活動／戦闘 計画（する）: CIAR BYRNE's 必須の 職業s for your garden this week

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LESS PLANTING, MORE PICKING

The vegetable garden 伝統的に 作品 on an 年次の pattern of （種を）蒔くing seeds, 工場／植物ing out, and 収穫ing.?Perennial vegetables 申し込む／申し出 an 代案／選択肢, and 伴う／関わる いっそう少なく 工場／植物ing and more 選ぶing.?

In her 調書をとる／予約する, The 気候 Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden (冷静な／正味の Springs 圧力（をかける） £22), Kim Stoddart looks at 刈るs that fit this approach.?

Chives are 十分な of flavour, resilient and come 支援する year after year with attractive bobbing purple flowers in spring.?

Asparagus needs a bed of its own; 工場／植物 栄冠を与えるs now and spears will appear year on year.?

Oca makes a good ground cover 工場／植物 and produces small pink and white tubers which can be cooked whole.?However, many you 収穫, there will always be some left in the ground.?

Perennial vegetables 申し込む／申し出 an 代案／選択肢, and 伴う／関わる いっそう少なく 工場／植物ing and more 選ぶing

The same is true for?Jerusalem?artichokes. Horseradish grows so 井戸／弁護士席 it can be hard to get rid of. Both leaves and roots can be eaten.?

Brassicas such as chard, purple sprouting broccoli and flatleaf kale can be turned 半分-perennial by leaving them in the ground for a few seasons.?

April is a good time to 工場／植物 evergreens

Other perennial vegetables 価値（がある） growing 含む Egyptian walking onions, the root vegetable skirret, leafy vegetable Good King Henry, Chinese artichoke, and groundnuts - or peanuts.?

ADD EVERGREEN SHRUBS?

April is a good time to 工場／植物 evergreens. First, 濃厚にする your 国／地域 with 井戸／弁護士席-rotted garden compost or manure.

Give your shrub, like this euonymus, a good soak by standing it in a bucket of water for a few hours.?

Dig a 穴を開ける the depth of the root ball, but three times as wide. position your shrub, refill with 国／地域 and 会社／堅い in with your foot, then water 井戸／弁護士席?

PLANT OF THE WEEK?

Lunaria Annua ‘Chedglow’?

Honesty self-（種を）蒔くs in my garden. It’s biennial, so one year we get just leaves, the next flowers, too.?

Honesty is biennial, so one year we get just leaves, the next flowers, too

It is wonderful for pollinators and 供給するs food for the caterpillars of the Orange Tip バタフライ.?

収穫 seeds after flowering and （種を）蒔く in the ground in June to bloom the next year or buy plug 工場／植物s now.?

READER'S QUESTION?

Help, how can I stop 少しのd from taking over my garden??

Jessica Foley, Broadstairs, Kent.?

The 穏やかな, wet spring has given all 工場／植物s a boo st, 含むing 少しのd.?

除去する shallow-rooted 年次の 少しのd such as chickweed and hairy bittercress with a 売春婦 or fork before they 始める，決める seed. Also, think of putting in groundcover 工場／植物s to 阻止する 少しのd.?

Big-root cranesbill, Geranium macrorrhizum, can be used to fill an area quickly and is happy in sun or shade.?

Another 急速な／放蕩な-growing 選択, ideal for a shady 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, is the Siberian bugloss, Brunnera macrophylla.?

‘Jack 霜’ is an attractive cultivar with heart-形態／調整d silver veined leaves and small blue flowers in spring.?