The Cottage Garden in a Container! 🏡 #gardening

June is when my garden truly bursts into life. Flowers bloom, scent wafts on the warm breeze and the early signs of wildlife are everywhere.

There’s lots to keep on top of, but as long as you cover the essential tasks, this is a great time to start getting creative in the garden.

ALAN IS USING:
Compost with added John Innes, Tomato Grow Bags, and Multi-Purpose compost from Melcourt – https://rb.gy/oztvas
Lettuce seeds from Fothergills – https://rb.gy/rvkrp6
Tools from Spear and Jackson – https://rb.gy/6wl4lh
Potting bench from Forest Garden – https://rb.gy/zpavwq
Table and Bench dining set from Forest Garden – https://rb.gy/0ihsne
Hose from Gardena – https://rb.gy/ud9afv
Plants for containers, Climbing plants and Tomato plants from Blue Diamond Garden Centres – https://rb.gy/0ehb4p

In this video I bring together all the jobs you need to do in June:
– With many perennials and annuals in flower, now is a great time for planting containers, particularly if you have a small garden.
– With the chance of frost behind us, you can now grow many varieties of fruit and veg outside. Tomatoes are a favourite of mine and here are three ways I plant them.
– Another key job in the fruit and veg patch is planting pollinators. The more pollinating insects we have in the garden, the more healthier the crop we’ll produce. Companion planting means adding pollinators like cosmos and french marigolds to your veg garden to bring in the bees and discourage insects that can damage some of your crops.
– My climbers are starting to really come into their own but now is a good time to pick up mature climbers from garden centres. I show you how to choose the right one for your garden.

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My name’s Alan Titchmarsh, and I’m absolutely delighted to welcome you to my YouTube channel! I’ve been a gardener for over 60 years and I can safely say that gardening is one of life’s greatest joys, and I can’t wait to share it with you.

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Now, we all have an idea of what the ideal cottage garden looks like. So, I’ll do my take on a sort of slightly more tasteful cottage garden. I’m planting in what’s called a verai tub. They’re handsome things in almost any style of garden, but they do suit the cottage mix. When you’re using a tub which is wooden, line it to help preserve it for future years from rotting. I’ve put in here a liner of black polyine just to make sure that the compost itself doesn’t sit right alongside the wood. Certainly not for most of the container. And I’m using a multi-purpose pete-free compost with added John inis which has a bit of lom in it. It just gives it that much more body.