Hooray ! 🌱🌱🌱🌱

          Just two days later !  We shall have Courgettes !  I'm so happy !  😍 

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Seeds Glorious Seeds !

 Yesterday I planted out some of my kale seedlings ( others to grow on in the shed for sweet baby leaves to add to salads ) Sown a line of Parsnips , carrots and swede seeds .

All sounds so easy doesn't it ? 

Removing all the old fenceposts , bricks , rusty tent peg/pins and big rocks .

Removing the green netting .

Then....

This was a seriously down on muddy knees kind of a job with a session of weeding before hand .

The Robin followed my every move for grubs and tiny worms .

Then to get the chicken pellets down .

Then to cover it all over again  ....and to have to remove it again to chase out my Robin friend . 

I was glad of the rain that came in as I finished, to water everything in .

This morning sown Sweetcorn "Swift" , climbing beans "Blue Lake" , dwarf beans "Slenderette" , climbing bean "Supermarconi". Not grown Supermarconi before , I believe it is more like a runnerbean , stringless to be picked at the four or five inch stage for tender green pods or pick when larger for the beans . Anyone grown this one before ? What did you think of it ?

Sown way more than I need of Courgettes "Defender"F1,Butternuts "Waltham "and "Hunter" ,Pumpkin "Dills Atlantic Giant " for the children to carve for Hallowe'en .

Beetroot "Detroit Dark Red" and another sowing of Parris Island Romaine Lettuce to keep them coming . 

I haven't been feeling very well for the past couple of days , but really wanted to get these seeds sown . I really pushed myself to get it done .

The Courgette, Butternuts and Pumpkin seeds are on the heated propagator , it's a very , very low temperature , just until they germinate , then I prick them out immediately at the two leaf stage 🌱and give them each their own pot .

 I bring them on for bit then take them up to the shed . They will have a second re-pot before I plant them out mid-May or thereabouts .

                               🌱    Seeds glorious seeds !  🌱

Note to self - find some paperclips to seal the used seeds packets up with !

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                              🐝     love Debbie 💐

     

Update 

I found the paper clips but then decided that little inch cuts of sellotape  would work better on my foil and plastic seed packets to keep them secure .  

Also nice and easy to open and re-use .     

                         

                 All neat and tidy again . 

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Coriander 🌿

 

Meanwhile in the shed . I am growing lots of leafy things for salads .

Everything is doing really well . The idea is that snails can't get at them .

Although one or two sometimes find their way in !  Excuse me ...you can't take a nap there !   

Generally speaking , I rarely find any snails or slugs when growing my salad leaves in the shed .

There was a wasp in the shed this morning , and it was very difficult to chase him out !                                               

Time to prick out and pot on my Coriander seedlings .

    Yes I collect stones with holes in them , don't you  ?   ....fossils , heart stones , funny face stones ......  😃

The Coriander took a very long time to germinate and the roots were very tangled .

That is why I generally prick seedlings out at the cotyledon stage 🌱

Anyway ....

 I managed to gently prize apart the delicate roots and repot them with about two or three in each pot .

              Delicious mixed in with salad leaves ..... mmmmm  🌿🌿🌿

                I think the sun is trying to come out today ☀️

I can't believe we are half way through April already !!

 Next I have to make a start sowing sweetcorn , beans and squash .

I just need to clear the decks a little bit in the shed and get the seed pans , pots , propagators( not heated ones ) and compost ready .

I must also remember to sow another lot of lettuce seeds to keep them coming .

I'd also like to make some time to put my feet up and do my embroidery . 

 I hope that the weather is improving wherever you are and you are able to grow a few nice things too .

                     Thinking of you  

                                        Debbie  x

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