THIS is our busiest month, as we are still sowing seeds, pricking out/potting up, harvesting, delivering and—perhaps most importantly—planting.
The annual beds
By now, hopefully all our annual beds have been thoroughly weeded, hoed and raked down ready for the seedlings. We lay two rows of irrigation tape per bed and roll out the pre-burned weed fabric (‘Spring’, March 20). Posts are pounded in every 10ft, but we hold off stretching the netting between them until after planting.
The hardened-off annuals are watered one final time in their pots and planted according to the plan. There’s so much urgency during this time, as we don’t want the plants
