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Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: escapedtothecountry on April 10, 2013, 07:55:53 pm

Title: Mild weather
Post by: escapedtothecountry on April 10, 2013, 07:55:53 pm
Shhhh I hear it may be true...... Don't tell anyone. Mild weather may be on the way. Dare I put my dahlia tubers in the raised beds?
Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: Dan on April 10, 2013, 09:15:10 pm
It's definitely on the way, it'll be here by July apparently...  :D

I'm a born optimist - I'd put them in and  :fc: but there's probably a more scientific method around measuring soil temperature and day length!
Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: bloomer on April 10, 2013, 09:18:11 pm
dont mock us dan you know summer is 2 weeks in june then winter starts





Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: escapedtothecountry on April 10, 2013, 09:37:09 pm
Scientific methods take all the fun out of gardening. Trial and error for me. This Saturday they are all going in.
Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: HesterF on April 11, 2013, 12:03:48 am
Does that mean I should be putting mine in too? I don't think I dare. Not least because I've not worked out where they're going. Yikes. I don't feel ready  :-\. It just all feels too sudden  ;).

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Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: happygolucky on April 11, 2013, 09:18:14 am
nearly every year for 6 years  the summer has come and gone in May.......So that's the pattern now, not sure how many of my fruit trees with produce fruit as the chickens stole my apples and no nuts so far, our Cherry come plumb tree had tons on one year but a handful on last and none on our per tree...I have not grown veg for years, we did think about it and will do if we get a suitable house.....anyway, hope we do get some heat, my legs have not been out for ages  :innocent:
Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: Bodger on April 11, 2013, 02:03:11 pm
If my feet are still cold, which they are, then its not warm enough to plant anything out yet. :sunshine:
Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: Bionic on April 11, 2013, 02:35:27 pm
dont mock us dan you know summer is 2 weeks in june then winter starts
A whole 2 weeks? You will be lucky
Title: Re: Mild weather
Post by: gardenjeannie on May 01, 2013, 10:42:33 pm
We got 2 wks in March last yr (nr Ayr), had a great tan!  One wk in August (I remember cos camped out with boys and friends in garden for son's B'day).  That was it! We must be due a half decent yr.  If this is global warming or the 'greenhouse effect', someone named it wrong!  I was in a t-shirt with no thermals in garden yesterday! :sunshine: :excited:  Suppose that's it for the rest of the yr now. :( :raining:  (Guess who just discovered Smileys?!) :roflanim: (what ROFL mean?)