At long last we have had a respite from the bitter winds and so with a smidgin of sunshine it has felt positively warm today. This made me venture out to find my propagator in the garage and start sowing seeds.
Hurrah!
I have sown celaric because it needs so long to grow to a decent size, tomatoes Marmande and St Pierre, aubergine Long Purple, courgettes Jemmer and Green Bush and Marconi peppers. I know that I will be looking closely every day until I see them coming up.
I also started to chit my potatoes. International Kidney – or Jerseys as I call them, Charlotte as I love their waxy texture and King Edwards. The King Edwards are always a bit hit and miss in my dry sandy soil if they don’t get enough water. I have had good crops the last two summers as it has been so wet. I bought far too many tubers so I am going to try something I haven’t done before. I’m going to pot some up in bags and leave them in the polytunnel and see if I do get any earlier crops.
This afternoon I cleared a bed that was full of ivy and nettles so that I could transplant some beautiful roses. They are an old english variety of deep purple and are in the wrong place at them moment.
However, what I need know is a cup of tea and a lie down!
by Monty Don. He manages to capture his love and real need for the garden as part of his well-being. He talks about his thousands of photos of the garden and how he likes to look through them and I realised that I have taken hardly any even though I have been trying things out for eight years here and down at the allotment.
Pot and Plot 
