It’s been a funny old week for weather, we’ve had some lovely days of sunshine (still a bit nippy at times out of the sun though) and then frost in the mornings like today (above). Don’t let the sunshine fool you! It’s just only turned March and as AI has just informed us “Plant out after the chance of frost has passed” means to wait until the last possible frost date in your area has passed before planting your seedlings outdoors. More on having a vague idea when your last frost date is here. Do remember though nature doesn’t always play to the rules.
Don’t get lulled into a false sense of security just because we’ve had some lovely days. We’ve even had some washing out on a couple of them but that don’t mean those leggy tomato plants (if you started them off on New Year’s Day like we used to do) can go out.
We did manage to do some jobs like finally getting around to cutting up some prunings from next door’s tree which will be burning in the fire pit in a few month’s time (above). In the picture next to the gardening recycling bin are the loppers we bought in Lldl many years ago where the person on the till said twice “Do keep the recipt handy just in case you need to return them”.
Make use of this bout of sunshine but don’t put out those geraniums out just yet!
“We have had primroses/primulas for quite a while. They are the conventional yellow colour but there are also a few red/purple ones. Lovely to have some colour in the garden.” Debby’s right
The other week we were chatting with a gardener friend about those damn fungus gnats that in the summertme usually plague our plants on the kitchen windowsill. She recommended using some Neem Oil which we’ve never heard of before and brought some for us the other day. We have no idea if it will work, how it works and what you do with it apart from diluting it and putting it on your plants. Any ideas? Does it work and what’s the best way to use it? Do drop us a comment.
Weeds up to me knees 