Potting up the seeds
Yesturday we started digging over the plot and putting a turf path through the middle of it to make two smaller managable plots - I could not really get to everything last year so we are going to see if this improoves things!
We still have a bit more work to do on the plot as we have the ground dwelling catipillars to get rid of for a start!
Still today I started potting up seeds but becuase I am a skin flint I decided that the peat pots from last years house guest forgetting to water cuasultys could be used this year - so there I was and later Al, emptying them and trying not to crack them in the process!
I used the soil from the wormery - and oh what bliss! Compared to last years mole earth and riddling compost through sieves milarky!
However I did randomly find a pice of blue j-cloth in the wormery along with some of those stickers they put on fruit! The bizarest thing was that the j-cloth had some how become rubbery and elastic when the ones we use are not elastic at all!
The only down side to the wormery soil is that I had to extract some worms before using it but I dont think this is too high a price to pay!
I potted up cucumber seeds, cauliflower, carrots in a seed tray (this is a bit of an experiment and is completely against the instructions!), lovage and tarragon.
I was sad to find the globe artichoke packet upside down with no sign of the seeds especially as I was going to give some to Barabara who had realised she had forgotten to get any this year and wanted some.
You can buy seeds in Tesco now, very helpful
Comment by Charlee — Thu 15th Mar 2007 @ 11:01 am
Tarragon - that's ambitious. In South Africa i have only got the Russian tarragon so far, and its rubbish, no flavour to speak of. I got seeds of French T but was warned they are quite tricky to get going. The good stuff is usually propogated by cuttings or something.
So that, and lovage too i tend to buy as plants - because lovage grows big and i only really need one or two plants and a packet of seeds seems a waste.
Comment by Lionel — Mon 7th May 2007 @ 9:36 am