What is going on with this weather? Crikey! It's not really like May is it? It's cold! At times I wonder if our little seedlings will be ok at night in 3-6 degree Celsius temperatures. Where will this climate change take our future food? .....
Miss J's garden corner was looking ready to sow a few weeks ago anyway so we decided to dig it. The seeds we'd sown previously in heated propagators didn't seem to take off so we opted for sowing the seeds directly instead. A little late, but everything was late in the garden this year as its just been so cold and wet. I think I'm going to put the heated propagators up for sale. They haven't produced anything strong ever. No idea why.
All our seeds are heirloom organic seeds. What's the point in supporting giant food and seed companies selling hybrid seeds and having to crawl back to buy more GM seeds every year. I'd like the control to be in our hands, and I'd like homegrown organic non-sprayed veg grown from our own seed. Miss J had the option to pick any seeds from the pile and decided she'd go for peas, carrots, and lettuce. Great! She loves eating peas and carrots, maybe this will get her eating lettuce!
We dug over her garden, and 'groomed' it. ie. took out all weeds, lumps, stones (the big ones anyway) and sticks and added our own compost from last year. Then Miss J made 'semi' straight lines with the side of her hand, little trenches, and spread the seeds as evenly as she could before covering them up gently. It didn't have to be perfect or symmetrical, what's the fun in that! ;)
Then off she went to find one of her 4 watering cans and filled it with river water and watered in her seeds. Voila! Very proud of my little girl. This time it's bound to work. I have much more faith in the polytunnel beds than in that propagator.
....... That was about a month ago, and now?! Seedlings! Yippee! The carrots and peas are up, not quiet sure what happened to the lettuce, lol. Slugs or fairies maybe :)
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