With spring time just about to start I am getting ready for spring to start in the garden. This will be the first year that I have really had a garden to make nice. Last year we spent the whole time getting it ready, putting down a new lawn, getting rid of all the rubble/sand and building a few raised beds. Now it is time to reap the rewards, we are planning to grow loads of different vegetables and fruit.
Not knowing much about gardening I have just discovered summer bulbs. I thought bulbs were just for giving colour in the spring time with all the daffodils. Now in the shops there are loads of different bulbs to give your garden colour in the summer. I have been good so far and have only brought 4 packs of them, but I want to pack my garden full. I am just waiting to plant them now, it seems to snow nearly every week at the moment so I don’t think its the right time yet.
We still have quite a big shopping list for the garden (30 metres of fencing, a shed and green house) and on a limited budget we are not going to get very far. Hopefully we are going to get a small cheap green house from B&M. It only costs £15 and stand just over waist height but should be good for tomatoes and chillies.
I think this year should be good, we learnt a lot from last year (you learn a lot from failure) so hopefully this year we will be able to have courgettes, peppers, pea, beans, carrots, pumpkins and even watermelons. We will be using the book from Carol Klein from Gardeners world so hopefully everything will turn out OK.