It’s already the fifth month of the year, and it’s perhaps time to take a look back at some of those gardening goals you made for 2023! But one thing we always hear from the gardening community is never to be disheartened by what you couldn’t achieve when it comes to growing! A lot of the time, gardening and growing your own is about learning from experiences. But it might be worthwhile to make a note of what worked and what didn’t, so that you can use it for later!
With summer not too far away now (hopefully!), if you’re looking for something to do in your garden over the next few weeks, here are a few of our suggestions:
While hopefully all risk of frost has passed, watch out for late frost and look for tender plants that need protection. Spring frost can damage tender young plants, blossoms, and young fruits. Move tender pots to sheltered spaces or a greenhouse if possible, and if not, use some form of protective cover. Mulching the root area of some of the plants with our natural and biodegradable coir chips or mulch mats can also help.
You can also plant out summer bedding towards the end of the month. You can choose from a variety of hardy annuals, hardy perennials, or bulbs. Plant out tender annuals like sunflowers, cosmos, and nasturtiums.
Check on how your plants are doing. Remove any faded spring bedding. Check on the water levels of your plants. Remember to water thirsty plants regularly, but check on the soil first. Also, check houseplants for pests.
You might also need to repot houseplants that have become top heavy. With our natural CoirProducts coir pots, there is no transplanting shock when repotting, as roots grow through the pot, and you can simply reposition the pot with the plant in a larger one. And if you want to position them on the ground later, they are biodegradable, and decompose into the soil later on.
In the greenhouse, with the changing weather, you can keep doors and vents open on warmer days but remember to close them in the night as it can still get a bit cold
Earth up potatoes, covering the shoots with soil. Check on your tomatoes, it may be time to transplant them into larger coir pots and give them a vertical support like with our CoirProducts growpoles.
If you are looking for something to sow, you can sow sweet corn in deep coir pots and transplant them into the garden next month. Dwarf and climbing French beans and runner beans can be sown directly outdoors if the weather stays good. You can also sow batches of salad leaves often so there is continuous picking!
And it’s always worthwhile to check on the health of your garden too – mow laws if necessary, give your ponds a clean, removing any algae or other unwanted items, and see what you can recycle! Lawns will, no doubt, be loving the sunshine!
CoirProducts’ newly introduced all-purpose coir potting mix, Coir Plus, not only brings you thesustainable goodness of coir, but also comes enriched with NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus,
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