Bedtime in the Greenhouse

 A cold snap but at least some sunshine. Up country .... hail and snow. We have needed our layers but we`ve kept warm clearing flowerbeds and barrowing chipped bark. The huge pile is levelled.

The entrance looking spruced up.

The first flowerbed nearly complete .... full of couch grass and nettles. It was the only bed I didn`t tackle in the autumn. It was hard work. I`m hoping the others won`t take so long.

I tidied the fernery. The poor gnomes are looking a bit moth eaten. Because the fernery is shady and damp, their clothes do not last long.

Its not a very good picture.

 

I made some gnome bunting for the little garden and it was blowing gaily in the breeze.

And the forsythia is magnificent.

 

I can now report back about the seed snails.

The sweetpeas and peas have been brilliant ... no transplanting needed. And space saving.

 

But the biggest success has to be the broad beans. No potting on needed.

Each plant has room for its roots to develop.
 

I would not use seed snails for cosmos again. Cosmos tend to bolt and need very careful handling especially if they are leggy.

As there is the possibility of frost tonight it takes quite a few minutes to put the greenhouses "to bed" using light fleece to protect my precious seedlings. Many trays are also covered with proper seed trays covers. I have to be careful not to decapitate the ones at the edges!!!