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Roses should be really starting to move with
fresh growth after spring rain and mild days, so it's time to start feeding them with
water soluble fertilisers, rich in potassium. Any of the special Rose fertilisers are
excellent and any of the others are acceptable. Apply
enriched organic pellets to your perennials now, but the soil is still too cold to be
mulching with pea straw, Lucerne chaff or any of the other shredded mulches.
Soft perennials that are bolting due to the all the rain,
need to be tip pruned or the caterpillars will just make 'Maggie's meat' of them.
Flowering Prunus should now be pruned when they finish
flowering, that’s when it is the time to shape the trees if you need to, but pick a
sunny day or they will weep at the cuts.
So much seed to go in at the moment and all this rain it's
enough to try spot sowing some annuals, that germinate so freely, such as Nigellia
'Persian Jewels', "Blue Cornflower", "Linum Scarlet Flax", Marigolds
and Lettuce. |
