February 06, 2011

early Feb activities

Absolutely absolutely absolutely had to start sowing seeds today! Umm. Well, we bought some seed compost today, so I guess it's a bit of a step closer. :-/

I did find a bunch of bulbs which I'd bought for putting on the allotment, but the flower patch never got dug out, so they didn't get planted. All dated Sep-Dec for planting. Oops. Well, they mostly looked like they were well on their way, so shouldn't be /too/ far behind now.

Planted:
* yellow tulips
* white red edging tulips
* 2 lots of mixed tulips
* those long thin tulips with waists
* handful of crocus (yellow, white)
* couple of narcisus
* something else, can't remember what bt they were pretty and colourful

Also, bought some extras from Wilkinson, 2 of which went out today:
* pair of asiatic lilies (very pretty colour, not seen it before, kind of orangey-green with little spots)
* 10 gladioli in an unusual colour.

And I've still got a bunch of dahlia and fresias which can't go out until after last frost.

As well as planting, I've trimmed back a bunch of things in the garden (never sure what to do with clematis 'dead' looking stuff, cos they suddenly spring into new growth from the stuff I want to cut off and throw away!) and disposed of a load of dead looking stuff. Put some of the bulbs above into the giant planter under the window, tidied up some empty pots and seed trays, threw away a binbag full of junk and tat ...

Oh, and just remembered I missed the 18 hyacinth bulbs I spread around, too! Horrid evil things! the second I even looked at them my face and neck were itching uncontrollably. I swear I didn't touch them without gloves! *scratch*

Posted by Andwynn at February 6, 2011 10:52 PM