Cunning plan

My plan of attack for the next couple of weeks is:

• repot enough seedlings to start hardening off
• put them somewhere cooler than my windowsill
• plant them in final location
• plant more seeds
• Rinse
• repeat

Anyone ever had any luck with physalis giving fruit? I want to grow to eat, not for decoration, although that's an added benefit.

I have also been given a load of carrot seeds, are carrots hard to grow? I have heard of carrot fly...

The small is obsessed with watering and weeding. This is mostly good, however, what she wants to weed isn't always quite right. Luckily I have more than my fair share of rocket seedlings.

Our exciting planting venture of the week was to put loads of fresh potting compost into the planter that lives on the shelf in our porch. Normally we regrow morning glories there every summer. This year we're trying morning glories AND dwarf peas. Both lots are coming up already, after being planted and heavily watered on Thursday. Impressive!

Photos

See, I do sometimes take pictures, honest!




What a difference a couple of weeks makes. Look at the size of my chives!









Notice my little mutant sweetcorn? One of them is coming up twisty and turny...



























These pictures are of the teeny tiny raised bed that my mother-in-law gave me as a birthday present. We filled it with two growbags, and the small and I planted a whole load of mixed lettuce type things: red mustard, pak choi, rosette pak choi, lambs lettuce, and some beetroot. The things in pots are the rosemary we're rooting from the giant and straggly rosemary bush we got rid of, and the black grass (Ophiopogon nigrescens, I think) that lived where we've put the bed. I think it looks lovely in that turquoise pot.