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If you have been following my advice over the past few months you will have a healthy
crop of tomato seedlings ready in 100mm (4") pots ready to be planted this week.
Sunny position, no shade and leave some room between the neighbour’s fence and your
nearest plant. Go for it!
Their stunted growth will soon be reversed and your tomatoes will be flowering within
weeks, but do not start feeding them until they produce their first flower.
Since the pesky Dandelions are appearing in lawns, it’s time to get serious about
removing them. I’d just spot spray them with glyphosate, but hand weed them if you
have the stamina. I know some folk who encourage them and include the leaves in salads,
but the way my dog wees on them, I’d rather not thanks!
With the wonderful flush of colour on our annuals at present, it’s easy to forget
the fortnightly feed of water-soluble fertilizer or diluted organic tea. I alternate week
about with vermi-fluids and kelp extract one week followed by water-soluble fertilizer the
following week. The worm activity is exceptional and so are the flowers.
It’s still not to late to feed your daffodils, tulips and freesias after flowering
to encourage large flowers next year. Apply water soluble fertilizer and kelp extract at
the same time, which gives a big nutrient load and keeps them turgid, so that you
don’t get leaf burn. The kelp or seaweed extract as some call it creates a great
buffer for your bulbs to take up the nutrient, when they’d rather be going dormant.
Annie’s Roses need mulching too, so I hope our garden gnome reads this and does the
needful. You see I’m not allowed to mess with the trusty 12 Roses in our garden.
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