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March 7th, 2008 - Feel Like We're Getting Started It's something that Dan has been longing to do for weeks and now, it's done!
He's started planting seeds!
While this may not be the most exciting event in everyone's life, for us it marks the beginning of a new year, full of hope and we are cautiously optimistic that last year is now well behind us and that this year, everything will go smoothly (or at least as smooth as possible)
Compared with some of the locals, we are a bit behind schedule especially given the other weekend, we had absolutley glorious weather.
That said, a couple of days ago it was absolutely freezing, the lake iced up and we had a combination of snow, hail, rain and strong winds all day long!
So, in the first batch of seeds Dan's planted: - Gardener's Delight cherry tomatoes
- Moneymaker tomatoes
- Marmande beef tomatoes
- Tiger tomatoes
- Red & white cabbages
- Iceberg & Lolla Rosa lettuce
- Cucumbers
- All of last years old lettuce seeds mixed up for "baby leaves"
- White Lisbon spring onions
- "18 Day" radishes - we'll let you know whether 18 days is true or not
- Purple sprouting brocolli
- Calabrese
- Aubergines
If anything did go right last year, it was the fact that every seed germinated. Ok, it all ended up dying and we had bugger all to eat, but it did all germinate.
We know the theory of successional planting but Dan get's carried away, so this year, with his River Cottage diary (Xmas present from Tracey's mum), he's written it all down and fully intends to stick with it.
If all goes to plan, we should have a consistent level of produce for the whole year as opposed to 38 courgettes being proudly placed on the kitchen table in 1 afternoon (if the freezer had of been full, then Tracey was going to shove the excess courgettes where the sun doesn't shine!)
As it still falls to below zero some nights in the polytunnel, the seed trays are currently in the garage which has an ambient temperature of around 16 degrees.
Once germinated, we'll harden them off to the polytunnel and then repeat the process when it's time to move them outside. View The Blog Read All Veggie Patch Stories |
