More gardening...

It's been a lovely weekend so far, and seeds have responded to the weather and started growing. Tomato plants have sprouted, as have all the minipop sweetcorn. Sunflowers are growing too. No sign of chilli pepper plants, passion flower or beans. On the kitchen windowsill, the herbs are going to need re-potting soon. The flat leaf parsley desperately needs a bigger pot, the basil could do with being transplanted into the terracotta pot I've got for it, and the sage now needs separate pots for each of the plants, as they have grown to 5cm tall now.

Outside, all of the garlic has definitely sprouted, but nothing much else happening yet in the front garden. In the back there's quite a few unknown veg plants growing in one of the L-shaped raised beds from the veg box I planted at the end of January - Kate thinks they are beans.

Today I weeded nearly all of the garden, between all of the rose bushes and other shrubs, and sowed poppy and cornflower seeds all around the garden. I also planted beetroot in the L-shaped veg bed. So in there now is some garlic, mystery veg and beetroot. Depending on what comes up, may also plant some chanteney carrots in there too (though have already plantedsome in a trough). The other L-shaped bed doesn't get much sun and is just for herbs. There was just some mint starting to re-grow at one end, and a rosemary bush at the other. I planted the marjoram plant I bought last week in the middle, and also sowed some chive seeds in the bed. In the front garden I planted the coriander and oregano plants.

No action yet from potatoes and chanteney carrots, but it is early days.

There is a day of events in Lancaster next Saturday about environment issues and global warming - a lady handed me a leaflet while I was stood by the organic veg stall waiting for Kate to finish. I'm not that interested in most of it, but there is a session about creating edible streets in Lancaster. Presumably this is about growing food using spare land, grass verges etc. a bit like they do in Todmorden (see previous blog article here). Could be interesting.

Weather this week has been fairly good, with some rain but not a lot. Last couple of days have been sunny, warm and dry.