterday and I got blown off my feet and I am a short and heavy lady. As soon as they let the children out of the classroom I stuck his water bottle in his back pack for a bit of extra weight because I was worried he'd get blown about.

Sitting in the car waiting for the playground to open was horrible too, it felt like I was on a boat at high seas, though I am rather grateful I wasn't.

Today I think I'll be picking up everyone else's rubbish that has flown into our garden and filling our own bins back up with it, grr.

Blowing a hoolie is right. My greenhouse exploded last night!

🤯🤯🤯🤯 I think I'd have stronger words for the wind if it did that to my greenhouse!

It must have been pressure. Seed packets as I left them on the bench. Nothing blown over. But a third of the glass blown outwards. How??!! Husband livid. He spent the Christmas season putting it together for me.

Still non stop rain here so no gardening.

I know that if there are any imperfections in glass, even ones we can't see at a first glance, changing air pressure can just make it shatter, but it's odd if it's multiple panes and it has also blown outwards and not inwards. Were any windows open in it making a wind tunnel inside?

No! Nothing open at all!

Ordered a raised wooden bed for my cottage garden which is going at the top of the plot and will be here Wednesday.

Collected 4 huge wooden pallets from the suppliers that we know and husband walked them one by one round to the allotment.

Went to B and M and spent £10 on 12 foxgloves for said cottage garden.

it was really really cold today. Should be sunny tomorrow.
A friend has said it is too cold for us to have put our early potatoes in so I’m panicking slightly!

Survival of the fittest! I think if you've mulched them and they're an early variety they'll be absolutely fine. I've seen loads of people planting their earlies now.

@Liquoricethyme those b&m six plant packs are such good value aren’t they. I put my poppies from there in today.

Wish you lived near me!

Too damn cold to do anything which is annoying as itching to crack on.

@Jimmyneutronsforehead i put my b&m poppies in today. Such good value for £5.

Ive planted some poppy seeds in as well. Its been sunny here today.

@Tiddlywinks63 hopefully you can get a lot of joy from watching things grow and enjoy someone else doing the hard bits.

Love this thread. @Liquoricethyme i spent a good ten minutes mentally tussling over whether I was going to buy yet more plants from B and M, but managed to talk myself down. I did however get some seeds on the 3 for 2 deal.

Today the sun has actually been out! So I’ve emptied some pots, moved some pots, examined my seedlings and seed trays approx 57 times, and started to take up some gravel from an iris bed (put in by previous owners). Am hoping to be able to lift and move the irises after flowering. There’s bloody loads of gravel though, so feel this job might take me through many months and many cups of tea.

Oh. I also spent 20 minutes trying to rescue a bumble bee from my greenhouse. It steadfastly refused to fly out of the enormous open door or the roof vents and instead boinked repeatedly past them until I felt it was actually doing it on purpose. I have also therefore just bought one of the ribbon blind things on Amazon. Ha!

We’ve put an outside cloche thing one of these - over the potatoes, I’ve been worrying about them all night. We had got one before Christmas but DH put it up over the potatoes today. Have to say it is huge and looks pretty sturdy and you can pin it down etc. so potatoes all covered. Recommended.

We were so impressed we got another one today. Got some seaweed feed from our local garden centre and a flower pot woman for our allotment. I’m not feeling too clever today and it’s been tough to get up and about so I think that is enough for the day really now. I got a book called Dopamine Gardening today - will report back! I’m off with a cup of tea and my aches and pains to the bath with my new book.

I did a couple of hours in the front garden weeding and spreading more of last years compost around.

I put in my B&M poppies, some Iris and some Gladioli ( think they were both from Poundstretcher) that were supposed to be put 10cm deep and I know I failed I failed at that! I also had some Aliums from Tesco that I put in. There were four bulbs growing in the pot. I split them up and dotted them around. I hope that was ok to do?

I also bought a Ranunculus from Tesco. The aliums and Ranunculus were in an offer for 2 for £5. I haven’t put that in yet. I was surprised it was already flowering. Any advice? Ive not had that plant before.

@MargaretThursday where did you buy your daffodils from? I love orange centred ones and thought I’d left it too late to plant some.

Finally got an hour in the garden and cut back lots of things. I can see much weeding needing to be done. It got too cold then. I need some ideas for a 6ft square patch half of which is in shade most of the time. I’ve tried various things over the years, veg, wildflowers, fruit but none have been a huge success. I want to do something more permanent now. There’s a huge rhubarb in one corner. There’s a low brick wall around it which is broken in places (it used to be a greenhouse base) so I need to find a way of removing or fixing that.

I love poundstretcher for cheap bulbs. I got some onion sets from there a few years back and my Nan had been talking about these onions ever since. Nothing has lived up to her oniony standards.