Over the last few days I have been doing a few little jobs in the garden and I really thought I was on a roll, then yesterday morning I woke up to really heavy rain and temperatures that had plummeted ... as promised by the previous nights weather person.
So I decided to find an indoor something or other that I could do to try and keep me motivated.
A little trawl through my seed tin and I found two different kinds of courgette seeds, a pack of cucumber seeds and some rocket. So I sowed them all in little pots with labels.
And now they live on the bedroom windowsill, alongside the chitting potatoes.
The potatoes that we have had from Riverford for the past few deliveries have been delicious, so I had decided to sacrifice three of them to see if I can grow some for myself this Summer. Fingers crossed. 🤞
I'm not growing too much this year, for two reasons, firstly, my health. Gardening is becoming increasingly difficult for me and I can only manage a few minutes at a time without a long rest, and secondly because of our imminent move we want to wind the garden here down to make it truly easily manageable, but at the same time we want to keep it photogenic enough for when we put this house on the market later this year.
So just a few vegetables, and our regular fruit from the apple tree and the blueberry bushes will be more than enough.
Sue xx
Gardening is all about thinking ahead, not necessarily in ways you expect. I'm eyeing up the appalling chaos in my veg patch and leaving it well alone; in two month's time (hopefully) the garden will become an almost inaccessible building site when they (fingers crossed) start (maybe) digging foundations for our extension.... so I keep saying NO whenever the urge to sow seeds comes over me.
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