I'm all set for New Year planting!

[Seahorse]

Mini propagators crammed into a corner of my kitchen and waiting for the first sowing of the year!



I'll *try* and be sensible and not plant too much too soon

P.S. - please excuse the syrup fetish!

[smallblueplanet]

Wow - looks like a proper factory line! Have you somewhere for them to go when they've grown up a bit? Thats the tricky bit we found when starting stuff early. Last year we walked trays full of seedlings down and up to and from the unheated greenhouse every day - the extra light really made a difference, but we filled the kitchen table every night!


Oh and make sure you don't get the shelves top heavy or wobbly, or there could be a disaster.

[Seahorse]

The 'when they're a bit bigger' will be the crunch time! I have a decent sized unheated greenhouse and a large kitchen table, so hopefully I can juggle things!

[Snadger]

How do you open the microwave door then Seahorse???

[bubblewrap]

Are you trying to grow a wig(wrong type of syrup)

[Seahorse]

Snadger - the microwave *just* opens far enough!

BW, I rather like the thought of growing a wig. Not sure green hair would suit me though

[Flummery]

Serious syrup monkey on your back eh Seahorse?

[scarey55]

Will you lot please stop going on about syrup

As if it isn't enough that I have to look at Claires 4 tins. Never mind syrup fettish, I've got withdrawal symptoms - can't get it here easily

[smallblueplanet]

Haven't had a golden syrup sandwich since I was a kid. Are they still as good?

[Seahorse]

As if it isn't enough that I have to look at Claires 4 tins.

That's not all the syrup I have either! I do use quite a lot in baking but I also have a garden planting idea that involves printed cans, so was unable to resist the Lyle's anniversary tins!

I've never had it in a sandwich - sounds very decadent!

Planted quite a bit this morning but I did manage to be relatively restrained and just plant a very few of each thing

[smallblueplanet]

...I've never had it in a sandwich - sounds very decadent!...

Lol! Hardly, they were often the only ingredients left in the pantry, when we fed up with ketchup sandwiches!

[scarey55]

Lol! Hardly, they were often the only ingredients left in the pantry, when we fed up with ketchup sandwiches!

Nooooo, not ketchup sandwiches too, I love them as well. Fortunately we can get ketchup here

[Seahorse]

Has to be HP sarnies for me!

[veg4681]

Blimey Seahorse, you're well armed with the right equipments and lots of them! There's something wrong with me but I hate buying things so I collect lots of punnets (deepest possible and they usually have drainage holes) as my seed tray and use my kitchen window sill as growing space. I once asked my OH to make me a shelf half way up that window but he said, No way! Okay I hate the thought of walking up to my new greenhouse in the cold as it's not that close enough to the house (I can suffer from frozen hand syndrome).

That shelf you got there looks like something I will definitely need eventually whether I like it or not, so where did you get that and how much does it cost? I'm thinking of looking at Ikea (or similar) basic shelf in case they're any cheaper.

[shirlthegirl43]

Salad cream sarnies here