Gardeners’ World

After the recent rain and warm weather annuals such as cosmos, asters and tagetes are flowering well, adding late colour to gardens. Deadhead where possible to keep them flowering and prevent them setting seed.

The rain at the end of July will have done much good, but it has spoilt the roses that are flowering now, so I give them a light prune, a feed of Fish, Blood and Bone and hopefully in a few weeks time they will have a second crop of flowers.

After a very dry month, at last a drop of rain, although we need more. Some plants have done well and the roses have been spectacular with more flowers than usual, although they haven’t lasted long in the heat.

At last the warm weather is here and the gardens are growing almost too fast. Plants are very vigorous and it looks like a good year for peonies; mine have never been so tall!

Spring is finally here, although good gardening weather changes from day to day.

How good to see the snowdrops, aconites, crocus and early daffodils, spring is just around the corner and the village green is looking lovely!

Slight frosts have turned dahlia foliage black and it is time to cut them down.

GQT – Many thanks from Scruton Allotments to everyone who supported our Gardeners’ Question Time, we raised over £200!

In the farming game, the snakes are more numerous and the ladders are getting shorter. Government policies are changing fast and are less predictable.