Another day in the garden; two in a row!
This afternoon I slowly sorted out some suitable earth to fill 36 more paper pots in which I hope to sow some heritage sweet pea seeds from Kew - six varieties - that I was given as a Christmas present.
The earth was so wet from a winter sitting in an opened bag of peat-free compost that I added some much drier spent soil. I then had a very messy time sorting through, evicting a few slugs and snails, lobbing dozens of earthworms into other flower beds, and, a revolting job this, popping all the little yellow slug eggs as I went along. I won't have got them all, but I will have dented their numbers.
The instructions for the sweet peas say to make a small chip in the hard casing, on the opposite side to where the indentation for the first shoot is, I think. I hadn't heard of this before, and I will double check before I start chipping away with a knife.
We had homegrown chard for lunch; picked and cooked within the hour, with chopped shallots and garlic. Very good it was too.
Great to get the gardening done this time of the year, less to do later. I've never chipped sweet pea seeds but I've always started them off on a sunny windowsill and they've always grown well. Good luck with yours.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I've gone off using a sunny windowsill after the housecfilled with little black flies last time! They seem to be everywhere
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DeleteI have never chipped sweet pea seeds. I do plant them in long root trainers though.
ReplyDeleteThe paper pots aren't Very Long, but deeper than seed trays. Hopefully they'll be long enough.
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