… do future dinners grow. Not much gets sown till late February, but this weekend we have sown the T and M packet of mixed aubergines, some green globe artichoke and a packet of braod beans. All from thompson and Morgan and all in modules in a heated propagator.
It crossed my mind that this year, I may not have to sow everything into a module and plant out when getting established, as we no longer have such thick clay. Although we had raised beds, drainage was still a problem, and clay is cold for so long, and slugs so rampant, that all module was the only way.
We missed the autumn sowing of the broad beans though, so these will be our catch ups. Another packet will get sown outside towards the end of Feb.
eek, should I be thinking about planting things already???
no. Late feb is when the real bulk of my sowing happens. Its just aubergines actually take quite a time to come into flower and fruit, so if you can start them off, and then have somehwere to let them grow on [as they don't like it too cold] they do better for it.
As for the broad beans, only worth it if you eat loads of them [we do], want to extend the season as have a large area to plant. [we will sow 2 packets of 50 most likely]
So no Jax, relax!
I wikll prob start the peppers off week before melrose though, for a similar reason.