planning my garden!

I ordered a cubic metre of compost to be delivered but am not really spacially aware and didnt realise just how much there would be !!To make matters worse i then realised i had thrown the wheelbarrow out as it had broken. My ever protesting husband spent a good few hours saturday carting the stuff in an Ike bag from the front to the back of the house then putting it back into the bag!
I spent a few hours yesterday going through all my gardening library books maing a note of the plants i wanted. I had some brochures of a coupel of places which sends out very young plants which have to be grown on a bit but they are about �£2--3 per plant. even so I got up to about �£200 last night!My husband tells me I will have to go without shoes for a year!I think i will finish the list later!

 

How about seeds. My first year I bought 28 packets of seeds, which produced over 800 plants. They filled my totally new/empty garden. I also bought some plants, which have now increased in number. One Lobelia Queen Victoria bought 3 years ago has now turned into 30.

Don't spend too much - you might find that in a couple of years time you know more and want different plants. Get a pair of wellies instead. :D :D

 

I might buy some annuals but generally i am not good with seeds. I dont have a green house or cold frame or anything. a few years ago i had loads of trays on window lwdge which started off ok but as soon as they have to be transplanted they all die or i forget to water them or something!

 

How about trying some jiffy 7s, which are little round discs of peat in a casing, which yoiu let soak up water. If you put a single seed in each, you won't need to pot it on - and you can plant it in the plug, straight into the ground. Two Wests and Eliot do them if you want to try

http://www.TwoWests.co.uk
Good luck (it's a lot cheaper !!!)

 

hey now thats a good idea. its always that stage that they fail( mainly due to neglect!) that way they have minimal interference from me

 

definitely worth a try. There are also rockwool things - but that's a bit fiddlier. The TW site does that too, if you want to have a look.