On Saturday, I did get down the allotment. I had some garlic, shallots and onion sets I wanted to plant out. Garlic - Sultop and Arno. Shallots - Golden Gourmet. Onions - well, handful of Red Baron and Turbo. 
Here is the plot with me at work in a colourful jumper. I may have been sowing some carrots - Paris Market, or Parsnips - Turga here. Also sown was a short row of Kohl Rabi - Azur Star.
A couple of seeds have germinated on the plot - Petit Provencal peas, Belize lettuce. The Broad Beans - Witkiem and The Sutton are also pushing through. Duke of York potatoes need to be earthed up soon.
I have started things down the plot earlier this year, but seed sowing indoors has started later (didn’t want to leave things for a week while was away on holiday.
In the garden, I sowed in the one veg box, spring onions Toga, Carrots Paris Market & Amsterdam Forcing, Lettuce Paris Island Cos and some Parsnips Turga. I hope I get more parsnips this year than I did from last season - just one! Looks a nice parsnip, but think I want slightly more quantity than quality this season!
Need to make more use of the gardens - we have a herb patch, mainly with the colourful sages and the different thymes, as well as mint. Must get round to freezing some herbs as well.
Primroses seem to be popping up everywhere. This one is in the back garden (morning shade). There is also one in flower in the front lawn.
The front garden isn’t very big. The “lawn” takes up a fair amount of “garden” space. There is a rowan tree in the middle. We want to put more flowers in, seeds and bulbs. There are herbs in the border too.Gave the lawn last weekend a quick feed with SM3 seaweed meal. Hopefully, next picture of the front lawn will look nicer! I like daisies, simple but pretty flowers. Not so sure about the dandelions but who hasn’t blown the seeds from a dandelion clock? Nature is comes up with pretty things.
We bought some bulbs for the front garden. Gladioli, as well as lilies.
OH wants lots of thyme and alpine strawberries down the allotment. Think it is time to thin out the thyme but that is his job! Little monster likes strawberries. As well as creeping thyme, he sowed orange-scented thyme, though hadn’t labelled them.
He was also in charge of sowing flowers, again, didn’t label. So, folks, what are these in the picture above? Perhaps lobelia and …. ?
Some seedlings on the window sill.
Last night, I potted up some of the tomatoes - I hve 8 Auntie Madge’s, 4 Sugar Italian Plum and 7 Salt Spring Sunrise (the latter I didn’t think had germinated - didn’t read label, so I have sown replacements!). Also potted up chervil into 4 pots. Started more seeds off as well - 5 Gerbera Californian Giants mix; Rosemary; 3 Eight-Ball courgettes; Sunflowers Red Sun & Earthwalker; Statice Sea Lavender mixed Penstemon Victorian mixed; Busy Lizzie. For OH’s work, I sowed 4-5 seeds each of Aubergine - Heritage & Red Egg, Pepper Golden Bell & Lemon Drop Hot Citrus Chilli.
Other things germinated - Oro & Trifetti peppers, Heritage & Szechuan aubergines, Bandit & Startrack leeks, Sweet Genovese & Red Bordeaux basils. In the greenhouse, Waltham and Seven Hills are awakening for the brassicas calabrese and brussel sprouts respectively. Also, the broad beans Witkiem and Cavalier peas sown in guttering are also appearing.
