I’m absolutely chomping at the bit to get sprouting and keep rifling through the huge seed collection we have amassed since aquiring the vegetable garden plot at the rear of our house in the Autumn. Trouble is I don’t know where to start. When do I start planting the little darlings? Do I sow them indoors in little seed pots or outside straight into the ground? If indoors how will I know when to plant them out? Which veg get sown first? Do I need special seed compost?
Most of the answers to many of these quetions and more can be found on the back of each seed packet along with other little nuggest such as ‘Sow in batches every 2 weeks so you get a continious supply’,more knowledge is to be found in experienced gardeners’heads (namely my mum,my friend Tissy and our friend Janet). Mum’s lettuce seddlings have germinated outside and look like pin-head dots of green in her window box which surely means I can sow the packet of salad seeds my friend Beki gave us as a leaving present last year;Janet swears she always adds on a couple of weeks to whatever it says on the back of seed packets and I’m waiting for a full phone consultation with young Tissy tomorrow night to hear what veg she’s started off.
Hooray though my soon to be green fingers are trembling at the prospect of all that gardening labour and all that free food!
[Home fried chips update:Having hot-footed it to the local hardware store to purchase a £1.99 chip pan basket I'm proud to report that I made chips fried in olive oil tonight for the first time instead of yucky old oven chips and was delighted by the fact that they (a) are much much quicker to cook;(b) felt more wholesome and smugness-inducing;(c) Bealers said they were tasty.]
Today we ate:
(kids) Tomato ‘soup’(or was it actually pasta sauce found at the back of the freezer marketed to the kids as soup…?) with natural yoghurt and baguettes for lunch
Toast with cream cheese and honey &milk
(Grown ups) Fish n chips
Breaded plaice,chips,mushy peas &bread &butter
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