Saturdays are really welcomed, as it’s normally a non-work day with no ‘urgent’ phone calls and emails, no timed appointments that have to be prepared for, and no journalistic deadlines to meet. The home garden has really lacked attention recently and now needs a really good autumn clean.
There are so many little things which do not get done when I am busy elsewhere, including last year’s cyclamen languishing in a 4in (11cm) pot. It was making new leaf and root, and has now been potted on into a larger 5in (13cm) pot, then brought indoors onto a light cool windowsill, and soon looks so much better in a fertile new root run.
This story is from the November 28, 2020 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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