There was a lot of tidying in the garden in April.
The garden furniture was cleaned and returned to the patio once it had been jet washed and all the pots were taken from their winter storage and the cloches and fleeces put away and everything put into place for the rest of the year. Still looking for a home for the orange buckets with the bay tree cuttings.
The temporary metal framed green house that I bought during covid has been dismantled now and taken to the tip. The compost bins with an old scaffolding plank have made an ideal potting bench.
The raised beds were weeded and planted out with veg I'd grown from seeds.
The parsley, strawberries and rhubarb had been under cloches from last year.
I bought two tomato plants that were almost dead from a supermarket as I was late planting mine and I still haven't put them out yet.
I left the cosmos in the second raised bed to flower first before digging this bed over. I've seen them in the garden centres at £7 for 6 plants. No idea where these came from, they just grew here. I'll have a lovely display.
So far this year I've grown from seeds and planted out: Courgettes, beans, sweet peas and coriander.
The tomatoes, melons, peppers and cucumbers are too small to be planted out just yet.
We eat a lot of basil, especially in the summer. We take lots of cuttings and create new plants throughout the year. At the moment we have 5 large plants and several more cuttings on the go. There's always one in the kitchen on the windowsill.
After moving the greenhouse I discovered the neighbours ivy is creeping back. When I got the house back in December 2019 she had allowed it grow out of control and it caused our fence to collapse. I now spray it regularly with weed killer and at some point we'll remove our fence panel and let the ivy fall into our garden so we can hack it back as far as we can without going on to her property.
We're almost at the end of May now. There's been a lot more planting and a visit to the RHS Spring festival in Malvern.
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