Gardening blog

Week forty eight November 25th - December 2nd

2006
Wednesday 22nd November 2006. I have finished planting my tulips. I’m not sure why or how I have become so obsessive about planting every single little tulip bulb that I can find every year. It is not as though they are rare, expensive or unusual tulips. They are not. They are just ordinary tulips that can be purchased in ay garden centre in the autumn for around 10 pence a bulb. That is 10p for a flowering sized bulb not a minute bulb that has to be grown for several years before it gets big enough to flower. I guess it’s the ‘waste not want not’ principle. If it can be used, saved or re-used then that is what you do with it.

2005
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th November 2005 As much as last weekend it was Autumn this weekend it was winter. Cold and frosty and I'm still digging up potatoes.

2004
Sunday November 28th 2004 We have hard one or two hard frosts in the last couple of weeks. Enough the knock the Dalias out altogether and send soft any odd potatoes left on the surface. Those still under the ground (I know they should have been dug up by now) are still OK - but I must make an effort and dig any remaining up soon. Started preparing the ground for sowing peas next weekend they are going in ground used for potatoes that were dug up earlier in the year.

2003
November 29/30 2003 The last weekend in November saw a break in the rain and a chance to finish planting the tulips. During the week we had some frost in the back garden so it was also time dig up any remaining dalias. The tulips in the allotment were planted in ground that caulis were growing in. In the garden they went in flower beds where the dalias had been removed.

Started prunning the apple trees.

2002
Saturday 30th November 2002 It's the last day of November and we still haven't had a real frost. The Dahlia leaves were just touched some weeks back but nothing like normal when the whole plant goes brown overnight and keels over. It's good for me as I'm still digging up potatoes and planting tulips.

I gave my small cooking apple tree another good weed around it's roots for the second time this year. Even though it had been done before there was still an amazing amount of grass growing there. The bulbs that had been dug up in the spring have now been moved around again. Hope they don't mind.