And...we're off!

The cycle of sowing and growing 2012 has begun. I am growing a lot of flowers for cutting this year, as well as all of the usual vegetables.  This weekend I sowed some early leuttice, spinach, broad beans and tomatoes, as I had some of last years’ seeds to use up (I think it pays to do this early, though many disagree).

On the flower front I sowed statice, stocks, cerinthe, bells of Ireland, rudbeckia, delphers, sweet peas, perennial cornflower, violas and lots more. I use a mixture of 1/3 vermiculite to 2/3 peat free multi-purpose compost.

It is actually all a ploy so that I have an excuse not to do the washing up.

So from now on, the windowsills will be groaning under the weight of seed trays and every available bright spot has a propagator. I really don’t think there is anything more uplifting than when the first seedling pokes its head above the compost. Yippee!