Trough renovations

I finally got round (only a few years late) to emptying out my 'wildflower trough' so that I could bore holes in the bottom of it with a heated skewer to provide some drainage and shan't need to tip it up to empty out the standing water after every thunderstorm! Nothing has been thriving in there this year, with the corn-marigolds in particular looking deformed and failing to flower at all -- I had assumed that it was all horribly pot-bound, but in fact there didn't seem to be that many roots in there and quite a lot of free soil. I emptied the whole lot out anyway, although 'out' just means 'into another old compost sack', so it will get reused at some point in the future when it will, I hope, have rotted down a bit.( Read more... )

( Pak choi and nasturtiums )

The tomatoes have now reached the mystical 'second truss' stage after which I am allowed to apply the specialist tomato fertiliser :-)