Both print and online seed catalogues often have listings of the year’s new variety introductions.
Dear Helen: In a recent column you mentioned the value of trying new varieties of favourite vegetables and flowers occasionally, for comparison and potential upgrading of plantings from year to year. How do you find and select varieties for comparing with ones you usually grow?I find most “trial” varieties by browsing through seed and garden catalogues as they arrive each year. Print catalogues offer a relaxing, thorough reading.
I have given this variety a short length at an end of both four-metre double rows of peas. So far, on both the early and later April seedings, the Grundy plants are noticeably taller and more robust than Green Arrow. It’s early days yet, but I’ll be monitoring these plantings with interest. Dear Helen: I have daffodils, tulips and hyacinths in three large pots. What shall I do with them after their bloom time? Leave them in their pots? Do I keep watering them?This question arrives in my mail every year as people enjoy the beautiful displays of potted spring flowering bulbs on their patios and decks and begin to wonder how to manage the plants and bulbs after flowering is finished.
One way to manage this stage is to wait until the tops have all dried off and harvest the bulbs for storing in a cool, dark place until planting time in early autumn.
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