Gardening: Hints and Help!

A good few years ago I entered a friendly online competition to grow the largest onion. I won it with this (5lb 5ozs)

Planted out the peas and broad beans and transplanted the courgettes and squash , carrots and onion seed just poking through the soil ,and should be starting the cucumber seeds over the weekend , but I’ve been a bit distracted as I had a delivery of a new wood turning lathe yesterday!

Just hopping for some rain to fill up all the water butts   

Well please don't boast about rain 😱😱 a few spots heard because I was in the conservatory at the time. Not enough to damp a tissue AGAIN 😢😢

 We've not had any rain now since we came home from our Winter trip over 4 weeks ago, and looking at the forecast there's none on the horizon for us for another weekend so. The ground could really do with a good soaking, although the flowers in it are standing up well to the drought at the moment. The flowers on our oldest clematis have just start to open and the second one's should do the same over the weekend. Sorry but can't provide names of them.

Small flowers? Pink or white? Might be a Montana, earliest out of spring flowering. I dropped on this afternoon, our Aldi had some Clematis outside. Lo and behold, one of my favourites........result!😁

Thanks, Tda. Small pink flowers, so possibly a Montana. The other has larger white ones. I'll try for a photo tomorrow. We also got another from Aldi this year which is supposed to have deep red flowers, but doubt that we'll see them this year as the plant is only quite small.

For growing ‘beans’, I can thoroughly recommend these root trainers. Compact and relatively durable too.

Well they look nice and strong Freddy, we tend to use whatever is to hand. We had to use some very old bean seeds this year but they have grown ok. My plant seedling deliveries are due any minute, they are late, I suppose the orders have overwhelmed some places. OH has put some of the small chantenay carrot seedlings in a pot for me, haven't grown them before, we don't usually grow carrots but thought we'd try some. 🥕🥕

Just a word of caution, carrots are said to not like transplanting. I can’t say as I’ve never tried it. The first time I grew carrots was quite a revelation, so sweet and nothing like regular shop bought, as long as you pick ‘em while still in growth.

I told him that Freddy! But he took no notice, as he is labouring away out there I'd better keep quiet....