Storm Ivo ⛈️🌧️ Cornwall

 Yet another cold windy rainy miserable dark and gloomy day . We have Storm Ivo rattling through .

I'm just sitting on my bed with my hot water bottle , deciding what to do .  Sowing ....or sewing  ?

I sat and shuffled through my seed packets . 

⛈️Please note - With regard to sowing seeds . I am in the very far South West of Cornwall - this may be far too early for people further up country . 

So far I have only sown a few Onion and Sweet Pepper seeds , on a heat propagator on my bedroom windowsill .⛈️

I am going to sow my Tomato seeds on 1st February . It is what I did last year  . I have it written in my little red note book .  We had a good harvest .  

I usually grow Alicante , Supersweet F1 , and last year I tried Roma VF .   All very nice !

This year I am switching out the  Tomato Supersweet 100 F1 for Tomato Cocktail  Crush F1 ,this is because I want a slightly larger cherry tomato .  I am definitely growing Roma VF again . It has lovely plum shaped fruits .

I start them off on my heat propagator on my South facing bedroom windowsill .

I plan to grow just a couple of each in the unheated greenhouse and give away any spares .

I am also going to start off a few Cucumber seeds Femspot and Beth Alpha ....but not too many . 

So I checked on the Sweet Peppers and I will be gently pricking them out and potting them on , maybe later today , once again ,I don't think I'll be needing all of them . After a couple of days I'll take them up to the shed ....or maybe the greenhouse . 

The new greenhouse roof is still leaking even after the men came to fix it .  I am so disappointed  . I can no longer recommend that particular portable buildings company . 

Here are my little darlings  . Sweet Pepper babies .

I will be sowing Leeks , as they are so easy , reliable and useful in the kitchen . They don't need any heat to germinate . I'm growing Leek "Bleu de Solaise" this year . I also found an old packet of Leek "Neptune" .

 Anyone know where I can get hold of some seeds of a French variety called "Jeune de Poiteau"  ? I used to grow it together with Bleu de Solaise and they just looked very handsome growing together . 

Anyway ...

Only one Passiflora mollissima seedling so far . They can be a bit erratic germinating . I am overjoyed though to have even just one of these lovely plants ! I might carefully prick that one out and pot it up  . 

The Lemon scented Geranium plug plants that I bought on Ebay , are doing fine  . There are lots of other different scents to choose from , but I just love this one .

During a very short interval of the horrible weather , this sweet little charm of Long-Tail Tits turned up on my feeding station .  

I think I need to add "more fatballs " to my shopping list  . 

 Happy Chinese /Japanese New Year  to those who celebrate it . 

Sigh .... I think it will be a sit on my bed sewing day after all . Take care in this stormy weather . 

                   Hope you are all o.k. Sending a hug to you  💐x

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