Towards the end of June, I received some seeds from Dobies to trial. I chose varieties that could be sown later in the year, but at the point at which they arrived I didn’t have a garden. The paving was finished, but the raised beds weren’t yet built. I chose to sow only the nasturtiums – Princess of India and Alaska.
Traditional advice for getting the best out of nasturtiums is based on the fact that they flower more freely if they’re grown in poor soil. Give them too much fertilizer, and they’ll grow lush and leafy and forget about flowering. Mine ended up being planted inbetween my new perennial veggies about a month later. In a bed which is full of deep, rich and heavily manured soil
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