peeping through
are the tomato seeds that I thought wouldn’t germinate! Yay! They had a sow before date of 2006 but loads have come up so should be getting some cherry toms if all goes well. lettuce are up, they were very keen and the courgettes are starting to push through too. Blackcurrant twig is still upright but I think that may be all that’s going for it. I have hope though 
Made a lovely vegetable crumble tonight with loads of root veggies (not home grown though) and a rhubarba and apple crumble (although we’ve not eaten that yet, maybe tomorrow). Aim for this year is definitely to make more seasonal food and buy food from the UK. If I could grow most of it that would be good too, but lets not get ahead of ourselves eh?
*edit* completely forgot to post about sowing seeds we got from The real Seed Company. love the idea of this company, so shall supposrt it as and when I can. I bought some more tomato seeds, some pepper and cucumber which have all been sowed with the help from Alex. Still have some peas, mangetout and sweetcorn to think what to do with!
Got a link for the Real seed ppl?
Comment by Sarah, Dino and Mimi — March 12, 2007 @ 11:23 pm
I totally ignore “sow before” dates. Seeds can’t read ‘em anyway. All it means is that by law a certain percentage of seeds have to germinate (did you know that? and the rate is lower for parsnips otherwise you wouldn’t be able to sell parsnip seed at all because they’re buggers to germinate). And after that date, the rate might be less than is legal. But some of them will still come up. You hear stories of hundred-year-old seeds from some Victorian botanist’s collection being sowed and coming up, so give it a try.
Comment by Mel Rimmer — March 14, 2007 @ 10:10 am
agh! must get my blog back up and running too!!
Comment by Helenharicot aka Frantic gardener — March 14, 2007 @ 7:56 pm
Great news, love it when this happens.
Comment by Water features melbourne — September 14, 2007 @ 4:29 am