No sign yet of HSL seeds, order form sent off within 48 hours of receiving (Saturday reading, Monday post). I’ll just have to learn to be patient - I WANT MY SEEDS NOW!
While am waiting for the season to “begin”, I am catching up with reading. Current reading is Organic Magazine - February 2008 issue which has “This month in your garden” for January. Nearly bought Kitchen Garden Magazine but do I really want more tomato seeds (two varieties)?
So, what can I do this month - well, first on their list is to sort seed-box! I can’t sort my seedbox without the HSL seed (excuses, excuses!). I am not sowing anything yet, but I suppose I could sow some “indoor” herbs such as parsley, basil, coriander… This month in the garden (and allotment), I should get round to pruning the gooseberries and red/whitecurrants. OH did some digging at the weekend. On his next visit, he intends to shift some manure. Another urgent job would be cleaning out the so-called greenhouse (well, its more a continuation of the shed with corrugated plastic sheeting), if it doesn’t fall apart first. Have already cleared out the windowsill in the front room ready for later this month when I intend to start sowing seeds. I wonder what the bitpart series Grow Your Own has to say for weeks 1&2 for January.
The vegetable the magazine looks at is celeriac: “celeriac may not be a pretty vegetable, but it’s hardy, it’s easy to grow, and it tastes great!” Well, I can’t grow it - all sowings have been a failure. They germinate ok, but when I transplant, they don’t seem to perk up, etc. Should I try again (4th? attempt)? Have done ok on celery - Solid Pink, I think it was - did brilliantly. Grew a different celery variety (self-blanching?) last year but it was ok-ish. Maybe I need to start celeriac earlier (the magazine says you can sow late January or February) I think I’ve been sowing in March.
Other books on the go are: The Gardener’s Wise Words and Country Ways; Carrots Love Tomatoes; The Little Book of Slugs; Reduce Reuse Recycle; Composting: An easy household guide. I returned the other books back to the library. I found he Allotment Chronicles - A social history of allotment gardening, to be a very boring book but I perservered for 3 chapters. I still haven’t finished Imajica (having said that, I still haven’t finished Lord of the Rings started 22 years ago though think I had finished The Fellowship of the Ring back then).
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