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Friday 4 November 2016

Cut Flowers.

- Cut Flowers | wellywoman

At first I did grow flowers in raised beds in my back garden, and then when I took on an allotment I decoded to devote two beds on the plot to cut flowers.
Each year I learnt which plants gave me the most flowers, which were easy to grow and which lasted the longest when cut.
Early spring is the best time to start growing cut flowers but there are still plans and projects to be getting on with.
It is sowing biennials in summer or hardy annuals in autumn it is choosing the right plants.

Planning a cutting patch:
- sweet pea
- dahlia
- corn flowers
- love-in-the-mist
They are disappointingly short lived.
But...

Most cut flowers prefer neuteral soil PH7.

Shopping list:
1 dahlia karma choc
2 ammi visnaga
4 Sweet William (dianthus barbarous)
12 Sweet pea (Lathers ordoratus)
30 Narcissus Tate a Tate
2 Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Black Cat'
2 Cosmos bipinnatus 'Candy Stripe”
2 Daucus carota 'Black Knight'
6 biennial stock matthiola flower



Dahlia karma choc


Ammi visnaga.
- Ammi visnaga: 500 seeds - £1.95.
Sarah Raven: Seed-only orders have P&P charged at £2.50.

- Ammi Visnaga | Higgledy Garden: 500 seeds - £1.95
P&P charged First Class post: £2.00 (order £15 is free).


Sweet William (dianthus barbarous)


Sweet pea (Lathers ordoratus)


Narcissus Tate a Tate


Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Black Cat'



Cosmos bipinnatus 'Candy Stripe”
Everything you need to know about cosmos, the flower of 2016 | The Telegraph


2 Daucus carota 'Black Knight'


6 biennial stock matthiola flower
Brompton Mixed:
- Stock 'Dwarf Mixed' (Brompton Stocks) - Perennial & Biennial Seeds - Thompson & Morgan

- Annuals and Bbiennials -

Hardy annuals
Cornflowers,
Larkspur
Opium Poppy
Love-in-the-mist
Scabious
Sun-flowers
Sweet pea

Half hardy annuals
Floss flowers
Cosmos
Blue lace flowers
Black eyed Susan
Statice
Zinnia
Snapdragon

Biennials - Gillyflowers
- Stock flower info indicates there is a type of plant that’s actually named stock flower (commonly called Gillyflower) and botanically called Matthiola incana.
In areas without freezing winters, stock flower info says it may even perform as a perennial.
Stock flowers bloom from spring to summer, offering continuous blooms in the sunny garden when given the right stock plant care.
Growing stock is not a complicated project, but it does require a period of cold. The duration of cold needed as a part of stock plant care is two weeks for early blooming types and 3 weeks or more for late varieties.
the frugal gardener can plant seeds in winter and hope your cold spell lasts long enough. In this type of climate, stock flower info says the plant begins to bloom in late spring. In climates with winter freeze, expect blooms of growing stock plants to appear from late spring to late summer.

Brompton Mixed
Sweet Williams
Honesty
Iceland Poppy
Wallflower

Tubers
- Dahlia plant in early spring into large pots filled with multipurpose compost

Annual fillers
- Ammi
- Wild carrot
- Sweet Rocket
- Spurge
- Greater Quaking grass

Also:
- Gardens: how to grow your own cut flowers | Life and style | The Guardian

- Grow your own cut flower patch - in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian

- Creating a cutting garden - Saga

- Sow long: If you want a beautiful cuttings garden next summer, get those seeds in now | The Independent

- Late Summer & Early Autumn Sowing Of Hardy Annual Flower Seeds.

- The Higgledy Garden Shop | Higgledy Garden: P&P charged First Class post: £2.00 (order £15 is free).

Monday 18 May 2015

RHS Grow for Flavour (Hardback): 9781845339364

RHS Grow for Flavour (Hardback): 9781845339364:

"By following his groundbreaking scientific tips and techniques, your fruit and veg yield will benefit from measurable improvements in flavour and supercharged quality and health value of all your home-grown harvests. Plus, you'll find 36 simple recipes for making the most of your new flavour-packed produce.

Published in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, James Wong's new book, Grow for Flavour, gives you the techniques to maximize flavour while minimizing the effort involved."
...no potatoes, cabbages, onions or cauliflowers but still plenty left to try your hand.

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Sunday 4 August 2013

Caroline Foley. Book.

eating out in Eynsham:
Caroline Foley - New Holland Publishers - 2010
review by Adrian Moyes

You might expect a ‘Sourcebook’ to be a book about sources. This one is, but it’s also much more than that - it’s a source in its own right.

Thursday 20 September 2012

Book. Gifts from the Garden.

Love and a licked spoon: book and blog.
Love and a Licked Spoon is written by Debora Robertson, food writer, editor, passionate home cook and chaotic gardener from north of London.
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Monday 13 August 2012

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Sarah Raven holding a container of harvested forced chicory 'Witloof' and 'Rossa di Treviso'
Photographer Jonathan Buckley.