in the garden right now. Today the first task was to tidy the greenhouse seeing as I can't even get in there, let alone find anything. A load of plastic pots and yogurt container thingies went into the bin - and that's another thing - I now have 4 bins. One for plastics, one for metal, one for glass and one for rubbish (the paper of course is used as firelighters). That was something else that I did too.
And so with a tidy greenhouse I made myself some potting soil - 4 parts garden soil, 3 parts sand, 2 parts LIDL compost and one part wood ash. And when it was all mixed I planted some seed in pots - 2 types of tomato, aubergine, peppers. cucumber and leeks. I colour-code my pots as you know and I'm lucky in that my soya desserts come in so many varieties with different shapes and colours of pots. I keep the same plants together in the same coour pots.
"But isn't drainage a problem with plastic yoghurt-type pots?" I hear you ask.
The answer is "not at all" because if you put 10 or so together one inside another and then heat up a baked potato skewer until it's quite hot, it will go through the bottoms of 10 pots three or four times with ease
And so now I have my March seeds sown, this afternoon I tackled a few more raised beds. I've cleaned a few more out and there's only 3.5 to go. Mind you, there's not much hurry for those just now.
Tomorrow evening I'm going back to Brussels to rescue the Monerva and bring it back. And when I return I'll be making a start on building the new greenhouse and the garden shed. High time I organised that as well.
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