All my attempts this year to sow my salad leaves and herbs direct have resulted in a disappointed patchy germination with hardly anything to show for it, so I have been sowing all my salads now in the greenhouse, in trays or guttering and planting them out when big enough. Here I’m planting some Cos, and a variety of Cos called Freckles, and some green oak leaf, and a herb Par-cel (a cross between parsley and celery).
For cut and come again smaller leaves I’ve sowed them all into wooden wine boxes this year, and sow a box every few weeks which has worked really well, they stay nice and undamaged, and it saves valuable ground space to grow something else.
Can anyone identify this moth? We found this strange outside the greenhouse on the floor, never seen one before.
The Cutting garden is going strong at the moment, all the flowers on their own look good, but not in the groupings that I’ve put them in this year, so I’m, going to have to jig that around for next year. Love these Black Peony Poppies, they look stunning, so do the seed heads. They only last a day in water though, so aren’t really worth growing for cutting (although you can use the seed heads). Will be growing these again next year, as they are easy to grow from seed.
This is what the flower garden is looking like at the moment, the Ammi Majus I sowed last autumn reached 2 metres tall, then was almost flattened by the gale force winds we had, despite the staking that I did. I love it although a lot of people think it looks like cow parsley, but it looks lovely in arrangements with black cornflowers, and nigella.
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