Friday I took a couple of hours before a meeting to cut down the Hydrangea’ spent flowers that I didn’t have time to cut in February when I cut back grasses, perennials and roses.
Among the Pennisetum cuttings that I left on the ground the decorative alliums, irish onions and botanical tulips were showing their green spikes. For Easter I hope to see some of them blooming. In April I’ll have one week off work and I’ll apply to every plant a good handful of blood and bones to have a good start. I’ll prepare also the ground of the vegetable plot that in winter I have well manured. I have not decide yet what to plant apart tomatoes (two or three varieties) cucumbers, onions and salad. This incoming week will be crucial for these decisions. Any suggestions?
Posted by kilbournegrove on March 7, 2010 at 2:20 pm
I do not grow many other vegetables, than the ones you mentioned, but I do also grow lots of different herbs. I also like to grow beets, picking the tops for salad , and I can harvest them when they are really tiny, I find them more tender then.
Posted by andrea on March 8, 2010 at 4:49 pm
we too grow many different herbs mainly in the terrace because so they are more at hand. We even grow salad in pots so slugs don’t eat it right away. I prefer that instead of putting poison all around. So cats, porcupines and birds do not suffer any damage. The herbs we grow are: rosemary, thime, sage (salvia officinalis and salvia bicolor), wild fennel, laurel, allium schoenoprasum, melissa, mentha, nepeta, ruta.
Posted by Deborah Elliott on March 8, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I think your vegetable garden sounds delicious! Your garden is so lovely. I have enjoyed looking through your site to see its progress. Wonderful! It must bring a lot of pleasure to you. I found my way to your blog through blotanical, and I look forward to your future posts.
Posted by andrea on March 8, 2010 at 4:39 pm
thanks deborah for your nice words and appreciation! In fact it brings me a lot of pleasures, sometimes a litle discomfort when things don’t go in the way I would have liked them to go, but you have to follow the tide of nature and assecondate its will….and be patient. I’ll hope to post sooon news from my venice garden.
Posted by Dirty Girl Gardening on March 10, 2010 at 7:45 am
I just posted a pic from my Venice trip a while ago… I’m very jealous you get to garden in Venice.
Posted by andrea on March 10, 2010 at 11:17 am
If you ever come back to venice, you are welcome in my garden! Nice logo in your blog.