Newsletter: 22nd September
Preparations for winter!
This week we started preparing Jekka's Herb Garden for the forthcoming winter season.
The Oreganos and the late-flowering Thymes underwent a pruning to remove all the old flowering stems and fallen leaves, providing space for new growth to develop. The removal of the old flowers prompts the plant to redirect its energy towards producing fresh foliage, ensuring that it establishes a beautiful cushion of leaves before the winter weather begins. This protective layer of new leaves serves as a safeguard for the plant's crown against the brutal elements of winter.
Pruning Jekka's Thyme Beds
Mac has started the rigorous job of pressure washing the glasshouse, polytunnels, and hard-standings. We clean our nursery every September, in anticipation of our principal propagation period in the autumn, in order to prepare for the spring season.
Cleaning ensures our cuttings and young plants grow in a pristine environment throughout the winter, which minimises the risk of pests and disease. Having cultivated our herbs organically for four decades, we are convinced that maintaining a clean nursery and workspace significantly enhances the health of our plants.
For more tips on what to do this autumn, as well as Jekka's herb action list, please check out her blog through the link below.
Power washing the glasshouse
For more tips on how to look after your herbs this autumn, read Jekka new book on herbs, titled '100 Herbs to Grow' , which was released earlier this year.
This incredible book offers a lifetime, over 40 years, of her unrivaled expertise. Jekka is not just an author, she is also a passionate herb grower and breeder! You'll find her tending her nursery every week of the year without fail.
If you are looking for a book full of horticultural knowledge, history and advice on growing Herbs that will guide you for many years to come, then you need to read '100 Herbs to Grow' by Jekka McVicar, VMH. The perfect stocking filler!!
Jekka's 100 Herbs to Grow
Your last chance to visit us this year and stock up on your autumn herbs and, for the organised, some Christmas gifts.
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