🌱Sweet Pepper seedlings update ! 🌱

 This morning I pricked out and potted on my Sweet Pepper "Snack bite "seedlings .

I noticed some shoots coming on my Turmeric . 

  

                                    ......very happy me !  ( I had thought I'd lost it ! ) 

I returned the Sweet Peppers to the heated Garland propagator tray on my bedroom windowsill .

I will keep them here just until they get their roots down , then I'll take them up to the shed  .

I will sow my Tomato seeds the second week of February . I am just warming up their pots of compost .

This year I am growing Tomato Scatolone 2 which is a lovely large , flavourful  plum tomato without so many seeds inside  and Tomato Divinity F1which is said to be a large cherry type .

I think they are both indeterminate or semi indeterminate and bushy but I will give them string supports in my greenhouse . They don't need so much pinching out , both lovely and tall . 

I always grow my Tomatoes in the greenhouse . I have never had much success growing them outside .

 The weather  ⛈️🌧️🌦️...... ☀️.......but mostly.... 🌦️🌧️⛈️

As you are probably aware we are still having very stormy weather . Severe gales and torrential rain.

So with the ground being so saturated , I am not able to do much out in the garden , but this is just as well , as I still have a long way to go with my spine injury .  I am pacing myself .   

But with my spine slowly healing and getting outside , pottering about and sowing seeds is definitely helping with the horrible anxiety that I have been dealing with . Do you suffer with this ? It is hard to break through the brick wall to do things isn't it ? 

It is good to get my hands into the good earth again . It is very healing .

Getting out into the fresh air and walking in nature is good and helps with sleep too .

🌦️Even in the rain ! 🌧️

So half an hour later ....... yep ........ all of them !  ☹️

They'd all passed out ! 

Don't panic ! Don't panic ! 

They just don't like being transferred . If this happens to yours , don't worry . Just put the propagator lids over the pots like this and ( 🙏🏻 ) and they will soon pick up again .

                                        Told you !  😃

                🌱   All shall be well and all shall be well ! 🌱

Meanwhile up in the shed .....

Lettuce begin sowing !   

I am growing two Romaine type lettuces . Lovely crisp , long leaved types . One red and one green .

Lettuce Parris Island and Red Romaine Cos . For no other reason than I particularly like the flavour and crispy crunchiness of them .

 There are so many different types of lettuce to choose from out there , you choose what you like  , they are all so easy to grow .

 Just a very small pinch to begin with .

I sow them on the surface , just gently patting them down .

Gently spray to settle the seeds in , they turn themselves up the way they want to be . 

 I put them on the bench , in front of the shed's sloping window .

I will watch to make sure they don't dry out , but they should pop up in a few days time .

I will let these grow on , then prick them out and pot them up four or five to a pot . Then I harvest a couple of leaves from each and keep them growing .  At that point I will sow another lot and try to repeat this , so that we will have plenty of lettuce all through the year . 

AND 

...growing them in the shed like this I can make sure that there are no slugs or snails .🐌🐌🐌

Other news....

      Sauromatum venosum  🦇

               Sauromatum venosum shoots are still pushing up  !

 They are in a pot outside  and it seems that every time I walk past , there are more and more shoots appearing !

                                              Love and Peace to you !  🕊️

                                                        🌿🤍🌿