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July gardens
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
... in autumn, i had a bucket full of coriander seed that i couldn't seem to organise planting anywhere, so i threw it around in a few garden beds & now we have more coriander than i think i have ever seen! Ditto! Mine self seeded all over the end of one bed and into the path at the end of last summer and its growing beatifully ATM. i'm going to put more seed out seeing as how i still have loads of seed, and one new garden bed i was starting up last autumn seems to have all gone wrong after the frosts - i put in a few plants that were going wonderfully, but it looks now like they are completely dead. it is most exasperating as it's unusual for any new thing i put in here to start off so well!!! (that must have been the problem!!) so i might as well cover it in coriander for now while i have a think. also, i think any of us could do worse than have things like rocket or coriander self-seeding about the place - you can eat it, the plants look good when they go to seed, and it keeps the ground covered while you think about what you would like to do. (and frankly i'm a huge fan of any plant that does all the work for you). there are lots of veg kicking along nicely (things that like winter, obviously) but for the most part i'm ignoring everything unless eating it - there's enough rain to water them & i mulched for winter long ago of course. anyway, i'm finding it a convenient time to be run off my feet with other things beside the garden. i find winter extraordinarily difficult tbh. it's just so cold here & when there's been 3 days without sunlight i start to lose my mind. Yep. All that sodding cloud and not a drop of real rain - **** ghastly mizzle at the best! it is becoming rather exasperating (probably not as exasperating as in victoria atm though). whenever it does rain, the dam level simply does not change. Today I weeded the asparagus bed and half of one of the veg beds. tomorrow I'll spread horse poop and leaves on the weeded veg bed and give the asparagus a dose of dolomite. i'm just in the process of moving all of my asparagus down the back. the young ones i've got in pots are fine, although i wasn't really thinking about how many i have (24 or something) & i don't have the bed space!! and will have to quickly sort something out. the older ones are 2.5 years now, & are staggeringly difficult to dig out!!!!! mainly, i hope i don't kill them in the process - that would be a bugger :-) so i've decided not to hope for any asparagus this year in case the big plants are still recovering (or are dead ;-) & the small ones too small. they've started shooting already although of course the shoots die when it frosts, so they are clearly not dormant still. but, once they are moved & settled it is nice to think there'll be asparagus every spring with no special work on my behalf, 3 cheers for perennials eh. kylie |
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