Tomatoes (minibel and gardener’s delight), courgettes (green bush and Astia), spring onions, peppers (first try with those) and peas (calibra). I’ll do salads and herbs next month.
Flower seeds I usually do a different one each week from now on - I have plenty of free packs from magazines. Sweet peas and cornflowers done. Maybe the Cosmos next.
Dug out an old tree root and an old ivy root by the back fence, then planted a Clematis montana 'Tetrarose' I bought yesterday. I had intended to plant 'Freda' but couldn't find one locally and didn't want to get one by mail-order.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Dug up and divided a Kniphofia, gave 4 bits away and replanted the remaining two in different spots. Re-cut lawn edges (and pinched a bit more), weeded and cut down old Stipa Gigantic canes. Re-planted gone over Iris 'Harmony' into my new flower bed.
@AuntyRach where did you get the calibra seeds? I used the last of mine last year and couldn’t find them this year. I used to get them at DtBrowns but no joy when I placed my order this year.
@AuntyRach where did you get the calibra seeds? I used the last of mine last year and couldn’t find them this year. I used to get them at DtBrowns but no joy when I placed my order this year.
Confession… they are leftover from last year. They are Mr Fothergill’s brand, which are often widely available so hope you can find some.
Yes been busy in the garden today. Collected 12 bags of beech leaves from nooks and crannies to store for Lord knows how many years to hopefully turn into leaf mold. Put 6 bags of fabulous well rotted cow muck on 2 raised veg beds and 2 bags on a new flower bed.
Sowed the free sunflower seeds from GW magazine this morning. Potted up 20 nerine bowdenii bulbs into 3 pots. Lightly pruned a cotoneaster and some hydrangeas. And fed all my potted perennials for the first time this year. This afternoon I went to a garden centre and picked up 3 hydrangeas "Annabelle" and a couple of Euphorbia characias wolfenii.
Here's an odd thing: one of my rudbeckias ('Goldsturm') pushing out a flower in March Should I snip it off?
I sowed my broad beans and peas. I sorted out the remains of my autumn sown sweet peas. I have salvaged 11 plants from 48 sown. Mice dug up and ate the rest. I have brought my freshly sown peas into the conservatory until they are big enough to plant out. Discovered a forgotten, potted, Crown Imperial bulb in a pot of narcissus. I thought initially, it was a lily bud but the flower is already showing red. The stem is only 3/4 ins tall. I have decided to leave well alone for another year to see if it sorts itself out. The mulberry and quince both have new buds breaking, fingers crossed we are spared any storms such as we had last year when most of the flowers were stripped by the wind. I must cover my fan trained pear this year to protect the flowers from the wind.
Yeah! Finally finished cleaning the greenhouse, it is all ready now to receive this seasons offerings.
Unbelievable. 4 days ago I sowed some Ipomea seeds, they are up with their seed leaves unfurling. I thought Cosmos germinated quickly but I think the Ipomea are quicker.
Posts
Tomatoes (minibel and gardener’s delight), courgettes (green bush and Astia), spring onions, peppers (first try with those) and peas (calibra).
I’ll do salads and herbs next month.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
This afternoon I went to a garden centre and picked up 3 hydrangeas "Annabelle" and a couple of Euphorbia characias wolfenii.
Here's an odd thing: one of my rudbeckias ('Goldsturm') pushing out a flower in March
Should I snip it off?
I sorted out the remains of my autumn sown sweet peas. I have salvaged 11 plants from 48 sown. Mice dug up and ate the rest. I have brought my freshly sown peas into the conservatory until they are big enough to plant out.
Discovered a forgotten, potted, Crown Imperial bulb in a pot of narcissus. I thought initially, it was a lily bud but the flower is already showing red. The stem is only 3/4 ins tall. I have decided to leave well alone for another year to see if it sorts itself out.
The mulberry and quince both have new buds breaking, fingers crossed we are spared any storms such as we had last year when most of the flowers were stripped by the wind.
I must cover my fan trained pear this year to protect the flowers from the wind.
Unbelievable. 4 days ago I sowed some Ipomea seeds, they are up with their seed leaves unfurling. I thought Cosmos germinated quickly but I think the Ipomea are quicker.