Official Gardening Thread
So. This year I'm abandoning all veggies except potatoes and garlic. When I was in the UK in January, I picked up Highland Burgundy Red and Pink Fur Apple seed potatoes as well as a Solent Wight garlic bulb. Honestly, it was hard to choose what kind of seed potato to pick because there had to be over 50 varieties.
I was just in the garden store locally. There are only 3 types of seed potatoes. Mushy, medium, and hard potatoes (one for mash, one for salads, one for boiling). It's absolutely amazing how a country obsessed with spuds only have 3 types (in stores too).
I'm really hoping the 2 I brought back from the UK grow ok, should since the climate is about the same here as where I purchased them. My only worry is I'll be in the states for about 3 weeks in May and I'll have to trust the other half to make sure they get water if it's warm and not rainy.
I pulled up the strawberries and planted a few good looking crowns in a big barrel and threw the rest in the compost. They're getting on in age anyways...and I had to make room for the garlic and 10 seed potatoes somewhere!
I'll also get some more herbs in the ground and see if I can't get them to the point of my rosemary, tarragon, mint and catnip. I may plant some more lavender on the sunny side of the garden since I'm slowly trying to get some annuals in there so I don't have to plant much.
In the front of my house I'm going to pull up some tiles and make a little raised bed for the morning glory so it can climb up this ugly grey thing built onto our house to hide it.
That's about it. I know we have quite a few gardeners...what's your plans?
