Gardening blog
Week thirty nine September 23rd - September 30th
2022
September 30th The last visit in September 2022 - digging potatoes.
September 28th Youtube video - A visit to finish planting the first packet of onion sets with a little compost
September 27th allotment visit Youtube video - Planting Japanese onions sets and garlic. Digging up Greengage tree suckers.
September 25th allotment visit Youtube video - Another quick visit to the allotment at the end of a busy spent elsewhere
2006
September 30th The last visit in September 2022 - digging potatoes.
September 28th Youtube video - A visit to finish planting the first packet of onion sets with a little compost
September 27th allotment visit Youtube video - Planting Japanese onions sets and garlic. Digging up Greengage tree suckers.
September 25th allotment visit Youtube video - Another quick visit to the allotment at the end of a busy spent elsewhere
2006
Wednesday 27th September 2006. Tsoday I planted out 20 Cyclamen Hederifolium
in the front garden that arrived as part of my mail order delivery yesterday.
Delivery note for my August 2006 bulb order that includes daffoldils, cyclamen,
crocus, eremurus and scilla
Peruviana.
I
sit and look at the front garden on a daily basis and it generally looks a
mess (although at the moment there are a few Cyclamen flowering there that
look nice).
When we first moved to the house the previous owners had emptied the front garden
dug it over and planted three miniature conifers in it. We moved in during
December and before March was out so were the conifers (I moved them to the
back garden where one grew higher than the house before it was cut down to
size) and planted three plum trees there instead.
Only two of the plums trees
are still there (the middle one grew too big and had to be removed) on the
left is a Golden Drop Greengage and on the right a Victoria Plum. Both are
now mature trees and crop heavily each year (this year was a particularly
good year for the Greengage). The garden is small and I have to prune the
braches that overhang the pavement and the approach to the front door each
year. Other than that the trees have grown pretty much as they will. If at
the start, years ago, I knew what I know now, they would have both been
pruned to shape every year in the
early summer
when small green plums were on the branches.
I have tried growing a variety of plants both under the trees and (since the
middle one was removed) between the trees. The species crocus struggled on
flowering
for a few years before they slowly disappeared. The gooseberry bush in the
middle looked great in the winter after it had been pruned and did set fruit,
but once the trees had leaves on the fruit ceased to swell so that was removed
and sent back to the allotment. Tulips will grow for a year or so, but really
need to be dug up and replaced each year.
Now there are snowdrops in the middle (as of last year) along with the Cyclamen, there are Irises down one side with grape hyacinths amongst them, a small pink geranium of one of the trees, pink campion that will seed themselves anywhere and would love to take over the whole place if permitted and white comfrey along
the back under the wall that also have babies that need to be moved back into
position each year. There were bluebells growing under the trees
at one time but even they don’t seem to like it there and gradually disappear,
although they may just be complaining about the continual disturbance that bluebells
don't like.
2005
Sunday September 25th 2005 Another lovely warm sunny day. I opened the three
remaining hives in Geoff's apiary and took off a super each and put their
strips in. John gave me some over winter onion seed that I have sown in the
bed in front of the Worecester Pearman apple tree.
Friday September 23rd 2005. !t was raining as I left for the allotment a
warm consistent rain that gets you wet although great for weeding and
planting out cabbages in. The leeks have suffered badly from leek moth and
I have torn many off a few inches above the ground. Then it stopped raining
and the sun came out low in the sky. Every raindrop hanging from every leaf
had a glint in then. Then there was the rainbow in the eastern sky stretching
from North to South over the whole allotment plot. Half of the rainbow disappeared
and was replaced by orangey, salmon pink
clouds. The birds were flying high across the plot in pairs and all of this
before
the
sunset
proper
started with it complex strands of gold. Because of the rain I was the only one
around to see.
2003
Thursday 25th September 2003
The ground is getting very dry again and I am continuing to keep a low-pressure
hose going full time day and night moving from one crop to the next. At the
moment it is the caulis turn.
Wednesday 24th September 2003
Rain and hailstone today, although not enough rain it has made a bit of
difference to the allotment. I am digging up potatoes and sowing onion seed
in their place. The ground was just about damp enough to transplant some
strawberry plants out (the parent plants had a small late crop of sweet berries
on them). The latest sown runner beans are still cropping and hopefully will
continue to do so until a hard frost comes along and kills them off. The
nights are getting cold now, so a frost may not be long in arriving. I must
start preparing the ground in order to plant out a row of spring cabbage
and have yet to finish planting the Japanese onion sets. The heavy pruning
that I have been doing over the last few years to the old Worcester apple
tree is, I think, paying of as many of the apple have increased in size.
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Saturday September 23rd
The way the slugs are eating the cabbages may see the broad beans planted under the apple tree as originaly planned….
The way the slugs are eating the cabbages may see the broad beans planted under the apple tree as originaly planned….
