The listing homes and gardens june 2014

HOMES & GARDENS

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The Listing Garden Design and Planting, June 2014

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Plotting a Vegetable Garden Even the smallest garden can find space to grow vegetables. Start now and you can enjoy delicious homegrown salads all summer long.

Producing useful quantities of your own vegetables doesn’t take up as much space as you might imagine.

There’s a lot you can plant out or grow from seed right now that will give you some super-tasty, succulent, and top-quality salads in just a few weeks’ time. And salad leaves grown in ornamental pots can be as decorative as they are nutritious.

Before you get sowing or planting, choose the right containers. Big ones are easier to maintain than small ones; and of course bigger pots mean more produce. Go for something of at least 30cm (12in) in diameter, larger if possible.

As salad crops tend to be pretty short-term there’s no need to spend a fortune on compost. Ideally choose a good-quality multi-purpose compost, but you can get perfectly acceptable results with the contents of a growing-bag. I find the quality of the compost in these isn’t all that brilliant, but for the time you need it – and provided you keep it well-fertilised – it’ll be adequate.

If you grow your own salad leaves you can get precisely the mix you like best. There are plenty of eye-catching lettuces such as the frilly Lollo, either a gorgeous bright-green standard Lollo a burgundy-tinged Lollo Rosso or a mixture of both. Treat them as cut-andcome-again crops, snipping off the leaves as you want them but not cutting into to the base, then they’ll put out new shoots and keep cropping for longer.

Baby beet leaves are a popular salad ingredient, too.

Choose a variety like Bull’s Blood for the prettiest leaves or grow any of the standard varieties, and you’ll also get a great-tasting root crop later on. I generally harvest the young leaves a few at a time but let the plant produce a root too.

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There are still plenty of tomato plants in the shops now, but hunt carefully to find the ones that are still in top condition. If you choose an outdoor variety it can be grown in a pot on its own, and if you have a big enough container you can grow some other salad ingredients around the edge of the container.

If you’re after some fire in your cooking, a chilli pepper thrives in a pot in a warm and very sheltered spot as do sweet peppers.

Fresh herbs can make a salad more interesting too. Choose your favourites and either grow them in a dedicated herb pot with extra grit in the compost for good drainage, or even consider popping a few in with your main crops.

Vegetables, like most plants, do best in a relatively warm spot with plenty of sun, so site your containers carefully. You want them to be easily accessible from the kitchen, but it’s more important to ensure they’re sheltered from the wind yet still get enough sun.

You may prefer to raise some of your crops in pots and grow them on a bit before planting them out. The garden containers will always be full and looking their best, even while you’re harvesting them. The new plantings will very quickly blend in with the old, and all summer long you’ll have a garden that’s as pleasing to the eye as it is to the tastebuds.

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In the garden... June Top tips and ideas to improve your garden!

Sunshine always brings us into the garden and makes us feel good. Here I will suggest ways to make improvements to your outdoor spaces to make them more enjoyable.

1. Barbeque Season With the good weather we love to enjoy eating and entertaining outside. Make sure that your patio area is large enough to incorporate the barbeque and the table and chairs for your friends. The classic mistake is to make the patio just a bit larger than the size of the table, but remember to allow enough space to push the chairs in and out.

2. Watering As the temperatures rise you will need to be watering the garden. Established planting can tolerate less water, but newly planted areas, hanging baskets, newly laid turf and vegetable plots will all need water. I like to water early in the morning or late afternoon when the temperature is dropping and there is less evaporation. The more high tech gardeners may consider timing devices that allow for automated watering. This is especially helpful if you are away on holiday. If you don’t already have a water butt, consider getting one!

Alfred Carriere’ over my 3. Transparency Planting up the garden is not all about cottage door that looks (and large shrubs and dense enclosure of space. smells) great at this time of year.

5. Filler planting I love to use flowers and grasses that The best planned planting schemes have offer transparency in the planting. Plants such as Verbena bonariensis, Miscanthus periods when you are waiting for the next flowers to arrive. My top tip to extend the ‘Marlepartus’, Foeniculum vulgare ‘Giant Bronze’, Molinia caerulea ‘Transparent’ and flowering period in the border is to have Knautia macedonica give flower and foliage annuals growing in reserve in pots to fill the gaps and extend the flowering. I love interest without the density of a shrub.

Herbaceous perennials and grasses provide to use Cosmos , nigella, Godetia ‘Grace summer colour in the garden and always Mixed’ and Ammi majus. There is always a vast choice at the garden centre, but why appear in my garden designs. not buy a few packets of seed instead?!

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Wash window frames, soffits and fascia boards to remove any grime.

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