Terrariums, or bottle gardens, are mess-free and easy to care for, creating little landscapes for house plants that are both calming and therapeutic. They’re easy to make, look perfect on a desk or coffee table and make excellent gifts.
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THE GROUND HAD A FROZEN CRUST MOST MORNINGS until this week, but it’s finally time for more early things to go into the garden, besides the peas and spinach. Things like chard, above, and these:I already sowed my first short rows of salad greens and arugula, one in the coldframe and one in open ground. The protected ones are up; I’ll repeat the modest sowings in open ground every 10 days or two weeks all season long, a little bit at a time, for a continuous bowl of greens. This is how I sow salad stuff.
My seed potatoes—which is what small potatoes for planting are called—should be arriving before long, and will go into the garden late this month. How I plant potatoes.
My asparagus bed is more than 20 years old and still providing; my neighbor’s is more than half again as old, and going strong. Impressive. I expect the first spears by late this month. How to plant asparagus.
I’ll plant beets soon as well, to insure lots of delicious beet-laden salads like this one, remember?
What are you planting?
(All my “edibles” posts are here, in case you want to browse. Or browse through the subject of growing from seed in general. Enjoy!)
Categoriesfrom seed vegetablesTerrariums, or bottle gardens, are mess-free and easy to care for, creating little landscapes for house plants that are both calming and therapeutic. They’re easy to make, look perfect on a desk or coffee table and make excellent gifts.
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Grow with the flow and in early spring that flow is in the greenhouse
Growing Hyacinths
When one man went to mow it was to mow a meadow. Do you want to let your lawn get into that state? If not here are some tips but probably not enough to get you a stately home lawn.
Think before you allow poppies to proliferate. Poppies rob a lot of goodness from your soil.
This is one of the many books in my collection but the only one to focus on growing big, bigger and biggest vegetables. If you want to grow giant vegetable for exhibition or to get large crops then there are many pointers in ‘How to Grow Giant Vegetables’ by Bernard Lavery and below.
I am no great fan of large leaved hostas probably due to lack of space in my garden where I prefer to grow other plants. However the dwarf varieties are easy to get on with.
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There are two great uses for Geraniums that make it worth growing these fine flowering plants. Outdoors they make fantastic border plants and the red varieties are very popular in formal bedding schemes. The second use is as a long flowering houseplant and if you deadhead and feed you plants you will get lots of geraniums from one windowsill plant.
Ipomea indica the blue form of Morning Glory is a cool clear blue, a startling colour in the garden. As you would expect from a member of the Convolvulous clan it is a strong twisting and binding climber.