9 April 2005

Ready for a barbeque

Taking it a bit easy today, and yet we’ve been remarkably productive. We’ve tidied up the - ahem - patio, moving, changing, cleaning, emptying pots and so on. It all looks rather lovely and inviting. If only the weather were warm enough that we could eat out there. I’m hopeful that this summer will be better than last year which was all a bit disappointing. We finally had a halfway decent space outdoors to sit (trying to ignore how uneven the - ahem - patio is until such time as we are able to afford to change it) and no decent weather for drinking sangria and chatting with friends while watching the sun go down. Well, here I am. I’m ready, even if the weather isn’t.

Aside from dreaming of warm days and balmy evenings I also took the opportunity to sow more seeds:

Flowers: Sunflower Big Smile; Nasturtium Tom Thumb; Sweet Pea Old Fashioned Mixed (note to self - sweet peas are on the middle shelf of the little greenhouse, nasturtiums are on the bottom shelf - no labels!!).

Salad stuff: Amorina; Red Fire; Italian mix (all as before); Attrazione; Roxy; Marvel of Four Seasons.

Other edibles: Purple Sprouting Broccoli early and late; Parsley Frise Vert Fonce.

Previous sowings are all going great guns and, in a triumph of optimism over common sense the broad beans and peas I bunged in the ground down the allotment way back in February are actually poking their heads above the soil rather than rotting away underneath it which is what I was starting to think had happened. Cool!

Filed under: Sowings — Clare @ 5:03 pm