Adventures in Gardening in Cambridgeshire
I’m beginning to drool as the Courgette ‘Black Beauty’ plants are beginning to flower and form baby courgettes, but the garden pests are queuing up.
The bank holiday sees me spend 4.5 hours in the garden playing catch-up with nature.
The first foxglove opens in the new garden, along with some Dianthus, and the birds flock to my new bird feeders.
A new blank garden has so many jobs to do – so I’ve begun breaking the lawn, and zoning off areas for vegetables, lawn, and flowers, and I’ve built a raised bed.
It’s time to sow the French Beans and to tackle my Antirrhinum forest.
I go hunting for some new Mint plants to kill off.
I beg your pardon, I most certainly did promise myself a rose garden – and I’m choosing the rose plants now.
I sow my first ever Squash ‘Spaghetti Stripetti’ seed, and there’s something odd in my Aubergine ‘Early Long Purple 2’ seed pots.
The Tomato ‘Minibel’ seedlings are ready to be potted on to their individual pots, and head towards their next growing stage.
The Sweet Peas need some tough love in the form of ‘pinching out’, and the Tulip ‘Triumph’ flowers are about to open.
It’s time to start pricking out some of the seedlings and move them into larger pots and onto the next stage of growing.
Giving bare-root Strawberry Elsanta plants a try.
