Go cordon

This month we are talking about space. Not the final frontier kind (‘to boldly go’ was my English teacher’s favourite example of a split infinitive), but the ‘running out of’ kind. Even when taking over a new larger garden or an allotment, there will come a point after a few short years where you struggle to see how you can fit in any new plants.

It’s at this point that there is normally some sort of cull, to leave only plants which earn their keep, for example ornamentals which have several seasons of interest, rather than just a brief flash in the pan and then 11 months of staid greenery (flowering cherry trees, I’m looking at you here).

For the fruit grower, we have to start to look at squeezing every last bit of production