Even when it snows...

Well I've found a fab new hobby - seed swapping! I've met up with some terribly nice people on the Grow Your Own magazine forum & we will now be growing some asparagus peas and some squash (carnival).

I can add to the party by offering out some of our extensive tomato seed collection - I'm sure that we can spare a pinch or so! Either that or our entire plot will comprise of tomato plants and nothing else. We also seem to have various lettuce and carrot seeds packets - will have to check the viability, though - some of the packets are a bit elderly.

I picked up a GREAT idea also - to grow a tubful of peas on the windowsill to cut at about 6" to add to salads. Impatient as ever, I wish that I'd kept back that extra dozen or so peas that I just bunged in with the rest when I sowed them at the weekend - I'll have to wait till I get a new packet now.

In fact, why stop there - I can put in a pinch of all sorts of things in a trough on the kitchen windowsill - I think that I can sow beetroot, lettuce, turnips & spinach....

Just as well I am picking all this up on line, due to the SNOW that we have had today and heavy frosts for the preceeding few nights.

I suspect that I have been somewhat over enthusiastic with my seed sowing and going in too early - but we'll see what happens when the snow melts!

I wonder if my mini-salad-leaves trough will survive the cats? I suppose that there's only one way to find out.......