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Blogtober 2023 : Day 7
I am not keeping up with blogging every day – I almost feel good that I am not as really I obviously didn’t or couldn’t… I have achieved a lot this week and want to document it so I know that although I didn’t always show up as I should still I did show up for some of it… Mums Umbrella – down and packed away… done Car booked MOT -done Dentist booked – done Things off a shopping list – like loo rolls and foil and the likes… Storage paid – sounds mad but the amount of months I don’t paid and add to the IOU and then have…
- About, Allotment, Annuals, Biennials, Bulbs, Corms, Flowers, life, Me, Month, Perennials, Planting, Seeds
September 2022
As Summer comes to an end and Autumn looms and September usually brings the feeling of new beginnings for me I am beginning to take stock of the year so far and look ahead at what I would like to achieve for next year. I didn’t really join in the Autumn seed sowing in 2021 – I just had way to much over whelm and I had just started a new job (turned out to be 2 new jobs as the 1st didn’t work out!). I didn’t stress I just decided that I didn’t need the pressure and that I would sow seeds in the spring time.
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Mid July
It’s HOT very very HOT (uncharacteristically so for UK) and while I am actually doing fine in this heat – so are the weeds I might add… the flowers on the other hand – ummmmm not so good. A lot of them are just basically getting fried – I definitely need to remember to have a space set up and sorted out for if we get weather like this – somewhere shady where I can move any pots plants that are extremely venerable to being fried. So I am thinking next years planting and plants – So far I have sown some of my Biennial – a few more to…
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July Sowing 1
Today I sowed my first Biennials for this year… Foxgloves, Echinacea, Verbascum Phoeniceum. I just sowed them up in a mix of compost and coir compost and in plastic fruit trays that I keep, the trays already have drainage holes in the bottom and I fill with the compost mix and water from underneath. I have put these 3 containers into the greenhouse and I will cover with a mesh to allow sunlight through but to stop the birds from eating seeds and then seedlings. Where I live at the moment we have a HUGE amount of wild birds and while this is absolutely fantastic and an honour that they…
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Ideas For Planting Biennials 22
Pencilled in to my seed planting diary June 21st Summer Solstice – Biennials are sown usually end of June-ish and should flower the following year. I am going to try sowing these in the soil blockers and Lupins I just love Lupins and I have too many seeds already really but I am going to order more – what is they say to plant a seed is to believe in tomorrow… So I have PinkFairy Sunrise (these are annual so I will not sow these now but spring to flower in the summer) I am going to order and sow in June The Governor (Navy Blue) Mixture of all the…
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Tulips
Autumn 2020 I bought a fair few bulbs – Tulips are one of my very very favourite flower I just adore all stages of them. It was the first year that I actually ordered any particular ones – previously I have bought bags from the garden centres and never really considered types or colours. 2020 I changed my mind and poured over the catalogues and order certain ones – you can see what I ordered and read about it here and also part 2. After disappointment and just generally feeling meh about growing them I decided this year (21-22) I would just see what happened to the ones that I…
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Daffodils
I have never planted or grown daffs – I always thought I would if I had a garden of my own – the garden I have at the moment is with our house that is rented and they have lovely daffs, which I am enjoying seeing this spring. Also general daffs are so so cheap in the shops it seems a shame to cut them from the garden – however during the last 2 or so years I am realising what huge range / varieties are out there that I am just loving that I am going to make a list and grow some of the more unusual ones for…
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March – mid
This is about the third post I have written for March – Its been a funny old month and every time I have written something – life has thrown a curve ball and not really made what I have written relevant… So… I am running very behind on all the Autumn and Early Spring grow alongs – the seeds are very few and far between… and of course this year with the allotment I have a ton of space to put everyting… WHY AM I BEHIND… This mainly runs to my health – I was diagnosed in Feb with Low Thyroid (I will write about this in a separate section…
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Asters
This is my first Aster flower – ‘Ostrich Plume’ these seeds were Higgledy Seeds I sowed them around March – April 2021 (I can’t remember the exact date but probably nearer April due to the weather) they were a last minute purchase as I was unsure about Asters but I read the Barbara Cartland bit and kinda went – how can I not give them a whirl – I am so glad I did I adore them xx On the list for 2022 – notes for next year try succession sow from March – maybe 3 batches – I think 1 maybe 2 per 10 lts pot. – feed –…
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Dahlias
So NGL is still one of my favourite sayings (Not Gonna Lie) – I fell out of love with Dahlias for various reasons – they are difficult to grow – they get all sort of beasties – they also succumb to rain damage in the bud stage or petal stage – the tubers are tricky customers to store and sort eyes and all that malarkey… needless to say I managed to kill all the ones I had… I shrugged and went you know what not for me – and then a friend via Instagram sent me some in a seed swap – seed dahlia – well nothing to lose give…