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(25-09-2021, 03:21 PM)JJB Wrote: I've chopped down all the brown in the flower bed this morning and feel the need to move phlox, crocosmia, pinks and day lillies to better places so they're not so intermingled. I've resolved to sow beans, peas, courgettes and corn in two batches to extend the growing season. I've found several bags of 2 yr old shreddings/leaves which have formed lovely mulch which will go into the borders of gh2 when I remove the toms to improve the soil.
There that's a start
As for what, or what not, to grow next year, the list changes with my mood.
Definitely no chillies! I've enough in the freezer to last a lifetime and greenfly were a pain in the proverbial. Probably not bothering with aubergines. Might give peppers another go but the yield doesn't warrant the bother, we eat so many I still have to buy loads. Not growing quite so many varieties of beans, stick to CFB Hunter, Fasold for early ones and one other probably Lidls, perhaps with drying beans up elsewhere to plant and forget. Bijou MT and maybe some Sugar Bon or Oregon Sugar Pod. Stagger sowing of cucs and not grow so many. Try to convince P to let me have the old climbing frame for a tromba growing frame, at present it's at the top of the garden and he sits on the top of it in the sun to catch his breath and cool off after grass cutting. Might not succeed there
Try and put some thought into the flower border, at present it's very haphazard, but I'm useless at it, so might fail.
Gardening is an excuse not to do housework
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