I can’t help you on that one @Maree , I’ve only ever seen it in the wild. Hopefully someone will know though… 
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Hoping to upload photos.
The seeds I sowed a few weeks ago seem to have germinated, and the fruit canes in the bucket of water are sprouting leaves. Need to work out where they will go. Raspberry, gooseberry and blackberry.
Just now I have sown a lot more, but realise I haven’t bought a packet of leeks.
Also need a firm tray ready for when taking to the allotment later. The diddly plastic ones ripped, and I lost a lot of parsnips onto the ground. Hoping to have rescued enough (but also did a few more rows).
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Nothing like the first few shoots from the season’s seeds to herald the arrival of spring…
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Smashing couple of hours in the warm sunshine this afternoon, planted a row of lettuce, a row of kohl rabi and two more rows of beetroot. I did half an hour pulling a few weeds then tidied the strawberry plants, which I grow in hanging baskets, clearing last year’s dead foliage away. I always let them winter outside but then they spend the summer in the greenhouse until they’ve finished fruiting. The plants are two years old now so this should be their best year, and I have some runners from last year potted up to replace them with at the end of the season.
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Hi Maree , wild garlic seems to likes shady conditions.it grows in woods around here. Beware if it gets established it can be invasive ,
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oooo lovely Barry, my rhubarb died …
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Thankyou, I’ve got a spot in mind up the top of the garden where I’m going to have a wildlife pond, so it won’t hurt if it spreads!
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Sorry to hear that Meg, do you know why? 
…I think it got too wet Barry, it rotted away. I am short of space in my tiny garden and think I planted it in an unsuitable spot.
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That’s a shame @Meg , although rhubarb is a heavy feeder and likes to be in rich soil, it still needs decent drainage. Have you considered growing it in a large pot perhaps, or in a slightly raised bed? Having said that though, if you are struggling for space perhaps it’s just something you’ll have to forego, for with all the space I have there are still things which I would like to grow but don’t or can’t, they just aren’t worth the grief…
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@Barry
Barry I was thinking of a large tub or a corner of a raised bed,rhubarb it is something I really love and well worth squeezing in
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Just popped over to my allotment. Transplanted the fruit canes and a rhubarb crown.
Earlier, I transplanted strawberries, and a couple each pea and broad bean, to keep at home in the original greenhouse. The rest can go over the allotment when bigger.
Did some measuring while at the plot (using my shoe which I then measured with a tape at home) and updated my planner.
Good to hear you’ve managed to make a start on the allotment @Jazzi , for myself apart from nurturing the seedlings in the greenhouse and planting a couple of rows of beetroot, I have done very little in the veg plot over the last two weeks… it’s been either too cold, too wet or too windy, seems you cannot please some people… 
Anyhow, with a bit of luck we should have seen the back of the early frosts for awhile and things can start to grow away. Had a trip to the garden centre today with Rosemary to get some bedding plants for her hanging baskets, and whilst there I picked up some “cut and come again” lettuce plants and a few spring cabbage plants which looked much better than those I have raised from seed, so tomorrow I may get them planted out after our visitors have gone…
@Barry yes it is the weather that has largely affected how much time I have spent there. Could and should have done some this past week on ‘my holiday’ but I was doing other things.
When it is warmer I hope to do lots more.
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Yesterday I managed to plant out the spring cabbage plants and “cut and come again” lettuce plants that I picked up at the garden centre. I also managed to plant a row of spinach seed and make a new planter for Rosemary’s windmill palm after the old one rotted…
Today I have some strawberry runners to plant out that I have overwintered. They won’t make that much fruit this year but should be well settled in for next…
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I’m about 1000km further south than London - so I’m hard at it in the veg plot. Early planting and crops normally reserved for the greenhouse.
Potatoes went in about 3 weeks ago and are starting to appear. 100 seed potatoes, same as previous years. Should get a 60-70kg crop.
Peas, lots of peas, went in over the last 2-6 weeks and the early ones are looking good.
Then a week ago the beetroot seeds were sown, about 200 seeds. Hopefully most will come through.
Bought 15 tomato plants today - about 30cm tall from the local garden centre. Mostly just round tomatoes as I mainly make passata and freeze it. But also 3 cherry tomatoes.
Plus 2 courgette plants. All to plant out - depends on the forecast and the risk of frost.
Today was 25 deg and very sunny. The daytime temp dips a bit over the weekend but the forecast seems to be 25/26 deg again next week. And the overnight temperatures seem to be in the 10-12 deg. So no frost … yet. But last year there was a bad frost in early May - disaster for my tomatoes and the local wine growers. On vera !
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Barry it all sounds fabulous. You should set up a you tube channel of your gardening tips and progress.
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Good to hear that you’re hard at it already Alan @strathmore , I am too but I’m usually too eager and the late frosts catch me out with some things, but it all works out eventually with re-planting and buying new plants when I have to. Personally I don’t bother with potatoes as I don’t have the space and apart from fruit, which I freeze, onions which I hang to dry, and tomatoes which I make into soup, I don’t bother too much and just enjoy the produce when it’s ready, and get much pleasure giving away the surplus to family and neighbours.
Good luck with your garden this year though, and keep us informed of your progress in your part of the world. 
Thanks for the compliment but trust me @AnnieS it’s not all fabulous and I make many mistakes in the garden, but to me that is all part of the fun and the joy. I have never been a perfectionist in anything in life, but just carry on doing my best and that is reward and pleasure enough for me!
I actually started this thread for anyone to post in so that we could all tell of our successes and, more importantly, our failures so we may all learn a little something. I certainly have no tips for anyone other than do it your own way and enjoy what you do, so that would make a very dull, and very short, YouTube video… 
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