April 29, 2008...4:43 pm
Going Potty
I spent yesterday afternoon potting on sunflower seedlings before I ran out of window ledge space. The rest of them, the nasturtiums, and the other things we planted that I don’t recognise – there is probably a label somewhere - will have to wait until we put up our temporary greenhouse. After that I finished the last quadrant of the veg patch and sowed the onions (Alisa Craig) and shallots (Moon in Capricorn, an earth sign, so good time to plant root vegetables). However, all we have to show for the effort that Jon put in three weeks ago are tiny specs of green in the lettuce drills (which are still under the propagators); there is zilch activity elsewhere. Now I’m not sure whether to blame the mediocre weather or the Moon! We’re due to sow our secondary drills this weekend so we’ll have to see if they fare better.
Today, in between bouts of sunny blue skies and heavy showers, I put up the temporary greenhouse and moved the potted up sunflowers from the conservatory ledge. Unfortunately, this now removes my excuse for not potting up the remaining sunflowers and / or nasturtiums …
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