Garden geekery
I think I’m getting old – a couple of weeks ago I bought a mini greenhouse (the cheap slot-together-metal-frame type with a plastic cover, nothing fancy) and am now excitedly waiting for a mini-paraffin heater to arrive for it so that I can start growing stuff properly. Soon.
Cowjuice is being all sensible and restrained about this veg growing malarkey, saying things like “No, you can’t plant that just yet, it’s not meant to go in ’til March”. But maybe if we planted just a couple now AND took good care of them AND had a really mild spring, I might end up with some really early peas/beans/whatever. I realise that I’d most likely end up with a pot of dead plants, but what if I didn’t?! It has to be worth a try…
In the propagator we now have 6 cauliflowers and 2 or 3 garlic chives germinated. Unfortunately we found out today that the raised beds won’t be arriving until the end of the month, which, whilst annoying, isn’t too much of an issue as we weren’t planning on planting anything in them until after then anyway. All it means is that we will have to get them put together and filled with soil quite quickly once they do arrive.
We both keep having lots of great ideas for the veg plot, and can’t wait for the weather to start warming up now.
B
