For summer plants! OK, so pruning isn’t the only activity that’s had us in a spin here in the garden. The last week saw several deliveries by post from various seed companies (after I’d agonised over which to order from catalogues). While I save many seed from year to year, sometimes it’s best to start afresh, to take on a new experiment or two, or to revisit a variety that was forgotten or not successful first time around….you know the old saying: “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”! And so it is that this year, I have rather a lot of seed packets to be excited about!
While many summer seed can be sown direct, (beans, cucumber, pumpkin, zucchini), we must wait for the chance of late frost to be long-gone, and also for the soil to warm. I’m particularly keen to get ahead with certain varieties of tomato and aubergine, so we’ve sown seed into punnets, where they are now spending time on a heat mat in the potting shed. There they sit, along with varieties of lettuce, leeks and a few herbs & flowers I’m keen to try again.
Now patiently (or perhaps I should say rather impatiently!), we wait…..
I say we, because the other reason for lack of posts this last week is that we have a new addition to Glenmore…in the form of an apprentice gardener! This is the most exciting news for us that you can imagine. His name is Alex and he began here last week, and while I don’t have a photo for you….(we’ve been so busy wielding secateurs, saws, carting barrows to the compost heap, taking cuttings, moving plants, sowing seed and making copious notes for planning ahead), you’ll be sure to meet him soon.