Spring Has Sprung: My Spring Gardening In Pictures
Things are starting to look promising but this is not the time to lose your head.
You may be seeing summer loving veggie plants at the garden centres but unless you have a glasshouse this is not the time to be planting your tomatoes or chillies or cucumbers.
Spring Has Sprung: My Spring Gardening In Pictures
Are you ready for some insights?
For me it’s the time to get some less frost tender seeds sown-leafy greens, hardy brassicas and any flowers to feed all the pollinators you want in your garden.
Slow and steady is the key when it comes to sowing because who wants and needs 8 broccoli at one time so look at sowing 2-3 and then 2-3 in a couple weeks time.
Planting Flowers
Now this picture is a perfect example of “do what I say not what I do”. This was from several years ago and I was beginning to increase my flowers game so now it’s a lot less as I have planted a good mix of perennials and flowers that self seed nicely like nasturtiums and marigolds.
Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Courgettes & Chillies
I generally start to get my tomatoes, cucumbers courgettes, beans and chillies sown in a week or so then that means they will be ready to go in the ground first week of November which hopefully means they are a bit more resilient.
Spring Plant Protection: Not just from the frost!
The other job on the cards is protection and that’s not necessarily from the weather.
As the ground warms up the worms start to come to the surface which means the birds turn destructive kicking out your newly planted seedlings, digging up all your newly laid mulch and just generally being(excuse my French)bloody annoying.
So as I plant things in the ground I start them off with cover. This can be hops under netting or individual covers.
Below is examples of what I’ve used in the past and continue to use now.
Glorious Garlic & Terrific Plant Tonic
The garlic is looking great and I got onions in the ground the other day so once a week I like to give them a seaweed tonic feed and our blue drum of seaweed was topped up over the winter to break down, it has stopped smelling which is the sign it’s ready to use.
I add one cup of tonic to a 9ltr watering can and this does the whole bed. I’ll do this all summer for the plants to give them extra nutrients and a bit of strength to produce nice size bulbs.
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them”
Winnie the Pooh
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