Looking Good in the Garden in Mid-November
The greenhouse benches are filling up with autumn sown seedlings. These hippeastrum bulbs (also known as amaryllis) should sprout soon and flower around Christmas. Containers of miniature bulbs have...
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Peas, soaked overnight and sown in a length of gutter Two brackets attached to the greenhouse shelf are used to hold the gutter sown with peas Pots of Mara de Bois strawberries, overwintered in the...
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Weeds are springing up everywhere so don’t delay dealing with them Sow runner beans, dwarf beans and other tender vegetables in the greenhouse Pot on seedlings as soon as you can handle them If you...
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Sweet peas in Cold frame I’m not always the world’s most efficient or organised gardener, but there are certain things that I always try to do. One of these is to sow my saved sweet pea seed in...
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The autumn sown sweet pea plants are looking very good in the coldframe and they seem perfectly content with my regime of benign neglect (i.e. occasionally peering inside the frame). The roots are...
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Peas, soaked overnight and sown in a length of gutter Two brackets attached to the greenhouse shelf are used to hold the gutter sown with peas Pots of Mara de Bois strawberries, overwintered in the...
View ArticleSweet Peas
Sweet peas in Cold frame I’m not always the world’s most efficient or organised gardener, but there are certain things that I always try to do. One of these is to sow my saved sweet pea seed in...
View ArticleSweet Peas in Waiting
The autumn sown sweet pea plants are looking very good in the coldframe and they seem perfectly content with my regime of benign neglect (i.e. occasionally peering inside the frame). The roots are...
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