GARDENING

LALESTON GARDENING CLUB

Happy New Year everyone! January! Well here we are again with a worsening Covid situation and we at Laleston Gardening Club have decided that it is best to close our doors once again until the situation improves. You may be tucked up indoors browsing the seed catalogues and dreaming of better days ahead, it’s a good time to plan your garden for the coming season. Seeds can be started off indoors this month for early crops, lettuce, summer cabbage etc. Providing the ground isn’t frozen bare root fruit trees can be started off this month too. If weather permits your veg and seedbeds can be prepared ahead. Please bear in mind that the Gardening Club will be holding its usual Plant Sale in May and this time there will be a separate perennial sale a couple of weeks earlier. Watch our announcements for dates nearer to the time next spring. There will be some new lines this year as well as our usual selection of flowers and veg, so watch this space and our Facebook page too.

Susan Ford

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Roald Dahl once said “If I had my way I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead” Wouldn’t that be lovely! January might be in the middle of winter but as the days lengthen the garden starts to grow. Gardeners are all optimists convinced, every year, that their garden is going to be better than ever (of course it will!) If you’re getting itchy green fingers, sow some ‘Sutton’ broad beans in pots. They can go in a cold frame or unheated greenhouse, no fuss. Put early potatoes to chit, start off some sweet peas, all something to look forward to! Dig over empty beds, the winter weather will break down large clods of earth making it so much easier to work in the spring, add some organic matter, no need to dig it in the worms will do that for you. Think of those extra Christmas pounds dropping off - a free workout! If you have honeysuckle, it’s time to cut it back hard encouraging healthy new growth in the Spring Did you know, honeysuckle is used in herbal pillows (to induce sweet dreams) and makes a fab toy for cats, they love its strong scent!

Chris Early

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