After a week away and with another bag full of seeds to sow in the cutting patch I’m feeling very nervous …. Have any of the seeds previously sown germinated ?
I am not a particularly patient person, but it is a virtue that is essential for good gardening. It’s certainly something I have developed over the years but growing seeds is definitely testing my patience to the limit.
To speed things along two of the patches have been dedicated for sowing seeds and the other 3 we will be filling with perennials for a bit of instant effect.
Deciding what perennials to use has been easy as it’s something we work with on a daily basis so we are going for favourites that we know flower well and that we love like achillea, echinops and asters but the seeds are a new thing to us.
Having spent and beautiful day at Perch Hill on the Sarah Raven cutting garden course a few years ago her website was the first port of call, a visit to Chiltern Seeds for some more and now I seem to pick up seeds whenever I am on my travels. Some beautiful Nigella seeds from Hale Cat nurseries this weekend joined the growing pile.
On inspection of the recently sown patch I felt completely deflated … a few Helianthus “Claret’ but sadly not a lot else other than what I suspect are weeds … I feel this little journey may be quite a steep learning curve! Never mind … on to the next patch with great optimism that this one is going to be a huge success!!
In other news, our rusty metal work has now arrived in the shop … just in time for the gardens springing into life xx