My Conservatory Was Overrun!!! (Bedding Plants in General)

Member Name: gailmill

Product:	Bedding Plants in General
Date:	12/07/01 (62 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice show in summer

Disadvantages: Don't plant too many, Lots of work tending to the plants

We moved to a new property late lastyear and although we have a medium to small garden with small beds, I looked forward this year to planting up the beds and some containers and baskets. I'd never really done any gardening before so I bought loads of packets of seeds, seed trays and lots of compost and got started come February.

This new house has a conservatory attached so I had a great place to store all my trays of seed. However, once all the seeds I had planted started to germinate, I realised that I had gone a *mite* over the top!

Obviously as seedlings grow, they need putting into small then larger pots and unfortunately for me, my conservatory is only 10 foot square. My about April, there were pots everywhere. Every sill had been taken up, I rigged up a little racking affair so I could put more trays of pots on and still I had to use the house windowsills too for all the growing plants. We literally couldn't use the conservatory for sitting in by this time!

We lived like this until about May when thankfully I could start planting out. Even so, I had hundreds more plants than I needed! I had to buy many containers to house all these plants and I even gave away loads to neighbours. I will certainly know neext year though.

So, for anyone who is rather inexperienced at gardening, when you are starting plants from seeds, if you don't have a proper greenhouse, be careful not to go overboard like I did, otherwise you will find your whole house over-run like ours was.

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