SixOnSaturday

Undeniably autumn now , is n’t it ? Cooler , darker , wetting agent . No frost yet though , so the garden is still looking quite near , if a small rained on . My gardening activities this weekend will be clip by the Oxford Half Marathon which is on Sunday dayspring . Much to my family ’s entertainment / concern for my genial health , I have sign up for a full battle of Marathon in the spring , and to top that , a 100 km extremist - marathon next September . Suffice to say , I will be run a circle and garden a bit less next year . I ’m consume just thinking about it .

Time for Six on Saturday – six thing , in the garden , on a Saturday . Could be anything , a cock , a flower , a beastie , a harvest time , a architectural plan , a job done , anything at all . connect in !

Here are my Six for this hebdomad .

1 – No sets please , we ’re British . Having hear and fail to develop onion from germ a couple of times , I ’m giving it up as a bad job and going back to sets . These are all autumn planting set . Three lots of onions – electric , shenshyuandautumn champion . I am also hear some shallots for the first meter , these arelongor .

2 – Phlox panniculata ‘ grey lady ’ . I grow this flora as one of several tribulation plants for the Hardy Plant Society Conservation Scheme . The idea is that undecomposed plants that are settle out of circulation are develop more widely , hear out for generation , conditions , facet and so on , with the eventual hope that they are then uncommitted in more glasshouse to bribe . As well as being cute , these heyday have a tremendous fragrance . This is a small plant so I ’ll need to seek to produce it on first .

3 – Sweet pea plant seeds – it ’s that time of class again . Whilst fresh pea can be sown in the outflow , the hypothesis is that autumn sown plants grow bushier and thus have more florescence fore and thus more flowers . Last year I left my seedling out in the frigid frame which did not end well . On planting in the leap they were very bedraggled . I compounded the problem by split the small plants , manifestly they do n’t appreciate ancestor upset . Despite all that they did finally grow and flower , albeit sporadically , enough to set seeds deserving collect . This class then , I will be inseminate those assorted collected semen , plus leftovers in old mailboat . They will go two seeds per root word - trainer faculty , then I will leave them in the greenhouse . It is a somewhat more sheltered spot but still cool , I do n’t heat it .

4 – Aster frikartii ‘ Mönch ’ . I ’d forgotten all about this plant . It has been growing in stealth mode , hide by an overweaning salvia hot - lips and some nearby echinops . In a recent bid for freedom it has flopped ahead , gasping for light , onto the lawn . A pretty display it does not make , but the flush are gracious . I need to move it , it ’s supposedly one of the best garden plant life evs .

5 – wintertime squash ‘ tip prince ’ . These two medium size squash are the paltry results of an intact season of rise in an entire raise layer . I was expecting several from each flora , in the end I got one from each . I am coming to realise that my niche vegetable plot is just not sunny enough , but also I almost certainly did n’t water or feast the plants sufficiently . Still , these should be enough for a gracious soup , or perhaps roast .

6 – Aster ‘ Star of Chester ’ . This plant was leave out in action mechanism , presume collapsed under pelting violation , but I receive it lurking in an unexpected place . It obviously had collapse but is still gamely kick in to the fall interest in my garden . It should be a marvellous , sturdy works , getting to 5′. Poorly stick out , I ’m afraid . Guilty as charged yer ‘ oner .

Have a fabulous horticulture weekend , I hope you get more done than I will ! Do n’t leave to check over back in later on as more link get add together during the day .

I ’ll be back next weekend with another # SixOnSaturday .

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