The cold frame - The Garden's Secret Weapon

August ... Summer is half gone, and it is time to think about perennials, violets, daisies and English Myosotis, the flower in your garden next summer to think about. This is where the frame is available in the cold for sowing seeds in the soil must be carefully prepared so pots in the greenhouse for seed. Dig carefully, use liberal amounts of humus and some 'of the fine sand and rake up and smooth. Sow seeds in rows, shallow, label, cap and water. Maintain the structure covered upGermination begins. Shade.

When the seedlings are large enough to handle, trans-conditioning in homes or land in the frame. Pansies, forget-me-nots and English daisies in the framework should be implemented throughout the winter, so that the area of at least three cm. Perennials can also be done during the winter in the frame or in the garden in early autumn. Plants overwinter in need of a light blanket of hay during the winter months serious. Cow dung organic dry wellburied is one of the safest fertilizers, but no good can be used sparingly.

Sow vegetables this month

August is the time for a garden in the north in a different culture can sneak. Now is the time to put in another crop of lettuce and snap beans, spinach, radishes and carrots. The cores provide not only a fall crop, but saved a winter supply of fresh carrots, which are much better than that. At low to grow until frost. Then cover with a mulch six inches of leaves. Leave them inOn the ground and can dig, fresh carrots, when you need it all winter.

Lettuce from your garden to sell almost until Christmas, when it was late in the month of August and transplanted in a cold frame, when planting large enough to handle comfortably. Protect with a sash and a mat if more bad weather is due.

Strawberries and Iris bulbs are easy to breed. You rank of power, so do not try to grow in poor soils or in competition with hedge or tree roots. You also need the fullThe sunlight. Dig at least eight inches and generous as the one with manure, humus, or both. Add bone meal, too.

August planting pot grown strawberries use. Plant 15 inches over 18 inches apart in rows. Both solid lines are growing, not always a path between plants trampled, or if you have to keep collecting the fruits.