Cornflowers thriving in the greenhouse
Despite total neglect since well before Christmas, all the hardy annuals I sowed in the autumn are looking really good. I will move them all to the coldframe in the next week. They will be fine there and I need to be getting on with some early seed sowing.
Last Saturday I collected a carload of hazel prunings from a local cobnut orchard.
I’ve used some to make an arch for the sweet peas and yesterday afternoon I planted them out. Overwintered marigolds, cornflowers and Love-in-a-Mist have been planted out under the apple and apricot trees.
Peas, soaked overnight and sown in a length of gutter
Two brackets attached to the greenhouse shelf are used to hold the gutter sown with peas
Pots of Mara de Bois strawberries, overwintered in the coldframe, have been tidied and top dressed with fish blood and bone in readiness for an early greenhouse crop
Autumn-sown cornflowers are growing in modules ready to go out in the garden in a few weeks time
The sword-like Astelia leaves look wonderful in the low afternoon sun
Posted in In The Garden
Tagged Astelia, Coldframe, Cornflowers, Peas, strawberries
