This cold snap is set to continue but there are things that I can do inside, like ‘chit’ my seed potatoes and even sow some salad onions and hardy lettuce under cover, and of course, sort out my seed packets ready for planting. I shall leave you with a gorgeous photo of cow parsley in the snow!

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I have also been utilising old work boots and planting succulents in them, they grow really well in them. The lovely old watering cans get planted up too, a really good way to use up ones with holes in the bottom!

The winter garden is looking bleak but I did leave lots of seed heads on the plants and didn’t cut away anything really and it is a joy to see the local birds pecking at them and finding the bugs hibernating amongst them, really glad I left it untouched now.

Till next timex

I make two sizes of wreaths. The large wreath is £30 and the small wreath is £20.

I shall add more photos of all the different types of wreaths as I make them. They are also available at ‘Cushions & Veils’ shop in Cobblestone Walk, Steyning, West Sussex

Till next time

Lucy

OOOOhhhh, good ole Halloween is upon us again, carve out all those lovely pumpkins! I colllect some of the seeds for next year, I just dry them out on some kitchen towel and then put them in a little envelope in a cool/dry place till next spring, I always manage to get some to germinate. I love carving pumpkins, sometimes I use a stencil, but this year I made it up a bit.

I have noticed that the leaves on the trees have all of  a sudden changed colour. They were green for ages and then they just changed within a week, I wonder if they will also drop quickly. My work, at the moment is consisting mainly of sweeping up leaves and debris, I sometimes wish the leaves would just drop all in one go, then the sweeping up would be all over and done with.

Now is the time to really tidy up the garden and tuck it in for winter. The runner and climbing beans can be cut down, but leave the roots in as the nodules on the roots will fix nitrogen in the soil. Remove all dead foliage and leaves off the borders, if left it will encourage pests and disease. Any standing upright perennials like ornamental grasses can be left for hibernating insects and they will look nice with the frost on them.

Happy Halloween

Lucys Gardens

One of the most important jobs in late autumn is to prune the roses so they do not rock in the winter winds. Cut them to third of their size, taking out crossing and diseased branches. They will need another prune in the very early spring.

Right I off to plan my seed planting for spring already!

Blimey, what a scorcher today was, and the hot weather is to continue for the rest of the week I hear.

Now is the time to purchase your spring flowering bulbs and get them planted in – right through October as well. Alliums are great for the spring garden, and you can just leave them in afterwards as well and they will multiply. I will be planting some more tulips again, I really tend to go for the dark crimsons, magenta, and apricot colours, they work so well together.

Other bulbs to put in now are onion/shallot sets and garlic. I always grow mine over winter, they are great to just leave in and cover the ground during the winter months, Leeks are also good to put in now- they break up clay soils and again keep the ground covered. I have also put in some winter broccoli, and have autumn potatoes in big pots, so I can bring them into the greenhouse during the frosts.

I have been really hard at work recently, everyones lawns are growing at a mad rate! Soon those leaves will be falling and I will be sweeping, sweeping, sweeping!!

Till next time

Lucy@ Lucys Gardens