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“Bit late for sowing, isn’t it?”
That is my neighbor, over the fence, watching me tear open seed packets in the middle of July. And every year I give him the exact same answer: late for what, exactly?
Because the calendar is lying to you. April — the month we all sow like mad — offers seeds cold, sulky ground and three weeks of anxious waiting. July hands ...
There’s a cruel little joke the garden plays on us gardeners every year. In June, all abundance – geraniums frothing over the path, catmint humming with bees, poppies blazing away in their scarlet tonalities – and then July arrives, and the whole thing sags like a party at two in the morning… Flopped stems, browning flowers, bare centres, seedheads everywhere. “That’s it, the...
“July is far too hot to propagate plants from cuttings!” Well, for some varieties it is, but not all of them, in fact, for some of our flowering friends it is actually a good month to get more “little ones” for free!
I love cuttings, and it’s not just because my father grew virtually all his garden by snipping off twigs here and there… But it’s part of it.