I’ve been trying to get motivated to start sorting out the greenhouse and garden. I need to make some serious progress in order to get started on the autumn planting I have planned now that the calendar says September.
I love autumn, it’s such a beautiful season and it’s the perfect time to plant.
I spent several hours at the weekend wading through a bulb catalogue, choosing the tulips I want to plant now for a spectacular spring display. I want to force some bulbs in the greenhouse to get some early flowers and I simply love to see pots of tulips breaking into colour in March and April.
I think I might order some crocus too, but the last time I planted several hundred in swaths under my birch trees, only one came up!
I realised I had provided the local vole population with a veritable winter feast, so this time I plan to sprinkle the bulbs with a little chilli pepper before planting, that should make them unpalatable and maybe allow more than one little bulb to grow and flower.
Watch this space
