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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 4,092 Championing

    Bitter cold here

    Been 9 degrees all week

    I will put them out soon

    Only spring flowers open

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1120832#Comment_1120832

    Best not tell you what it is in our garden then double yours and some

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,234 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1120774#Comment_1120774

    Was very cold this evening on my dog walk, a thick haar 'Sea fog' brought early darkness. I might have thought it was still February, but for the mating calls of the pheasant roosters. They strut about like they own the place, but soon realise my dog does!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing

    Has been just into the 20's here today … flipping chilly tonight though.

    Potentially still a risk of frost here for another 3 weeks. Taken a gamble and put a few Felicia, Brachycombe and Nonstop begonias into pots and planted a bamboo (non invasive). The more tender plants I'll let harden off in their pots a bit more

    Also planted up a box plant and a dwarf cypress

    @SoapySoutar the pheasants around here think they're kamikazee pilots, or they just love to see me ducking behind the steering wheel 🙇‍♂️

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing

    hot enough down here to have to water a few plants sunburn weather

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,231 Championing

    I did that yesterday @michael57 as lack of rain, not that I'm complaining

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1121364#Comment_1121364

    Gonna be a long hot summer this year

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,419 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1121401#Comment_1121401

    Dreading it. Already finding it draining not being able to regulate my body temperature.

    Either my body is dripping with 'fat juice' or shivering uncontrollaby when it drops a couple of degrees. But like rain … it'll be good for the garden. Anything over 24 and I'll be hibernating

    Really don't know how I worked on mountains lugging a saw around for 9/10 hours, all the safety gear, heat from the sun, heat from the ground …

    … actually maybe I do. I was mad, fit and young

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,234 Trailblazing
    edited April 29

    There was a touch of ground frost here after 21:00. I find that by the time we lose last wiinter's chill, we are heading back to autumn again! I have been wrapped up at night since last September. 🐕️👨‍🦼

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing

    A good year for the ground cover phlox

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,999 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1121401#Comment_1121401

    Are we conserving water yet? Of course we aren't! 🙄

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing

    Haha if they need it they have it the wind dries out plants worse than the sun

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,999 Championing

    I didn't know that.

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1122029#Comment_1122029

    we have two identical plants in pots one was in the wind today and one was not and you would think it was two different plants

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,234 Trailblazing

    I want to know what the farmer is waiting for, his FYM is steaming away, and getting smelly!

    Does a period of time heaped in the fresh air aid the microbial breakdown? Is he waiting for something else, or a date on the calendar?

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing

    i dare say it will be spread just before the field is ploughed for maize the ground needs to be a certain temperature for good germination and as you say its a tad colder up your way

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,234 Trailblazing

    Thanks, Michael, I suppose you are right. This is seed potato country, could he also be growing them? Tattie boxes pile very high around here.

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing

    yes could well be about the right time

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,234 Trailblazing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1122072#Comment_1122072

    I heard Scotland is the seed potato capital of the world. Is that likely?

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,174 Championing

    You are correct Chris because of the cooler damp weather and good soil it is ideal for potatoe growers

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