Daily Archives: April 14, 2024

Weather-wise, not a bad weekend

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The weather forecast was correct for the weekend, it was nice on Saturday and today wasn’t as hot but still not too bad. Our flymo has been on the blink of late, so until we when we get around to giving it a look and/or until we get a new one we’re going for a Suedehead look lawn-wise for the time being.

We’re still not taking any risks putting those tender plants out, the spuds are coming up and we’ve got sweet peas in the cold frame but weather-wise you never know what’s around the corner and give it a couple of weeks we should be out of the possible frost zone, fingers crossed.

Our friends in Kyiv

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A big thanks as always to our good friend Wlad (US7IGN) in Kyiv for sending us some more excellent pictures. The first is his Dill seedlings (above) that look like they’re doing very well.

Wlad also wrote of the other plants he started off as well “The garlic also remained small for a long time, but then simply dried out” and his potato plant is growing but seems to have stood still for a while (pics above).

It’s funny as we’re having problems on some of the seedlings on our windowsill too, we’ve got some chilli and tomato seedlings and they are not doing much else after growing their seed leaves and one set of a normal leaf. There looks like there’s some sort of greenfly about but they don’t seem to be bothering any of the other sunflower seedlings or sweet peas. Any ideas?

As for his Wlad’s good mate Sergiy (UT3UFD) his banana is doing very well! It looks well healthy and so does his date palm (above). Great stuff!

We always think of Sergiy’s plant when we pass the banana plant that is in a front garden in SE23. We have no idea if bananas are supposed to survive the british weather but this one seems to! Cheers again to Wlad and Sergiy for the pics and we look forward to seeing more.