My sunny border is already fairly well stocked and I mulched it with cocoa shells back in March. This makes planting out new specimens quite difficult as (a) there's little room to work with a spade and (b) the cocoa mulch tends to crack and break,even if I use a trowel. So today I hit on a bright idea. I used a bulb planter down it's full depth, back filled with compost and bonemeal to the required depth and then popped the plants in. It worked a treat. :D
G x
