Garden Bloggers' Blooms Day: 'Just Add Cream'
Veg Plotting 's Blooms Day would be incomplete without the occasional foray into Grow Your Own flowers, so I'm pleased to bring you my 'Just Add Cream' strawberry plants for this month's floral focus. This is a relatively new variety from Thompson & Morgan 's own breeding programme, who also provided me with a few plants to try in 2017. Naturally I've given them a tough time by forgetting them entirely deliberately growing them on in the smallest of trays for a year before I finally planted them out. I'm pleased to say they've passed this test with flying colours. I'm growing these at home instead of on the allotment where VP Gardens demands food plants look attractive as well as being productive. Apparently pink flowered strawberries have proved rather bland and unproductive in the past, but this variety is bucking those particular trends. It's an everbearer strawberry which means the crop is spread over many months in the su
Cheerful! (If I tried to do something like that, the pegs would have fallen off in no time!)
ReplyDeleteVery artistic :)
ReplyDeleteI use just plain ones to close the tops of bags, but aren't colored ones so much prettier!
ReplyDeleteHappy Gardening!
Lea
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Lucy - thank you - cheerful was my intention :)
ReplyDeleteGaz - ;) Thanks for following :)
Lea - we do that too - much cheaper than buying the bag clips!
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ReplyDeleteJan says:
They look all rustic and lovely! Such nice block colours.
Thanks Jan!
DeleteI use pegs for all sorts of things around the garden but never thought to use them to close seed packets. What a good idea!
ReplyDeletehi - guess what? just got an email confirmation from RHS - I've got a press pass for Chelsea :-)I hope you got one too x Amanda x
ReplyDeletePeg....most useful around the garden, except the ones which blow of the line and into the awkward to get corners :)
ReplyDeleteA very arty Wordless Wednesday!
Margaret - these are teeny tiny pegs I picked up in a craft shop. I wish I'd bought more of them!
ReplyDeleteAmanda - That's fantastic news :) I'm still crossing my fingers for one!
Angie - you're right - they're used for a million and one things here :)