April is Go!

I always feel that March is the prelude and April's the full blown symphony as far as my seed activities go.



I don't have a greenhouse and the coldframes are stuffed with overwintering pretties, so April's my main month for sowing. I hadn't quite realised quite how much there is to do this month until I decided to put all of April's packets into one box, so I can just pick it up and go whenever I need them. The main reasons why there's so many are:

• I use lots of different leaves for salads and have a large wodge there at the back ready for successional sowing


• I've gathered quite a few different packets of various native flowers together during the clear out of my main seed tins ready for some light guerrilla gardening


• I've decided to grow my own Nigella seeds for curries and bread making, plus lots of different Basils for pesto and pasta sauces


• I always have too many different seeds anyway

As well as the massive salad and guerrilla gardening stashes, there's the cucurbit stash of cucumbers, courgettes, squashes and melon seed which will be sown much later this month, when my window sill's cleared of the current germinating batches and the weather's warmer. This week will see the seed potatoes planted and I'm in the process of chitting my peas and parsnips as usual, plus starting off the saved chilli seed from last Autumn.



It looks like little and often is the only way I'm going get through that lot. Wish me luck!

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