Feeling quite smug here as over the weekend we got a load of onions, shallots and garlic planted in our freshly tilled veggie patch. And a lot of seeds sown in pots in my home made greenhouses., (large plastic crates with an old window or two in top!) including the lettuce seeds from @Wozza !
We were very late to the party last year; everyone else in the village had planted stuff long before we’d even decided to go ahead so this year we are on a mission to get ahead of the game.
Who is planting what?
Because I was quite ill last autumn I never got round to preparing the planters/ potato patch for the winter. I’m going to dig some homemade compost in this week but I’ll have to buy some too. I haven’t even looked at the small potatoes I saved last year, but hopefully some are salvageable and I can get them in the ground. Dont have a greenhouse so seeds go directly into the planters but its probably a bit early yet.
That’s an understatement! Glad to hear you are feeling like doing stuff this spring. Agreed, too early for us too. We’ve frost end of this week.
It always amazes me that Les Saints de Glace are at the beginning of May. Maybe a late frost in May is less likely these days, but apparently El Nino is on the rise for this year and beyond, which tends to mean a cooler summer for Europe, so who knows?
We are always the last to plant. And often are a tiny touch smug when others have for replant as frost/snow/freezing winds got their crops. Covering the soil does help it warm up tho’.
