Showing posts with label vegetable patch; foxgloves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetable patch; foxgloves. Show all posts

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Busy in the veg patch

Today I got from Homebase:
6 January King cabbage seedlings - cleared space between the leeks and the garlic and put them there.
6 african marigold plants - cleared space between beans (getting their first flowers) and the asparagus peas and put them there
beetroot seeds - scattered them amongst the garlic and lightly forked them in with a hand fork. I want them for salad greens. The african marigolds and the cabbages are in slug collars, the beetroot will be exposed!
Nasturtium seeds - some in front garden - but to flower they don't want good soil, so put in cracks in concrete by the back of the house.

I also transplanted one of the elderflowers from the flowerbed (having learnt they probably give up something that is toxic to other shrubs so not good for the countryman's hedge I was planning) into a large pot.

Transplanted 3 x one year old foxgloves into small pots for my friend Tina who I'll be seeing at the end of January, so hope they'll be nicely settled into their pots then.