I unmulched my dahlias today (I overwinter them in the ground).
For the last couple of years I've successfully used milk jugs as cloches with rosemary and garlic oil sprinkled around as a slug deterrent. The cloches provide warmth after the mulch mound has gone too.
Also mounded up my 1st earlies (Lady Christl variety), dug out the diseased rose bush (replaced with a munstead lavender), weeded out half a bucket of horsetail, and started sawing up reclaimed wood for a diy project. #allotment
@laurenheywood Things are definitely progressing. The front of your plot will look quite the shop window when it is all in flower.
I’ve been mulching my earlies up for 10 days or so. I watched bees busy pollinating the blackcurrants this afternoon while I was hand pulling the horsetail and bind weed around the raspberries.
The phacelia isn’t far away from flowering, nor the crimson clover.
@rooftopjaxx Currants out already, very nice and I like to see the phacelia almost as much as the bees do.
My old plot would be full of phacelia flowers already but this one is a lot more shaded in comparison.
Come the summer I think I will be very grateful of that shade.
Lauren
Broadfork
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