[Pony Girl]

What's going on with the weather?!!

I was hoping to sow my parsnips, early carrots and early potatoes this week. Do you think it's still too cold?

[DD.]

Up here - you have to be joking! 

[mike0001]

we are under snow again....  who knows when the weather is going to break ..... maybe that's an idea for a competition 

[mumofstig]

I'd wait, at least, till after this weekend's cold snap.............tipped to be the coldest for fifty years

http://uk.weather.com/story/news/032113_uk_outlook_record_cold

[JayG]

I would guess that even where you are the outdoor soil is too wet and cold for sowing anything to be either physically possible or likely to succeed.

Here it's snowing like the clappers - sowing directly into snow is an experiment too far even for me! 

[pdblake]

....sowing directly into snow is an experiment too far even for me! 

Don't fancy extreme hydroponics then?

[azubah]

I tried to prick out some seedlings in the greenhouse a few days ago but could not get them apart as the compost was frozen solid. The seedlings were fine until the sun came out and the temperature went up to 30C. They could not pump any water up to their leaves and drooped.

[Pony Girl]

Point taken!  I feel slightly better now that we are up to the tropical heights of 2 degrees at the weekend!

Do you think this is going to have a detrimental effect on our growing this year? 

[mumofstig]

It's certainly a slow start but hopefully spring will arrive eventually, and everything will happen in a rush then