My gardening weekend consisted of going to Wisley craft fair on Saturday, Allotments on Sunday & garden yesterday. Managed some things but too hot to really have a go at anything too physical. Had to resort to watering seedlings on Plots today, the ground is damp lower down but top 3 inches has dried out. Everything is going potty at the moment as someone on the telly said we seem to have gone from winter to high summer in one go.
Potted on a load of antirrhnum, they seem a bit lost in their new pots, but l am hoping that now the weather is improving, they will start to catch up. Everything seems so far behind this year! Have some Malvas as to do as well, but tomorrow is another day. Looking at the packet, l see they like moist, fertile, well drained soil in full sun. I'm not sure such a thing exists, but l wish l had it! 🤔
Doing lots of potting on. New plants and divisions I am taking with me when I move. Was hoping it was gonna be before now but nope! Hence the need for the potting 😊
Finished planting up my new herb bed, including digging up and moving two purple fennel plants from a planter. I thought they'd hide the legs of my strawberry table just behind. Stuck some kiddies windmills on to the corners of the strawberry planter to scare the pigeons off the strawberries - got lots of flowers on them - do I need to hand pollinate them? Bees are around but don't seem to get this far up the garden.
Sowed Calaloo seeds (after seeing it on GW my OH insisted we had to try it). I was expecting them to be like spinach seeds but they're tiny weeny little things, like nicotiana seeds. Sowed a second batch of runner and french beans as nothing germinated from the first batch. I think I overwatered them as the seeds were all gluey and squishy. Pricked out about 50 cornflower seedlings. Felt heroic.
Sowed watermelon, aubergine, and courgette. I've gone for large seed pots and MPC, with the plan to leave them in there until it's time to plant out. They always give me such grief.
Potted on my much neglected tomatoes and cosmos. They didn't do well with the new seed compost I purchased this year, so hopefully the MPC they've been potted on in will help them thrive.
@Thankthecat Let me know how the calaloo gets on, I'm interested in them as well. I am always looking for new stir fry greens to try, that will get on in my climate.
Today was a year in the planning: 1.1 tonnes of manure in. 0.8 tonnes clay out. Two new beds created - one a herb bed with angelica, valerian off., and fennel. Four gorg silver foxes in, four new clems, three old anemone hups. moved to better places. Everything mulched with gorg leaf/wood chip I've been cooking for a year. God, it's satisfying. I'm sore though. The nets are to keep the cats off until all the rest of the planting goes in and grows up a bit. I used Gro-sure manure, which definitely wasn't fully cooked - I could smelt ammonia still in it. Hmm. It'll be fine for growing in, it won't burn anything, but it does all vary so much in quality.
My grand plan is to plant up the second (wallflower) bed with tall ammi, hesperis, milk parsley and other gorg tall things to make a mad, wild, high mass of colourful and umbelly forest. I have no idea of it will work. The soil might now be too rich for the things I want to plant now, but something interesting will happen. I look forward to posting photos of the results, about August time.
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Have some Malvas as to do as well, but tomorrow is another day.
Looking at the packet, l see they like moist, fertile, well drained soil in full sun. I'm not sure such a thing exists, but l wish l had it! 🤔
Potted on my much neglected tomatoes and cosmos. They didn't do well with the new seed compost I purchased this year, so hopefully the MPC they've been potted on in will help them thrive.
My grand plan is to plant up the second (wallflower) bed with tall ammi, hesperis, milk parsley and other gorg tall things to make a mad, wild, high mass of colourful and umbelly forest. I have no idea of it will work. The soil might now be too rich for the things I want to plant now, but something interesting will happen. I look forward to posting photos of the results, about August time.