General Chat

Go on ladies, admit that you like a good sniff of that compost.mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....luvly

Julia..............I too am a compost founderler............lol

We got our seed potatoes before Christmas this year , I've never know them to be available so early...........they are sitting under our stairs .....waiting...........lol

I don't heat my greenhouse.............I keep having to stop myself from filling up seed trays and starting everything way to soon .

Yes I have noticed buds on my Sambuca as I look through my kitchen window. I havn't been down the back garden for weeks because of the weather.
But, the other day, when I drove passed our local garden centre, there was a board outside, saying they had seed potatoes and onion sets in stock.
For us, as allotmenters, that is a true sign that the new garden season is not far away. I will send OH for ours, as, I know they will have the plant-plugs in also, and I will be sorely tempted. However, I have to work with my head. If I buy them now, I will have to put heat on in the greenhouse, and risk the chance of frosts, and the plants going 'leggy'. On the otherhand, they are well looked after at the garden centre, and it is their heat they are using, and not mine.
In this instance I have to let my head rule my heart.
But I can't wait to get started. When it has been a slow winter in previous years, I have been known to go in the greenhouse towards the middle to end of Feb. and just run my hands through a bag of compost, just to get them acclimatised, but really to feel the compost, and see some muck under me nails
Off to do, I will not say cook. an M & S Chinese meal for OH and myself, a couple of hours of drivel on the box, and a 10..00 bed with a good book.
Happy Weekend to All - and looking Forward to Spring LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Edited to say, when I am out of January, I know I am on the road to Spring

I noticed quite a few snowdrops out in a garden near here on Thursday.
Another garden had 1 daffodil about to burst open. It had lost it's papery coating.
I love springtime.

Gwyn

Indeed Joy......the herelds of spring with their big yellow trumpets : )

I've noticed the buds on shrubs etc Lynda.......soon be bud burst.

i love daffs to me they are the true spring flower

Great isn't it Joy...............I love the Spring time : ))

my daffs started to peep their heads above the snow last week

Spring is round the corner......I spotted a big clump of Snowdrops in my garden......they aren't out yet , just half erupted............roll on the Spring : ))