Well, not for me anyway. You see, now we have touched up our widgets, polished our megabits and re-aligned our webby-thingy modules to create the new, improved and swanky MowDirect site, there is even more work to be done. As the inestimable 80s TV legend Debbie Allen (playing Lydia Grant) says in that much loved TV series – Fame is not for free, you have to work for it and pay in bodily fluids, like sweat. Success is a long hard slog, and pretty much the same animal. You don’t achieve it by standing in the street waiting for it to fall on you like a piano in a silent comedy. It’s the same for your garden.
Which is a convoluted way of tying up our spanky new look and the hard work put in by all the MowDirect elves, to you getting your garden super, svelt and fit for purpose this season.
So. What’s to do? What floral delights does the madness of March have to offer and what do I do to get them to their best?
Well, of course, it still depends on the weather. By the time we boot the clocks forward and enjoy our early evenings again, we should be well into Spring proper, rather than, as we are now, peering through the letterbox at it as it hovers by the gate like a new boyfriend on a first visit tentatively deciding whether to knock on the door and come in.
OK. Well, first up, you should be thinking about sowing. Not SEWING, unless you ripped your trousers on that fence you were supposed to mend last year, SOWING. As the month develops, get those seeds, those little bundles of burgeoning life, into the ground. They won’t sow themselves. If you are a vegetable growing type gardener, you can sow carrots, spring onions (clue’s in the name), peas, Swiss chard and perhaps broad beans and lettuce.
You can plant potatoes, shallots and onion sets and you will absolutely need to get your tools out of their (hopefully) lovingly wrapped and oiled state and use them, if you haven’t already.
If you didn’t look after them, you may need new tools. No gardener, no matter how technologically minded, can get buy without a good quality fork and spade. With both, you need a good handle, a strong and durable shaft and a proper steel working head, like the galvanised versions here, available on our shiny, new site.
Did I say we’ve re-launched? Oh I did. OK. So what else? More sowing. Try early sprouting broccoli, parsnips and red cabbage. I’m getting quite hungry now.
As March… er… marches on, you’ll want to get some herbs in, the usual suspects, sage, basil, rosemary, thyme, parsley and so on.
You’ve really got to get round to mowing the lawn as well. Now is as good a time as any to check out your mower, if you’ve not already done it, see how it has survived the Winter and, if it hasn’t, think about a new one. I’m not sure, but I think we can help there. We have a very comprehensive range from cordless wonders, ideal for a smaller, urban garden – like the sleek and so quiet Mountfield Princess 38Li…
The Princess 38Li – very nice Your Highness
which is a very modern machine indeed, powered by clean, easy charging, long-lasting lithium-ion batteries and is fitted with a rear-roller so will, in addition, put a nice stripe on your lawn – to the Oleo-Mac G53-VK AllRoad Plus-4 Self-Propelled Lawn Mower,
a heavy-duty petrol mower at a very light-duty price. This machine is an enhanced version of the G53-TK model, very much beloved of our customers who have acclaimed it with such plaudits as…
“easy to use and a wonderful looking machine, strong and robust build.” “Great price, good build quality and great performance” and my personal favourite: “FANTASTIC!” Brevity and power in one word. It’s an orange beauty…
Orange Appeal
So. I think I’ve said enough. Spring is in the air and circling the garden ready to land. There’s plenty to do, so let’s get on with it. Enjoy your garden. Drew Hardy.
