Now that Seed Catalogues, my light reading for January , have all arrived I'm about to note down all the seeds I've already got, half packets, quarter packs , full in date packs and full out of date packs . Like most gardeners I never use a complete packet in case I have to start again because I got the conditions all wrong , mostly temperature. This year I'm trying to keep to the instructions.
I am now trying to find a way of bringing all seedlings on with some heat without buying propagators .For months now I've been RESEARCHING thinking of trying a HOT BED. I've got 2 bales of straw and 20 sacks of horse manure so am just waiting for Amazon to deliver a sack barrow so I can get the sacks of manure into the greenhouse .
Ive learnt the hard way to avoid carrying anything heavy since putting my back out over 30 years ago . So for 4 days I've been waiting . I know the tracking email says it will be coming by 25th January but it also says its been dispatched , so it could arrive today !

I am just waiting for the sack barrow to arrive, and secretly hoping it will be the 25th January , but nevertheless waiting indoors in the warm until it does, or coxing and boxing with spouse to just get the paper or post a letter or get some milk . I've had the joy of listening to Any Questions on the radio, Ive nearly finished my Library book renewed 3 times and then bought on Amazon as the Library wanted it back for someone had reserved it .
I've got time to do a really nerdy thing, I might through all my packs of seeds and put them on a spread sheet with details . I will let you know if I manage to get any seeds to germinate from a pack of Jersey Walking Stick cabbage seeds that I bought 10 years ago from Chiltern seeds, but now that spouse is using a third leg it would be lovely to make him one.
Good luck with the vegetation. And with finding ingenious ways of making space for both sets. Did you ever do macrame??? XXX
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the vegetation and with making space for both sets of seedlings. Did you ever do macrame? XX
ReplyDeleteMacrame! THERE'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST! I remember Spider plants in one in our bathroom. I've just remembered 2 hooks still in the ceiling of window of upstairs bathroom
ReplyDeleteYou are rapidly becoming a one-woman cottage industry, the problem is what to call you.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we'd better wait to see how your current batch of ideas pan out and then give you your title.
Good luck, good weather and good blogging please.
Ray, I assure you I spend hours with spouse watching Antiques Road Trip and the like.
ReplyDeleteThen all I can say Margaret is, there must be more hours in your day than in mine.
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