Daisy in the Garden
Monday, 11 November 2024
Monday, 28 October 2024
Sweet Peas 💐 - time to Autumn sow 🌿
Bearing in mind I am in the far South West of Cornwall and your ideal sowing time might be different to mine . For me , today is the day I'm sowing my Sweet Peas .
I have sown them as late as the end of November and I prefer to sow mine in the Autumn rather than the Spring. I find that they grow much stronger when sown now .
I bought two lovely generous packets of seeds from Premier Seeds Direct . Sweet Pea "Royal Family" . A mixture of red ,white and blue .
I pulled out all of the Black Eye Suzies and replaced the canes with some taller ones .
Scattered the seeds over the surface .
This picture shows that more clearly and I have added a nice thick layer of multi-purpose compost over the top .... and watered them in really well . A whole watering-can full .
It's not so much the cold that would harm them so much as the risk of the young tender shoots snapping off in the wind . So I have tied on a sheet of garden fleece .
And I tie it on really good and strong .
I can't stand this string . I find it very slippery to tie . It'll have to do for now , couldn't find the good stuff . I will keep checking on this every now and then to make sure it doesn't start working it's way undone .
That's that job done .
🥬Wheelbarrow Lettuces 🥬
Lettuces enjoying the Cornish mizzle and doing alright in the wheelbarrow .
Safe from slugs and snails ...and the bunnykins can't reach them ! Ha ha !
I've been taking a couple of leaves off each one every other day or so . I had thought I'd done the last pick from these , but they still keep on growing .
I have another two waves of these lettuces coming along up in the shed for succession . Yet another lot in the veg trug are not doing so well , hard to keep the slugs off them . 🐌🐌🐌
Wheelbarrow lettuces are the way to go !