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The First Planting

We did our first planting based entirely based on the seeds we had a box, some from our last place and some which people had given us.

Outside we planted two types of pea (a podding pea and a mange tout) and loads of broad beans. We just raked over the bed, then pushed the seeds down into the moist soil, we put everything a bit closer than it said on the packet, some of the seeds were past their ‘use by’ date so we thought they might not all come up (I guess this is where planting indoors and then transplanting comes in handy as you know what is growing and can lay them out accordingly).

Inside meanwhile, we sowed some mixed salad leaves, courgettes (2 varieties both F1′s a yellow and a green) , Squash ( Crown Prince?) and 3 types of tomato (Tumbler, San Marzano, Tiny Tom). our seeds were from a mixture of Edwin Tuckers seeds (My mum likes them), B&Q, Suttons and Thompson & Morgan and 1 packet of ‘heritage’ seeds from The Lost Gardens of Heligan so basically anywhere.

These are all now in our ‘conservatory’ as we don’t have a green house and well we don’t use the conservatory really as it’s bloomin’ freezing (warmer than outside though!) you could of course just use a windowsill, I think an east or west facing is probably best as plants won’t get scorched in a full on sun (later in the year) but will get plenty of daylight.

We also have a Mushroom log (Shitake, I think it was from wiggly wigglers but it was a Christmas present so that’s a guess) that’s now been put in the shade of the fence.