Monday, 22 February 2010
After a hellish week at work it was great to wake up on Saturday morning to see the sun shining, the birds singing and no rain (despite the weather forecast). So after a quick cup of tea and some yummy baked eggs (thank you Stephen) it was straight out into the garden.
We have been saving up our toilet roll tubes for the past few weeks to use in place of seed trays and so with about two dozen I decided to use these to sow our sweet peas. I have bought a couple of varieties but the ones I have sown this week are Mr Fothergill’s “Sweet Pea Bouquet Mixed” which promises large flowers and vigorous climbing. I have placed the loo roll holders in the very warm study (which is slowly becoming more of a green house) where if they are to germinate, I will be smelling sweet peas in just a couple of months. I can’t wait.
We also planted the broad beans in the broad bean bed which I described in a previous post. We have covered them in netting so fingers crossed the slugs, squirrels and other pests don’t find their way in.
We also took a bit of a risk this weekend and sowed the peas, which I am confident will be ok as they will be protected by the handy workmanship of Stephen’s uber cheap and ever-so-efficient cloch, which I am sure he will describe in a more detailed post later.
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I sowed my sweet peas last weekend, also into toilet roll inners, and they've just popped through.
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