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 .
