Starting to think about Autumn planting?
With summer almost over its time to start thinking about autumn planting. Preparing garden beds and sourcing new and interesting plants. There is still a number of plants looking good in the nursery despite the heat and lack of any rain. Our website will soon be updated with a number of new and returning to stock plants, including some from our new edible plant range which is growing well.
Plants still looking good from our current catalogue include:-
Strawberries including yellow, white and red heirloom varieties;
Salsify;
Perennial onions including Ever Ready, Bunching, Egyptian and Chinese;
Yacon;
Skirret;
Lobelia siphilitica;
Cock's Foot Grass - growing well and providing excellent green forage for pets and livestock;
Sculpit;
Sea Campion;
Par-Cel:
Leaf Celery;
Mitsuba.
New plants being added soon:-
Banana Mint;
Arabian Mint;
Samphire;
Juniper Berry- self fertile;
Betony- white flower;
Chinese Potato;
Lobelia siphilitica alba;
Blue bugle;
Sea Celery;
Makua;
Rampion.
Returning to stock plants include:-
Lovage;
Skirret;
Perennial Leek;
Greek perennial basil.
I really enjoy growing herbs and edible plants, but I am also very interested in the history and folklore of plants. I find it fascinating learning about historical uses and folklore of plants. So I thought I might include with each blog's ending an interesting piece of folklore about a plant I sell.
This weeks - According to folklore eating leeks in spring will ensure good luck for the rest of the year!
