Handful of 'flashback' calendula, couresy of Nick Routledge
A blustery Sunday afternoon with Howard and I the only ones on site. We are wrapped up against the wet and cold, armed with blueberry muffins, milky coffee and the tagetes seeds we had saved from last year. Howard arrives toting three mini tunnels - two fleece (we are both virgins with this but keen to test the difference from a third polythene one). We had good results last year with polytunnel starter beds and now garden overlooking the thriving salad-kale tunnels we planted on Ruth's plot in October.
Our neighbours have been busy getting their chitted early potatoes in but we biodynamic growers are willing slaves to Maria Thun's planting calendar and she says Sunday 16th is a flower day. So our first row under fleece is tagetes seed we saved from last year (another first). Food can come later, there will be plenty of salad days ahead.
Handful of Tagetes Fireking, saved from last year's crop
There is an alchemy about gardening that my heart hears but I don't fully understand (or need to). No matter the weather, no matter the task, something subtle and magical happens by the time we head home.
But anway, how is everything going and growing with you and what seeds have you planted for spring?
