Potting up the seeds (by sarah)
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.
Wed 14th Mar 2007 9:11 pm 
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By Charlee, Thu 15th Mar 2007 @ 11:01 am
You can buy seeds in Tesco now, very helpful 😉
By Lionel, Mon 7th May 2007 @ 9:36 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.