Hallo zusammen, ich vertraue darauf, dass dies für GardeningUK nicht ausgeschlossen ist.
Zum Vergleich: Ich bin ein Mieter (Neuling, aber begeisterter grüner Daumen), der in eine Wohnung in Islington gezogen ist, mit Zugang zu einem Gemeinschaftsgarten, etwa nach Nordosten ausgerichtet. Aussie möchten im Frühling das Beste aus einem schönen Raum machen. Einige, aber begrenzte Werkzeuge sind vorhanden, aber die anderen Mieter (alle Eigentümer) haben den Segen, ihm etwas Liebe zu zeigen.
Ich habe gerade die metrische Ladung Blätter, die den gesamten Rasen bedeckt, in Kompostbehälter geharkt und ein wenig Unkraut gejätet und den Rasen gemäht. Der Rasen auf der Rückseite ist nicht vorhanden (starker Schmutz), näher am Haus ist besser, sieht aber alles ein wenig ramponiert aus. Ich bin auf der Suche nach Ratschlägen und Tipps, was wir jetzt tun können, um den Garten in den wärmeren Monaten optimal aufzustellen, damit er in den wärmeren Monaten erfolgreich ist. Ich bin mir darüber im Klaren, dass die hintere Hälfte des Gartens angesichts der vielen Bäume wahrscheinlich Probleme mit der Sonne haben wird. Könnte ich darüber nachdenken, Dinge wie Wildblumen wegzuwerfen? Samen, Klee usw., oder träume ich?
TLDR; NE-Garten, dichter Baumbestand, der halb verschmutzt ist – was kann ich für einen erfrischten Frühlingsraum tun?
Von: jdr-m
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Winter projects to start. Clean up the brick path/ edging. Cut some clean lines and turn/ mulch some beds. Will keep you out in the fresh with some cheap and relatively easy jobs OP. Keep us posted in progress.
Get your garden fork and jab it in the ground at random intervals, give it a little wiggle, drop some crocus bulbs in and you will have the start of a crocus lawn, a real lift for the spirits in the datk winter months!
Stack your leaves in a corner of the garden to create a haven for invertebrates and over wintering mammals!!
Get some native bluebell bulbs for the shaded area. You won’t need many as they love to spread. It will look lovely in the spring.
Clover might be a good idea; it can provide a lot of solid green to an otherwise shabby patchy lawn, and it flowers too. Comes in white and pink varieties, plus there’s a crimson clover that’s a taller species but that I like to throw in too. I did that with some newly built road medians here, and the grass is still sparse and yellow, but the clover has formed big green patches that flower all summer. Hard to go wrong with wildflowers too, but can be tricky to get them going if there’s not a lot of light. Look for hedgerow seed mixes with campion, foxglove and hardy geranium that do well in shaded areas. It’s also the right time of year for planting bulbs for spring. Some daffodils, grape hyacinth, tulips, wild garlic, crocuses and bluebells. Something to watch out for with bluebells though is native bluebells vs Spanish bluebells; the Spanish bluebells cross-pollinate and hybridise with native bluebells, which is best avoided, and I’m not sure where to buy true native bluebells. You can buy or collect seed for them, but it takes about 5 years for the seeds to mature into bulbs.
I would get a sack of cheap bulbs from the sales, daffodils, tulips, crocus, the lot and plant them. Not too late and loads of places offering them more cheaply.
Are these recent photos? I’ve got a bit of bare ground at the bottom of the garden and worked out it was because leaf fall was smothering the grass in winter. If it’s recent then there are no leaves and who knows…
It’s got great potential from a little general care, beware of any mad/uneven pruning of bushes as they all look pretty cared for and could easily be ruined. Watch a few YouTube vids before attempting that.
Hello from a fellow Islingtonian! If you’re quick you could probably shove some daffodil bulbs in around the garden – the bigger supermarkets at Angel are doing them quite cheaply at the moment. Cyclamen also does well in my shady garden, as do all varieties if geraniums/pelargoniums, japanese anemone, and hellebores.
The main advice I can give you is that the squirrels here are like nothing else I’ve seen before, they are like gang lords. So don’t plant any bulbs they may like to eat (eg snowdrop or tulip)
Honestly I’d probably do not do much right now, and see how it looks come spring. You don’t know if there’s already bulbs / things in the beds that are dormant and I’d hazard a guess that the grass will come back absolutely fine in the spring.
You want to be careful of any heavy pruning right now in case frost gets in the cuts (I’m up north so already had to put the lawnmower away for winter and leave everything else until spring with a mulch for protection.
Once you know what’s there, you can look at planting / dividing / tending / weeding etc
I feel strongly this wants some hellebores. I love Double Ellen White.