A Fight Against The Weather
Our typical weather here in the UK is rain, there is nothing more exciting for a gardener than to see a little bit of sun shine, today we got to see just that, it was a glimpse, a fraction of a second, but enough for me to run out side with my spade and rake.
The crazy thing about this is following the sunshine rain started once again, now normally I would jump in the greenhouse and sow some seeds, tidy up or even water the plants, but I had already done all that first thing this morning and there is only so much of that you can do.
With every shelf in the greenhouse full, either with trays of seedlings or trays of dirt I knew that I had to start prepping the soil for the soon to be plant filled garden that I had in mind.
I knew what I had to do, and with rain running down my face and back I pushed my spade into the sludgy soil and started to turn it, adding some organic compost to it to add some food for my plants.
The rain eased off a little and one of my neighbours came out to see what I was doing, he asked me why I had sown trays of cornflowers, and why I had not sown them straight to the soil.
"A jump on the growing season" I said.
My neighbour who is now in his late 60's a former flower farmer, told me he thought it was funny that I was sowing this certain plant in trays, he explained to me that no matter the weather, these seeds would grow, and grow fast in the UK.
He gave me some advice and before I knew it I was adding my seedlings straight to the soil.
I felt strange doing this, as this is something that when I was reading my books they all said the same. start in doors under cover 6 weeks before the last frost date.
I decided to listen to the old man, and trial some of the seedling out side in the ground, I did however leave some in the greenhouse just to make sure that if he was wrong I had some to fall back on.
With the dirt down the centre of my middle flower bed I added the compost and started to add the seedlings. rain again, this time the rain came down heavy and stopped me in my tracks.
I only had one chance to grab a photo of my daffodils when the sun popped out once again, but this time I decided I was beat, and made my way to the house.
I really couldn't do any more, I was wet, cold and tired, but like they say there is always tomorrow.
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"Our typical weather here in the UK is rain, there is nothing more exciting for a gardener than to see a little bit of sun shine"
That feels like a distant memory now. Since moving to South Australia this sentence has turned on its head! Now there is nothing more exciting than to see a bit of rain; or even a LOT of rain, if it's summer!
That should be interesting to see how the cornflowers grow. My lax gardening methods have meant that I'm beginning to find that seeds are very intuitive. They don't always follow the rules that the gardeners handbooks lay out. In recent years most of the plants I have success with are often volunteers.