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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Butternut Squash Babies Potted Up

 

Look how they've grown ! I am going to pot them up now .  I could have put them one seed into each 3or 4" pot but this way I can get more of  them all onto the propagator . 

 You can sow them direct outside when the weather warms up , but I have more success doing mine this way .

It's amazing how in just three days they have germinated and made so many roots already .

Abracadabra ...... and they're done and now residing in the warmth of the greenhouse  , just until they've settled in . 

I won't be planting these out for quite some time yet , maybe the middle of May or so for us down here in the far south west of Cornwall .  Keeping a close eye on what the weather might be doing then though .

If you live further up country , you'd probably best wait until the end of May  .

 

It's a bit cloudy today and I'd be grateful for a passing shower or two to water in the onions sets, spring onions ,that I planted and the carrot and parsnip seeds that I sowed yesterday .

 The rain ceased as soon as our new guttering and water-butts were fitted up on the greenhouse and I'm back to carrying watering cans from the cottage all the way up to the vegetable garden . 

I have no idea where my husband  has hidden the hosepipe ....grrrrrr   I tried wheeling the cans up in the wheel barrow but it sloshes all over the place as I push it uphill . I will have to buy another two hoses.....I  have to connect two together to reach all the way up to the vegetable garden .

Everything I do in the garden right now is so hard on my back .

 Time for a flop and some hand cream .

Tomorrow's job is to pot up the Cucumbers Femspot and Beth Alpha  .  

How's it all going with you ?

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