Hah, I actually got the bulbs in.

Well, except for the small packet of snakeshead fritillaries that I intend to guerilla plant along a local footpath. Don't worry, they are a UK native.

Now I'm going to have a bottle of cider, some good quality stuff too so no chugging it. Note for Americans, this means hard cider and not apple juice.

Glad #MontyDon has had a glut of squash and courgettes, but the freezing cold temperatures and constant cloud cover in my part of Scotland has meant that mine are only just now starting to set fruit. Been ridiculous this year.

I'm gonna say something controversial as a #gardener. I can't stand #Daffodil Jetfire or Tete-a-Tete. Get a new thing, garden centres and bulb merchants. I love spring dafs, but get something other than those two please. They are so damn basic.

Does anyone else plant a load of spring bulbs and then spend five minutes staring at the ground willing them to just flipping grow? No? #JustMe then?

Do you know what I'm gonna do today? Fuck all.

And I'm gonna have fun doing it.

Tomorrow I shall be sober and go the garden centre to see if the spring bulbs are in yet though.

Also, are #loquats hardy in #Scotland? I pulled a couple of seeds from one and they've germinated. And can you grow them in a pot? Are there more plants I need to find a home for now?
#ScottishWeather
#Gardening
#GardenersWorld
#BeechgroveGarden
#ShoutyHalfHour

Take a guess on this riddle.

If you have half a dozen of one type of plant, and only one of another, and they are all the same price and same height..., which, no matter how you secure them, will fall over in the car, breaking their main stem on the way home from the garden centre? Go on, guess.

I hate #GardeningMastodon Ooh, look a new garden catalogue!!!

#GardeningMastodon
#GardenersWorld
#ShoutyHalfHour

Score another one for my late grandfather's #Gardening advice. He always said that when planting pumpkins you should pop the seeds in your mouth for a couple of seconds to help them break dormancy before planting them. After my first tranche of seeds got 100% failure without doing that, I planted some more and gave them a quick sook before bunging them in. I now have full germination this time. Nice one, Grandpa.

Everyone: Sook your pumpkin seeds.
#GardeningClub #GardenersWorld #ShoutyHalfHour

The two tomato varieties I have chose are an heirloom called #Tomato #BigRainbow and a "new" variety called #PurplePeruvian which is supposedly some sort of new to cultivation, in the UK at least, "wild" tomato species.

So far I am impressed with neither, although the Peruvian ones are farther along than the Big Rainbows.

Another round of potting on and planting new seeds.

I now have even more plants I will have to find somewhere to safely pass on to.

I am running out of window space.

Also, my tomato seedlings seem to be taking frustratingly long to flump up. Everything else is romping away, by they are still sulking.

My main #Gardening problem is I hate pricking out and discarding unneeded plants. I just have to try and save them all. Every sprouted seed, no matter how puny or behind its fellows, I must try to save. I am too damn soft.

It also means I have to try and rehome unneeded (I refuse to say unwanted) seedlings too. It is such a hassle.

I am such a pushover.

Been planting on peppers and tomatoes. Some into their final inside pots, some into their interim pots. Ideally I'd do all into interim pots, but I just don't have the space to not mix and match.

Also starting off some #Sunflower seeds indoors too. For one of my prized outside spaces later in the year. I'm trying those giant sunflower seeds. I need them grown on, because the slugs and snails are 2voracious for planting outside.

Loving a Friday night routine that includes #GardenersWorld

Ahhhhhhh....
Starting with #WinterTrees

Stuff I’m looking for to find my people #british #wildlife #nature #gardenersofmastodon #wilding #outdoors #shoutyhalfhour

Where my #shoutyhalfhour toots at? #gardenersWorld #gardenersofmastodon #gardeners #wildlife

Started watching back eps of #GardenersWorld on britbox, and got to the Dahlia grower, #shoutyhalfhour in full effect. IF MOST PEOPLE DONT HAVE THE "DAHLIA EYE" THEN WHY DOES IT MATTER! Also his rooted cutting demo just showed that the difference is negligible!