Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Plans for Spring gardening 2025

The plans should be well underway by now, but a bout of the flu caught me off guard so I'm a couple of weeks behind with my 'getting ready to plant' so I'll be tweaking the plan and planting a bit more in the greenhouse than planned.

I like to do one job at a time:

Weed.


Sift soil (will wait now until after the bluebells have flowered)


Fill pots (will fill pots with the soil from the dust bins in the front garden)

Plant fruit trees.

Sow seeds in raised beds.

Move (wooden) green house.


Dismantle (plastic) green house that's been housing more delicate plants over the winter.


Build a herb bed using the old wagon wheel.

Plans have changed, priorities have changed and it's a good job, because I hadn't given much thought as to where the fruit trees were going to live and once the pots are filled and the trees planted they won't be moved (too heavy).

I tried to draw a plan.

I can't visualise it properly.

Moved the (wooden) greenhouse to the back garden (after identifying where the best sunlight was)


Prepped the pots for planting.

Seeds have been sorted and gardening books consulted. Don't think I'll have much use for Gardening in Oman and the UAE anymore.



One job I keep meaning to do EVERY YEAR is to dig up the bulbs after they have flowered and put them in containers, as we want to revamp the front garden and I don't want to lose the bulbs or have them popping through the new lawn.


Next up:

Weed beds, plant seeds for green house and in beds (buy tomato seeds)

Move the table and chairs to the lawn, move the empty pots around until I'm happy with their position, check the table and chairs fit, then fill pots, plant trees

Build herb bed.

I'll be back the end of April with the finished project.



4 comments:

  1. I have had a bit of a clean up (well I paid someone to do it) and I've prepped some pots for planting, I'm expecting my seeds in April so I'm real excited. I just need to get my son to mow the lawn. I think you are doing really well. Can't wait for summer now.

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    1. Hubby mowed the lawn and had to re seed some patches. The seeds will be planted later today.

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  2. We are in the process of getting the garden ready for the warmer weather #pocolo

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    1. I think we're pretty much all done now as we get to the end of April

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