Summer is just around the corner. “The longest day of the year is just around the corner”. When you say it out load it’s scary. It sounds like that’s it for the summer and it’s all downhill from here on. Fortunately, we gardeners know that’s not the case. The equinox may bring the peak of day length but it’s just the beginning of summer in every other sense. Many annual plants and hanging baskets have only just gone out and their displays will be at their best towards the end…
Here is a little snippet from what happened last week: This week the children were off, so what better way to spend one of the days engaging with the younger members of the community by planting pumpkins. Fran had pre-planted the seeds, so we had the pleasure of seeing the formed pumpkin plant. My job as well as safeguarding the children was to get the children to write Names they would like to pumpkins to be on a piece of paper. After Frances demonstrated how the Pumpkin plants went in…
I can’t believe its May already. Last month’s blog just didn’t materialize on time so this one will combine what we did in April and what we plan for May.
To plant a seed today means you believe in tomorrow.
Spring has officially arrived even though some of the plants at Loftus thought so weeks ago and are already breaking into leaf.
February is a month of mainly pruning, feeding and tidying up, all of which we have been busy doing.
January is a miserable month for gardening and I doubt you have many jobs in your own garden that can’t wait for some nicer weather.
I’m pleased to say everyone’s hedges are finally in and over the next few weeks the last of the street beds will be planted up.
Nights are fast drawing in and with loosing an hour of daylight when the clock change, this month always feels like a race against time. It’s a last chance to get those lawn jobs done while the soil is moist but still warm.
Autumn is up on us. Nights are drawing in and we are now officially in meteorological autumn.
I’m so relieved that everything has perked up with this recent rain and cooler temperatures. No matter how much you water with a hose pipe there’s nothing quite the same as natural rain to make plants thrive.
Lawns in particular are struggling but it’s not impossible to have a lush green lawn despite this crazy weather, but you will have to work at it.