Well April is here and the planting season has started. I enjoy growing my plants from cuttings or seed but my husband has very different ideas. He likes buy big and make an instant impact. So on Thursday our new hedge arrived,twenty 9 foot tall laurels! To make a hedge on another boundary. This meant that another digger turned up to dig the trench and help the laurels out of the lorry then it was down to us and the digger to plant the monsters. Luckily my daughter and son were around to help also my mother in law Paddy. We all pushed and pulled and by day two the plants were safely in their new home and we were exhausted. All that was left was to give them a good water and job done. Tomorrow we will buy a leak hose so that we can get water right down by the root ball and then we will feed and mulch around the base to smother any weeds. They have been planted with a good mix of organic matter added to the existing soil so hopefully they will enjoy their new home.
New Hedge
I have managed to get on with digging the vegetable patch and I am itching to get planting. I planted out the broad beans seeds ( a bit late really) also spinach, carrot, beetroot and in a large pot I put some rocket. After a trip to the garden centre ( for the leak hose ) I cheated and brought some pea plants and some garlic so that I could have something green in the vegetable patch. I also moved some rhubarb to the patch that I found growing in another part of the garden.
The weather was so warm and sunny here over the Easter weekend that I took the opportunity to sit in the sun and sow some seeds in module trays. I prefer these mainly because it saves time pricking out. I planted white Cosmos, Sweet peas ( another late sowing and seed saved from last year so not sure what variety it will be) some parsley and chives. I will leave these in the potting shed to germinate.
While working in the garden I noticed a lovely patch of wild primroses hidden away behind an old gazebo. They are one of my favorite spring flowers and when they have finished flowering I must remember to split and move them to where they will be noticed next year.
Wild primroses
Our grass has started to grow really quickly now so cutting is going to be weekly which means I will be spending lots more time in the garden weather permitting. Yippee.
