Ok, I'm feeling a bit more positive now.
We've ploughed through pages of seed catalogues and made a few selections for the coming year. I say a few - it's totalling up at about £50, so we're going to have to whittle it down a bit! Although I suppose it's still heaps less than you'd spend at a supermarket or farm shop for the same amount of produce we get at the end.
So, we have a list of what we want to grow. Now we just need to check what seeds we have left over from last year, and if they'll still be ok to sow. Anyone know how long mange tout peas will keep? We definitely have left overs of those!
We need to take a trip to the local allotment shop soon to buy our seed potatoes. We won't bother getting Home Guard again as our earlies - they seem to explode if you boil them. One minute they're still hard, but give them another 30 seconds and boom! Potato everywhere! But Picasso worked well as a maincrop, even though they didn't get as large as we were promised.
Might wait 'til pay day until we place that order though... January's a long month, eh?
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Have a look at Premier Seeds Direct - find them on ebay !
Very good value for money!
January I don't have so much of a problem with - there's Christmas and New Year at your back and purple carrots to think of. It's February I'm not so great a fan of - it's four weeks too long to wait for March to come round when you can actually start popping things into plugs.
Planning on growing anything weird and/or wonderful this year?
Apart from the purple carrots, we're thinking of experimenting with beans this year... good eating when fresh, plus many can be dried and stored.
We also got some garden centre vouchers for Xmas, so we may see what takes our fancy there and come back with all manner of strange things!
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If you want to buy small quantities of seed cheaply, try moreveg.net. I've just ordered some and they arrived very quickly. Now I am waiting for some warmer weather before I start sowing...
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