30th March

After playing with my charming 4 year old  in his Bob the Builder play tent in our bedroom, and having made a campsite with my proper, grown up stove, mess tin and camping kettle, we ventured out into the garden. After another while I was inescapably drawn into pottering around with seed trays and the like. The Sweet Marjoram has sprouted – they are tiny little green shoots, like needles. I sowed some more herbs – Russian tarragon and fennel, which has a lovely pungent aroma like aniseed. I plucked out my far too long, pale and leggy cauliflower and sprouts seedlings and re-sowed into the now vacant modules. I also sowed some more sprouts of both Bedford-Fillbasket and Brigitte into those little mushroom pot propagators. I potted-on 3 sprouts seedlings and I will just have to see if they grow robust enough. The sweet peas are looking good, probably a little too tall before their first leaves come through, but seem to be OK. I pinched out the tops of 2 of them as I had read this was a good idea to make them branch out and be a bit more robust. I only did 2 as I feared killing them (that’s me just being paranoid). Apart from that, the Nicotiana seedlings are just popping up. They are the faintest, tiniest little things I have seen, and it is a wonder that they will one day be vibrant plants giving (hopefully) lots of flowers.

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