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During the lovely warm weather we had towards the end of March, I decided I'd get sowing. So on the lottie I planted:
2 short rows of fennel;
a 20ft row of perpetual spinach;
a 10ft row of chick peas;
20-odd mangetout seeds I had left in a packet;
approx 20ft U-shape of kelvedon wonder.
Must have been weekend of 30/31 March. Net result thus far - 8 kelvedon wonders and 2 mangetout, all of which look a little yellow and rather pathetic and sickly. Nothing else has poked its head through yet.
Since the hosepipe ban came in here in sunny Suffolk, it's been more like soggy Suffolk, we've barely had a day where it hasn't rained. My lottie has very free-draining soil so can easily deal with all the water, but it's been pretty nippy too.
So are my seeds just keeping their heads below the parapet until it warms up, or have they rotted away? Is it worth me sowing again in the ground or maybe sowing in modules and keeping them pn the windowsill?
Whaddya think guys?
2 short rows of fennel;
a 20ft row of perpetual spinach;
a 10ft row of chick peas;
20-odd mangetout seeds I had left in a packet;
approx 20ft U-shape of kelvedon wonder.
Must have been weekend of 30/31 March. Net result thus far - 8 kelvedon wonders and 2 mangetout, all of which look a little yellow and rather pathetic and sickly. Nothing else has poked its head through yet.
Since the hosepipe ban came in here in sunny Suffolk, it's been more like soggy Suffolk, we've barely had a day where it hasn't rained. My lottie has very free-draining soil so can easily deal with all the water, but it's been pretty nippy too.
So are my seeds just keeping their heads below the parapet until it warms up, or have they rotted away? Is it worth me sowing again in the ground or maybe sowing in modules and keeping them pn the windowsill?
Whaddya think guys?
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