Suggested planting list for next week...

Deal Station Gardening Group

Spring/Summer Planting Plan 2014

 

We wanted to maximise visual impact as well as illustrate some basic veg planting techniques (drought, companion planting).  Plants have been chosen for colour, hardiness and mixed heights.

 

A common theme in all the planters will be the planting of wild flowers to grow up amongst the veg.  Red poppies, white oxeye daisies and corncockles in remembrance of the start of the Great War. 

 

 

Ramsgate Platform

X2 new long thing planters

Fennel

Red Valerian

Trailing rosemary

Lavender

Purple Sage

Teasels

- will need a water retentive mulch, bark chips or broken sea shells maybe

 

London Platform

Planters 1 & 2 (country end)

Broad Beans  - existing and new sowings

French bean – seedlings, started in greenhouses

Rainbow chard  - planted in blocks

Beetroot – planted in blocks

 

 

Planter 3  (by the gate)

Rhubarb – already in situ

Strawberries – in situ

Cranberries – in situ

Gooseberry -  to purchase, large and spiky

 

Planters 4 & 5

Salad – early spring

Sweetcorn in grid formation                      }

Squash between sweetcorn                     } 3 sisters

Beans (maybe) up the sweetcorn                        }

Trailing nasturtiums

Front of the Station  - Sue and Adrian to source and report back 

Globe artichoke

Chives

Coriander

dill

Parsley

Wild flowers as above