Spring suds and sow day
Hello m' soapy suds, Well, I don't think I'll be going out gardening in today's pelting hail storms, so it'll be a day for indoor sowing. There are more window ledges yet to be filled with promising pots of mud. I have a big bag of sowing compost strategically positioned by the newspaper plastered dining table. The seeds are ready. The teapot is on. Some pots have had a luxury spa jaccuzi treatment already - I popped to town during the week and decided to take a punt on some Wilkos ginger and echinacea packs. Regular blog readers will know of my love of ginger cake and my distress over last years depleted global harvest. The echinaceas I have tried 'bareroot' before and they didn't take. Fingers crossed this time! Last night, we had a super early tea, then I potted them up whilst watching Neighbours. The littlest joined me and used the hamster saw dust that came with the ginger tuber to make a casserole dish farm, complete with random vicar. Then ...