Spring Garden Fever

 

Some of my tomatoes and cleome. Thankful for my little greenhouse.

Spring has sprung in our neck of the woods and I am mad to to get at the perennial garden, mad to plant pots, mad to germinate more seeds ..... well you get the idea. I have been watching Gardeners World Videos and Monty Don is so inspiring and full of great ideas that we can certainly use wherever we live, but I can't help but envy the UK climate and try to jump the gun to get things started early!

I know ...... patience grasshopper! I've been tidying up my perennial beds, trying not to be too aggressive for fear of disturbing slow emerging treasures. Pansies have been potted on the deck and the tulips that I layered in a pot last fall are doing great. I know that it will be weeks before frost sensitive plants can be left out so I am making do with filling a few containers with chives, lady's mantle, lungwort, big root geranium etc. just to get some greenery around and fill up space until it's safe to switch them out for summer colour.

My seed trays have been overflowing and I have an abundance of tomato plants and cleome (those big pink flowers that the deer do not destroy!). I can't wait to sow cosmos, zinnias and bachelor buttons, not to mention the veggies that will go in my plot at the community garden. But they will have to wait until the last full moon in June! 

Check out this great video by Carol Klein.

Carol Klein - Planting from Seed