Starting from scratch in June?

Hi everyone,

I have just moved into a new house that comes with a very small garden. There is a narrow longish flowerbed in front of a high fence, in which nothing but weeds seems to have grown for quite a while.

The ground seems mostly sandy with only the odd patch of clay. There are a lot of stones in there, and it is very dry. It's south facing, but some of the sun is blocked by trees, so I would say semi-shady.

So far I have ripped out the weed and I managed to turn over the top layer of soil (maybe 15 or 20 cm). Under that the soil is very hard and stony and I broke a cultivator trying to get in there. (Chances are that I didn't really get all the roots.)

I would like to grow something colourful in the flowerbed, preferably something that reaches a certain height in order to cover some of the boring fence, but I'm worried that June is too late to start from seeds. As it is a rental, I'm not sure how long I'll live there, so I would ideally like to find something that is affordable and that I can enjoy this summer.

I'd be grateful for any ideas.

 

Great idea, thanks! I'll look into it.

 

Hi Quizine, welcome to the forum; I'm new too. Good advice from JWK and also if you're rural or fancy a leisure drive into the country you can find plants for sale outside people's homes.

I live rurally and bought Tomato Plants and Strawberry Plants this year after a bit of a disaster with my Seedlings getting too hot in the Greenhouse.