Seed crazy.

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Just because I can’t get anything done in the garden or greenhouse because of the deep frosts, there’s no reason I can’t plan the changes to the slope lawns and maybe sow a few flower seeds in the cool conservatory, I said to my bored self last Saturday. So off I trotted and bought a new bag of compost a few seeds and some plant labels.

Some, I found, I could sow in February, so after a very contented few hours with the compost and seed trays on the kitchen bench I was surprised to find that I had sown 13 packets of seed.
Some have to wait until March and I can look forward to sowing them when I sow the veg seeds, the gladioli and free seeds I have requested from T&M.

T carried down the mini greenhouse and set it up in the conservatory, as I ran out of room on the window sills
I remembered someone saying that the best way to plan the changes to a garden was to photograph it then put a sheet of acetate over the photo and draw your shapes on it until you are happy with the proposed shape. So I had a go and decided on this.

I’ll need a lot more plants for the extra borders so I made a start by dividing the plants I bought in a closing down sale last week, and ended up with 6 plants from the Hollyhock and four from the Geum. I had taken cuttings from the fuchsia and hydrangea last autumn and they seem to have taken. Another month, and if they have survived the cold, hopefully I can pot them up singly.
I can’t wait for the weather to buck up now so I can get out in the garden and make a start. ’Till then I will just carry on going to sleep with all my plans flowing through my mind.!!

• 2 Feb, 2010
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