The sock factory is still in operation;
I don't have enough of the Lidl fancy pink sock yarn to make another pair of socks for me, but....
Isn't the baby sock cute? I wonder of there is enough for a little cardigan or jumper? After I have done the other sock, of course.
The paper plant pot factory was also in operation. Now I've got about fifty or sixty - I wasn't really counting. It's a shopping bag full, anyway. Now all I need is some decent weather to sow the seeds.
I did go out for ten minutes or so just to see what is happening in the garden. I spoke kindly to the broad beans. The seedlings are coming on, some have several leaves and are poking roots out through the sides of their paper pots. Do I dare risk putting them in the big tubs? It's not the weather that makes me hesitate but the slugs and snails!
I've also had a few direct words with the pea seeds I sowed at the same time. 'Either you grow, and appear soon, or I will replace you with peas from a different packet'. So now they know what I am expecting from them!
I do think that talking to the plants makes a difference. I go out with encouraging words every now and then!
ReplyDeleteIf it's OK for King Charles it's OK by me!
DeleteMy beans are 'hardening off' in the mini greenhouse. I hope to get them in the raised bed this weekend. Huw's book says "mid April" which technically is Monday
ReplyDeleteI sowed mine in cold frame, but kept lid up, so I guess they're already hardened off... I want to get anti slug sorted before I risk putting them in the garden
DeleteLove the pinkiness of those socks, I talk to my plants too, usually to say, come on grow a bit more!
ReplyDeleteI've just put my peas on notice if they don't appear soon! The socks are fun to make
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