Today I really got going with Spring gardening. I gave the greenhouse and lots of pots and seed trays a good clean then got some seeds going. So in the heated propagator are cosmos, jalapenos, chilli etna and lollo rosso. And there wasn't enough room in there for everything I wanted to start today so on the windowsill in the spare room is green curly lettuce, sweet Williams and morning glory. And finally in the greenhouse I've got some sweet peas going. Oh and I planted a scented clematis Montana to climb up the second obelisk. The sweet peas and morning glory are just to fill those out while the clematis get going. So I've started!
March 01, 2009
January 02, 2008
Vegetable Patch?
I've been thinking about trying this area of ground as a very small vegetable bed. Previously I had just gravelled over it as when I tried to dig it, there was something weird about the soil. The previous gardener had perhaps had a patio here - the soil was mixed with sand and some sort of asphalt material. To save getting in a machine to work over the soil, I decided to just leave it as a seating area.
But I'd been reading a lot about raised vegetable beds and am wondering about having a go at them up here. I'm in two minds though - will the soil actually be contaminated and not a great place to site a raise bed? Am I better off just putting courgettes, garlic, tomatoes and beans in containers?
