I had some crazy idea that I would be able to whip the dahlias out and pop in the tulips - in a matter of a few hours!!!! In fact just labelling the dahlias proved to take almost that long. Now I see why people buy expensive metal tags which they leave on plants - permanently. Anyway, I think I sorted them all out. The next thing was to allow time - in the right location - for the worms which refused to be made homeless to decide to wriggle out. Then came the small matter or hanging the tubers upside down for a week to allow them to dry out. Hmmm - makeshift arrangements in the greenhouse took a bit of thinking out but I was glad I hadn't chucked out all the old shelf supports. One greenhouse-length piece of wood balanced on some garden chairs seems to have done the trick!
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| Dahlia tubers drying on make-shift shelf in greenhouse | |
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The first bach of tulip bulbs took longer to plant than expected as some multi-coloured osteospermum I had popped in as colour bedding have suddenly put on a new flush of blooms so I had to carefully dig around them. Another lesson there.
In the greenhouse the winter salad crop and herb seedlings are coming on quite well. Will soon have to decide whether to harvest some as "cress" or just thin out. May experiment with a bit of each.
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| Progress of winter salad crops in growbags in the greenhoue |
The nerines are certainly worth growing. Sicne they are such a shocking colour I may even put in some orange ones for next year. That would be interesting!
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| More crazy nerine shapes - they are so worthwhile - however LOUD! |
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| Last luscious blush of little acer (unnamed seedling from Westonbirt arboretum) |
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