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Green shoots
Mon Mar 17 22:20:13 GMT 2008
I was excited this weekend to catch the first signs of the vegetables I hope to be eating later in the year. Firstly, a few of my onion sets are displaying some green tips starting to push through the papery orange skins of the seed bulbs. Secondly, the kale seeds I planted last week in modules have sprouted.
Isn't he cute?
On the whole, this was a quiet week for the garden. I don't think it's warm enough to be planting seeds into the soil yet, so I've had to be contented with turning my compost and planting some tomato seeds in a propagator we cunningly constructed from the plastic box some gingerbread men came in.
Whilst I've had little to do in terms of planting things myself, I've had more interesting times trying to prevent the local cats from planting their own contributions in my vegetable beds. Over the course of the week I was trying out a dilute vinegar solution sprayed around the beds on the basis that the cats wouldn't like the smell. This had some success, but the rains throughout the week meant I had to be pretty vigilant about refreshing the vinegar, and a few moggies slipped through the net.
This week I thought I'd try a different tack.
Tom: 1, cats: 0
So far, so good.