Seed and Turf

The weather has been ideal for laying truf and seeding the lawn. It was late in the season when the landscaping was carried out last August and when I seeded the lawn in September I knew that some areas would need attention come Spring. As the weather has been so good this was the obvious time to get to work.

Turfing provides a kind of instant gratification. From patchy, hardened mud the laying of a few lengths of turf transforms the lawn into Wembley Stadium! For the remaining patches I seeded the ground having prepared a seed bed by some vigourous raking.

Talking of seed, I sowed the very first crops in the new vegetable garden sowing Carrots (Autumn Gold) and some mixed salad - Red Russian Kale, Rocket, Chervil, Lizuna and Tatsoi. Then finished off with some Lollo Rosso Lettuce. In 3 inch pots I sowed Tomato 'Gardener's Delight' which went straight in a cold frame.

Interestingly I had some free seed packets I had accumulated in recent months and so these were sown the central round bed. They included Love-in-the-Mist, Bupleurum Rotundifolium, Black Hollyhock and Ammi Majus (Bishops Flower). The Bronze Fennel was sowed in a corner of the main herbaceous bed while in the opposite corner went Linum 'Blue Saphyr'.

After all the work sowing seeds this weekend let's hope they germinate okay!