Diary of a weekend gardener

A good slow autumn

So far no frost and no gales so everything's lasting ages. Took the chocolate cosmos and the tender fuchsias under cover today and finished top dressing the lawn.

The odds of picking winter salads from the polytunnel have decreased sharply as slugs have eaten every last seedling!

Some of the Thalictrum delavayi, freesia laxa and the tall white scabious seeds have germinated already. Must try to keep them frost free and dryish over winter. Most likely problem is mildew which is already affecting the pelargoniums.

posted by Sue Beesley @ 9:03 pm