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May 2019
Details of what was sown/planted in May
Archive for previous years' diaries dating from 2007 can be accessed by clicking here
This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.
1 - 5 May
Lots of shopping - bought a jasmine and calibrachoa for greenhouse.
Bought trailing plants mecardonia and pericallis
Bought some alpines for small pebble garden arenaria, armeria, delosperma, hypsela, leptinella.
Bought four oesteospernum and a canna
eEt up frost protection for potatoes, strawberries and kiwi Issai
Planted anemone de Caen from pots to new garden bed
Planted new clematis
Transferred skimmia growing in a pot to the garden
Sank pots in between snowdrops and bluebells to provide space for bulbs later
Frost protecting our potatoes - video
6 - 12 May
More shopping - bought for new bed in the garden, two lupins, astrantia, astilbe and leucanthemum
Planted above in the garden and planted alpines
Sweet peas and leeks transferred to cold frame
Cut back the medlar
Annual flower bed beginning to flower
Removed half of overwintered brassicas and cleared the bed
A look around our home greenhouse - video
13 - 19 May
Lots of seed sowing and pricking out in the greenhouse
Finished planting strawberry bed
Sowed carrot and parsnip seeds/
Prepared most beds for planting
Planted sweet peas
Things are hotting up - no not the weather
Birds' eye plot tour - Mid May
Good progress on the allotment - video
Creating a new strawberry bed - video
20 - 26 May
Sowed first lot of hardy annuals
Sowed second batch of peas
Sowed sugar snap peas.
Planted leeks
Planted second lot of brassicas
Back to watering duties
Bought and planted more perennials in new crab apple bed
Repotted banana which was infested by ants
Lots of pricking out and tidying up the greenhouses
Planted out garden greenhouse tomatoes
Picked first flowers from annuals sown last September
Harvested first lot of salads from cold frame area.
Garden revamping - an update - video
27 - 31 May
Bought three more perennials for front garden and allotment
Harvested first two strawberries
Harvesting salads
Watering and weeding on allotment
Planted tomatoes in plot greenhouse
Planted sweet peas in a tub in the garden
Chives are flowering and being browsed by bees
Jazzy potatoes looking sad.
Roses blooming - tried to train Etoile d'Hollande
Clematis flowering
That was a cold one - almost a freeze
A walk around our allotment in late May - video
Packed greenhouse at the end of May - video
A walk around our allotment in late May - video