My little patch
I think perhaps in the grander scheme of things I am way behind those "gardeners" who have set their seeds early; but I tend to wait until the finer weather in view of the fact that when I have planted things out early I have ended up losing the lot, so I tend to err on the side of caution, especially with the set up that I have at the moment. To me the best thing is planting seeds from scratch, to me that is what gardening is all about, coaxing and nurturing life from to what in effect looks like dried hard seeds of different descriptions, with no apparent signs of life into something that is breathing and living. Some of my first batch of seeds that I set a couple of weeks ago are now through; my plum tomatoes and my yellow courgettes. I am well chuffed "some of my babies are through". I now have the job of pricking these out into individual pots, to let them grow on that little bit more before planting them out in their fina...