A confession...

On a quest for a better watering rose so as not to damage or drown our little seedlings I noticed some reduced onion and shallot sets so bought a pack of each. Thankyou to everyone that voted on our poll but we have now planted some onions and a couple of shallots. Most were past they'r best but we should have enough to last a while as you can store them easily. They look quite funny as they are basically mini onions and you have to plant them with the top poking out of the soil just enough so that birds can't get hold of them but they get enough sun to grow. So thats our little confession, we'll still be looking at the poll for our next lot of sowing though!

Our indoor seeds are continuing to do very well, the climbing beans have shot up and are by far the biggest plant we have now! They are quite interesting to watch too, the stems are alot thicker than any other shoots we've had and they ping up really slowly shedding an outer layer to reveal bright green leaves which open to about an ih in diameter! We planted two seeds in each pot but will need to give them individual pots at the weekend as the roots have already reached the bottom of the pot. The lettuce, tomato, carrot and sweetpea seedlings seem to be doing well and we can now see the first shoots of our peppers and some of the herbs: chives, sweet basil, basil neoploitan and coriander have all germinated. We also have a couple of different strawberry varieties which have been repotted and added to the existing plants - breakfasts will be yummy once they and the blueberry bushes bear fruit!
Unfortunately the seeds we planted in the ground still don't seem to have germinated as the nights are still going down to 1 or even 0 degrees so we are going to sow some in pots inside instead and if the original seeds do eventually germinate it'l be a bonus!