At Golden Acres we really are ‘Passionate about Plants’. So much so that we grow most of our own bedding plants. At this time of year we review the plants we grew over the Spring and Summer to ensure we keep growing only the best varieties.
Last Wednesday we visited one
Last Wednesday we visited one
of our seed and seedling supplier’s
trials grounds to see what their pick
of the crops were and if any of
the new plants they breed each
year might be good enough
for us to try.
As you can see they have been busy and we were hard pressed to not get carried away ordering all the beautiful new plants they have been breeding. 
We took advantage of the weather this week-end and really cracked on with landscaping the garden. We dug out the veggie garden at the far end of the garden and built the two raised veggie beds which I’d bought from our John Browns centre. I’m quite fussy about quality for this sort of thing and was really pleased to have found some strong and sturdy beds that were surprisingly easy to build look great and were relatively in-expensive.
We filled them up with some of the soil we’d dug out mixed with plenty of horse compost to give the soil some bulk and nutrient, well worth the effort and money to ensure we get the strongest healthiest crops.
