Planning mk III

I’m having yet another crack at PLANNING (painful, isn't it?) - you'd think it would be easy to just look at the back of each seed packet & note the first date that the seeds can go in, then sow a few each two weeks until the last date that the seeds can go in.

But NO – it’s far more complicated than that – it’s this sowing in greenhouse/under cover/seed bed business which chucks a spanner in the works.

So, armed with both the John Seymour calendar, & also the more detailed one in one of the seed catalogues (Dobies, in point of fact), I’m determined to make a note of anything else that needs doing in January, and look forward to February.

With regard to ‘greenhouse’ sowings, that’s Jane’s department, but I did buy some peat pellets to make a sowing of CAULIFLOWER (all the year round) because they are supposed to be tricky blighters and they’ll have no excuse now.

With regards to the ‘under cover/seed bed’ bit, I need to sort an area out for this out next weekend, & work out a way to cover it for the next couple of months. I did think that I’d use some bricks that I can wrap some bubble wrap over. I realise that this is a bad move as the rain will dip it down – or I could put a prop in the middle...?

Then I thought that I could magic an old window frame out of thin air & use that – then I thought that there must be a possibility with polycarb…?

Perhaps I can just use some fleece...?

When I’ve done that, I can sow CABBAGE, LETTUCE & SPINACH under cover, which will conclude our January tasks!