Boxing Day - 🧅Sowing Onions and Passion Flowers 🌸

 

Happy Boxing Day !   Today's the day I am going to make a small start of sowing seeds  .

I am down on the Lizard in Cornwall , so please be aware that this may be too early for you .

Check for your own locality best sowing dates . 

                             I need to have a little tidy up in the shed . 

Apart from Spring Onions , I have only ever grown onions from sets . In the past quite successfully , but for the last two or even three years , not so successfully . Sets are not as cheap as they used to be and I can't afford to waste money , time and effort when they come up not much bigger than when I planted them !

I thought I'd give growing Onions from seeds a go and I want enormous ones this time round !

So someone advised me to try the Giant Onion Globo which is a nice large but flavourful onion ... and start it off on Boxing Day  . Today !

So here we go . If you have any onion growing tips , please let me know .

Now on the heated propagator on my bedroom windowsill . 

Next - Passiflora mollissima the pink flowering , also known as " the Banana Passionfruit " 🌸

I used to buy one of these plants every year from a chap at the Truro Boot Fair and then one day .....he stopped coming 😭😢😞

This is such a pretty pink Passion Flower 🌸I found this packet of seeds at the Happy Green Shop online . 10 seeds in this packet . 🌸Sown them all !   🌸 Love it !  🌸 Want it everywhere ! 🌸 

Took me half an hour to find that little water spray bottle .

All now on a heated propagator on the bedroom windowsill .

I made a note of my sowing dates last year and my next seeds to be sown will be the Sweet Peppers - "Corno di Toro Rosso" - on the 13 January .  These did very well last year  🌶️🌶️🌶️

I just hope and pray that the greenhouse men will come and fix the leaking greenhouse roof  .Especially now we're going into the coldest months . 

 They did say that they would come early January   😞

                My Little Red Books - very important  ⭐

                 Pencil to write on labels - ⭐

                 Labels - ⭐

                Squishy squirty little water bottle for indoors - ⭐ 

 Compost - ⭐- feels SO good to get my hands into the earth again ! ...Oh and the fragrance of it ! 

                 Heat  Propagator -  ⭐

                  Pans and lids - ⭐

                                             🌱   Seeds  🌱

                                                          🌿💚🌿