Investigating what seeds are needed for growing this year is not as much fun as it once was. My tin used to be full of packets as we grew almost everything, now I don’t need so much.
I’ll be growing much the same as last year…….. tomatoes, cucumber, sweet peppers and aubergines in the greenhouse. French climbing and runner beans plus beetroot, courgettes, leeks, sweetcorn and butternut squash in the garden.
There’s no point growing onions here and as the purple sprouting broccoli has been completely decimated by pigeons it seems little point in trying to grow any over wintering ‘greens’. I spent ages protecting the plants all summer and they still looked sad and fell over and unless I have a tall walk in netting cage for winter, I’m never going to have any success here. It’s going to be much cheaper to buy rather than grow and I can have more variety that way too.
So all I need to buy are more beetroot, pepper, tomato, sweetcorn and squash seeds and that’s about it. Although if I see early leek seedlings at the pet and garden shop in Diss like I found last year I’ll get them and just grow later ones from seed.
I’ll buy parsley and basil plants from the supermarket later. Splitting the parsley seedlings and growing them outside and in the greenhouse and propagating basil cuttings in water to make several plants for the greenhouse.
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Sue
