Seed Plan 2008

The plan starts in the last week of January with seven seeds/beans to plant. This afternoon I managed to plant three out of the seven:

Broad Bean - Imperial Green Longpod : there were probably about 50 plus beans in the packet and apart from a small number that were cracked or badly discoloured I probably have planted 50 beans. Mostly in individual pots but also two to a larger pot.

Cabbage - Excel F1 which were planted in two seed trays thinly with a view to planting them out into pots once they have propagated. Again this should result in approximately 30 cabbages which sounds good value for a £1.

Anagallis which is a flower that I have chosen as a staple for my pots and baskets.The seeds, all 50 of them, and no I didn't count them due to their minute size, were scattered gently over the surface of some John Innes No 1, dampened and tucked into a plastic bag then placed on the windowsill of the room that I use to blog on the computer. These seeds require a lot more warmth than the beans and the cabbages and will take about three weeks to sprout. Then they can be transplanted into individual pots to grow on in time for spring and summer.

This leaves me with four more packets of seeds to organise and hopefull there will be time between now and next Saturday to do that. However, I'm still not getting home until after dusk which means sowing by torchlight.