Vegetable Garden Under Snow
This is one reason why you should never invite celebs around to help with the weeding. I’ve not seen it snow this heavy in many a year. Thankfully, the veggies in the garden should be able to withstand it. The chamomile lawn won’t, I suspect, be quite so lucky.
Chamomile Lawn Under Snow
And just in: My garlic patch suffered an avalanche from the greenhouse roof and is now flattened and buried beneath a pile of the white stuff. It had only just recovered from an earlier attack by the resident canis lupus labradorus who shares its name, and who, coincidentally, didn’t appreciate the snow:
Did you know that a snowstorm can drop forty million tons of snow, and carry the equivalent energy of 120 atom bombs? Well you do now.
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RB,
Please excuse me, I am a horticultural ignoramus. What is a Chamomile Lawn?
Would you also be able to tell me what the usual process is for planting bulbs and what time of year one should expect them to begin emerging?
With many thanks,
TFC
A chamomile lawn is just a lawn made from chamomile plants instead of grass. They look, smell, and taste much better than normal lawns, and require less mowing – the clippings have a multitude of uses. On the downside they’re difficult to grow.
Bulbs – hmmm. Tricky one that as it depends on the flower. I just poke a dibber in to a depth of about three times the size of the bulb and then drop the bulb in and backfill with soil. Sometimes I plant deeper (e.g. snowdrops and bluebells), other times shallower (e.g. crocus corms). I then top it off with a sprinkling of fertilizer on the surface (except for lilies) . Spring bulbs should be coming through by now, summer bulbs are usually through by May/June, but it depends on when they were originally planted and the soil conditions.
Lol, Garlic getting freaked!