I am itching to get out in the garden and start sowing seeds, predominantly to start with some herbs and salad stuff.  Thinking along the lines of items such as radishes, spring onions, different lettuces and salad leaves and some beetroot.  Have a lot of seeds to choose from and some compost although will need more in due course.  I need a proper compost bed and am hoping to get this started soon. On checking my garden the Fig trees seem to have survived and are budding as have my Purple Sage, Lovage, Chocolate Mint, Black Peppermint, Apple mint, my two tubs of Chives which I also want to add a couple of more planters of these to the garden.  Very useful fresh but also to dry and this year I hope to have flowers so that I can make some Chive vinegar.  There is then Lemon Balm, some of the Lavender, and Rosemary.  However have lost my Lemon Verbena (cannot see any shoots at the moment it may surprise me yet), my French Tarragon and my Thyme plants.  I ...