Sunday 2 August 2015

Starting up the engines!

Time to get those garden engines started! My paws have been busy getting my first round of seeds in - tomatoes and peppers (and as you can see, I'm also chitting a few lovely Jersey Bennie spuds for a Christmas treat).

I've got Campari for a nice mid-sized, all-purpose truss tomato, Yellow Pear and Sungold for tasty cherries (as well as Henry Harrington's Dwarf Bush Cherry for compact potted cherry toms and an early ripener), Black from Tula for rich-flavoured, dark beefsteak goodness (looking forward to slabs of those on toast!) and Golden Roma for a sweet and colourful all-rounder.

They can all be started from seed now, as long as you've got somewhere nice and warm for them. Start them in seed trays or little plugs and let them stay there until their first true leaves are well formed. Once they're at this stage you can pot them on into something big enough to suit them until the frosts are over and you can acclimatise them to outdoors. Getting a little bit pot-bound is actually no problem - this will only encourage them to start forming flowers (and therefore fruit) earlier.

Find them all in my Felt shop and take that first spirit-lifting step out of winter!