My garden has started to really come to life, and we’ve spent some time over the last few weekends trying to tame it. It looks best in spring, but that also is the time that we also have to prune hard, and often the cuttings are more suitable to our green bin than our compost bins.
But it’s a time of year when we know summer is on its way and it’s time to sow and plant out in earnest. Usually it’s the month to look forward to RHS Chelsea, and this year, it will be quite different. We should still be doing the Chelsea chop, which is about as hard as discarding the weaker seedlings. The chop involves cutting perennials back by half, to make sturdier plants and encourage more flowers.
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May in the garden
It really is the month where we gear up for lots of activity, whether that’s weeding - and no doubt plenty of it or pruning. Usually its a time for summer bedding, and again, that’s different again this year with gardens centres remaining closed.
On my to do list:
Nurturing my seedlings in the greenhouse, potting them on to give them the best chance of providing edibles later on.
This year I’m also growing some flowers from seeds, so
Continue to cut back and tidy the shrubs in our garden, with the euonymus high on our list.
There’s still some jasmine care to do - my jasmine’s provide one of those mindful tasks, removing the dried ends by hand is strangely therapeutic.
Keeping an eye out on my strawberries and the cherry tree - we’re already chasing off pigeons!
Sow some more seeds, with squash, courgettes and more lettuce and herbs on my list.
Reduce the height of our lilac once its finished flowering, but in the meantime enjoy those flowers and their scent!
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