Help Me Choose: Which Strawberries Should I Grow?
Good day to you all, The Easter bank holiday is still a favourite time here at CQGardens . The weather is improving, slowly and the crocuses and Daffodils are making way for apple blossom...
I’ve got a bad case of planter's thumb!
So busy at the moment in the "seed sowing/potting on" department here at CQ HQ!
I've been madly washing out plastic containers. I mostly use things that have contained blueberries or raspberries, sometimes they don’t have holes in the bottom though so I have to do this myself, either by putting said container on a piece of wood and banging a nail in several times or heating up a skewer and melting a hole in the bottom, I don’t recommend this though as it can be a bit hit and miss. Some of the containers already have holes in the bottom which is great.
I use a seed compost, peat free of course and because chillis, peppers and aubergines have to be started so early and as my greenhouse is unheated, these have all been brought into the kitchen and I've put them above a radiator on a window sill. I am pleased to say that almost everything has come up! Over the next few weeks I will be pricking out and potting on, please join me in the green house on Instagram @cqgardens or on FB - CQ gardens.
Thanks my followers I’ve had lots of good advice about which strawberries to grow, they are in my greenhouse and I shall be planting up this week.
The rest of the garden has a real feel of spring about it, despite the fact that we've only had a couple of days of sunshine. The daffodils are going over but the blossom is out on the ornamental cherry and the fruit trees are coming into leaf.
I hope this finds you well, dry and full of chocolate!
Please do let me know how you're getting on with your plants, be they in 40 acres of land, on a balcony, on a window sill or in your mind’s eye.
Lots of love
Caroline
xx
33 comments
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Linda Ware on
Love watching your garden journey.I have just had an op on my rotator cuff so impatient to get out in mine.
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Linda Ware on
Love watching your garden journey.I have just had an op on my rotator cuff so impatient to get out in mine.
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Jeanette Young on
Lovely to watch your progress. I to have been busy in the greenhouse planting seeds. I need to prepare the ground in it for my cucumber, tomato and melon plants.
The couple of days of sunshine was a welcome break from the cold wind and rain.
Happy gardening
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Jeanette Young on
Lovely to watch your progress. I to have been busy in the greenhouse planting seeds. I need to prepare the ground in it for my cucumber, tomato and melon plants.
The couple of days of sunshine was a welcome break from the cold wind and rain.
Happy gardening
Love
Jeanette
Enjoy my garden during the Easter holidays back to work on Monday. Finding some of the compost a bit hit and miss from different shops. 8 and sure it is effecting some of my seed germination and even some of my brought plug plants. So not completely happy but found the same last year, some of the compost is like dust or really heavy. Happy gardening 👩🌾 lovely lady x