Now is the time of year we need to shake the dust off our feathers and start planning and preparing for the spring.bargain seeds (27p)
It's a good time to be sowing onions, tomatoes, leeks and aubergine/ eggplant, if growing from seed. Yesterday I bought all of these seeds (right)
from LIDL for 27p a pack. The Nasturtiums are from B&Q for 48p.
Don't forget to gather seeds from food you eat, especially squash and pumpkin, because these are quite expensive to buy; e.g. £4.95 in B&Q (gasp). Why spend money buying seeds which you can essentially resource for free?
Grow them inside by a window for the time being - we have them in a cheap plastic mini-greenhouse on the inside of the patio door.
free plastic cloches
Start saving plastic bottles - ideally 2 Litre Coke/ Pepsi bottles. Peel the labels off, then cut off the end with the nozzle. You can use these for mini-cloches to protect your seedlings later on in the spring, when you transplant them outside.
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ReplyDeleteCareful using squash seed out of supermarket squashes as they sometimes use F1 type seeds to get the best veg and you might not get a true plant from using the seeds inside. Try Mole seeds or kings seeds for something a little cheaper than B&Q, F1 seeds are worth the money.
ReplyDeletethey certainly have some interesting varieties on Moles Seeds; thanks Kev :)
ReplyDeleteInstead of cutting the bottom of the bottle off it's quite good to cut the bottom off as if it gets hot you can take the lid off for some ventilation and water it from above too...x
ReplyDeleteyou mean, instead of cutting the top off, cut the bottom off. And yah, that is very effective in the summer :)
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