Quick note while I take a break from revising for exam on Monday.
Have ordered seeds, mainly chillis from Simpson’s Seeds (caught in postal strike, taking 11 days to arrive from ordering), other seeds from Real Seeds (arrived before postal strike ordered same day as Simpsons, 4 days to arrive), and finally, 2 days ago, ordered seeds from the Organic Gardening Catalogue. Only catalogue now am eager to receive is the Heritage Seed Library catalogue, due early December? Should have some spare seeds for swapping purposes at Potato Day 2008 at Ryton (hope I remember to take them, or I’d have to part with some money for donations).
I intend to be more organised next year. Although this year, the early season went well, by May/June with the chocolate spot and blackfly, etc which disheartened me, I didn’t stay organised. A few things were sown without labels even though labels had been prepared. This month, have already written labels but now have enclosed them in the corresponding seed packets. I have been cutting up aluminium drinks cans to use as labels and mastering the art of writing backwards.
Things are afoot with the Garden Organic messageboards - a new login system (details found in their Announcement forum). Current discussions involve slugs/snails, caterpillars, horsetail (there was a study reported in the Autumn edition of The Organic Way), Skirret, plot planning, as well as book reviews …..
When the exam is finished, will have to catch up with Selfsufficientish and A4A.
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