{"id":5111,"date":"2019-03-07T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2019-03-07T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:45:34","slug":"my-patch-a-garden-update-january-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/my-patch-a-garden-update-january-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"My Patch \u2013 A Garden update: January 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know everyone says January is the best time to plan your garden for the year because you are looking at it in is barest form.  I think I have a plan for this year, well I hope I do!  I want to try and expand on last years plans and have more flowers and wildflowers in the garden. I have a plan of growing all the plants in trays to start with as I don’t feel they did very well sowing directly onto the raised bed last year, though I might be proven wrong and end up with no plants at all!  This year I also want to grow sunflowers and rudbeckia again but I might put most of the rudbeckia in pots so they don’t take over the beds which aren’t really wide enough.  I plan to have lots more pots in general so I can distribute more flowers to different areas of the garden patio and overall increase the number of plants for the insects.  Again this is all going to be trial and error and I will be making notes as I go so I can adjust next years plan to be more effective again.  <\/p>\n

January 1st – I potted on some of the sweet williams into larger pots as they are growing well. <\/p>\n

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January 11th – one of the snowdrops is flowering in the garden \ud83d\ude42 the rest are still really just emerging.  The one which is in flower wasn’t moved last April so I guess it is more established than the rest.  The first batch of daffodils I planted in pots are starting to show and the Cuckoo pint has just started to come through.  <\/p>\n

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January 18th – I cut back the leaves of the hellebore as I heard on ‘The Garden Log’ podcast<\/a> that he had been cutting his back.  I like to listen to it when I’m at work as it brightens up my day \ud83d\ude42 I also started to prune one of the climbing roses which is on the shed, it still needs a bit more work done to it and also needs to be tied back into the wall, though I need to attach more wire to the wall first.  I hope with the roses having a bit more attention this year they will cover the wall more effectively.  <\/p>\n

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January 31st – As the weather forecast had predicted snow I decided it would be wise to move all the pots I had in the garden into the glasshouse for a little protection.  I’ve not dealt with snow and plants before so everything that was small enough to be moved was!  I think they all appreciated it! <\/p>\n

Compost Bin – it is slowly starting to look a little like compost at the bottom but I have figured out it isn’t being turned often enough.  Part of the problem is I can put the fork down into the bin, I am just too short to be able to actually turn it!  I always have to ask for help!  It was being turned once a week, it was upped half way through the month to twice a week but I think really it should be being turned each day!  A lot of vegetable peelings are added each week, I’m actually thinking of getting another bin so new matter can be put in a separately bin to allow the current one break down fully.  <\/p>\n

I am looking forward to next month as it starts to become lighter and I can start to spend short amounts of time after work in the garden – the lists of tasks to complete is growing daily! <\/p>\n

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