Seed Sowing

Sunday was nice weather in the afternoon. Brought up spring onions and flower seedlings from home. Delphiniums, sweet peas and asparagus into cold frame to harden off. Built 3 raised beds and covered with fleece to warm up the soil. Finished nursery/seed bed with flag stepping stones and edging. Planted the aqualegias in and moved redcurrants out and into fruit border. Mulched all the fruit bushes and canes with manure to keep weeds down and preserve moisture.

Started sowing seeds in earnest Monday and Tuesday. Hardy annuals, biennials, peas, beans, carrots and onions were all sown in the greenhouse at the allotment. Planted 3 'nicola' tubers in tyres to make use of spare ground and spare potatoes. At home sowed next batch of salad and leaf seeds and potted up courgettes, one of each variety (six varieties inc butternut). Still have
plenty left to pot up. Second sowing of tomatoes are doing well. There is always the tendancy to sow too many seeds and end up with a glut of plants but with slugs, disease etc its always good to have a few in reserve. The problem is i dont like to throw any seedlings!

Grasses and aqualegias in the nursery bed