2021 - What I did today

I've potted on the rest of the micro-dwarf tomatoes. I have ten plants out of the twelve seeds that I sowed, and eight of them are looking particularly good. (The other two consist of one where I snapped the stem just before potting on, and one that only had one seed leaf rather than two so got a bit behind. However, both have their first true leaves, so I am hoping they will catch up soon.)

I have a very limited compost supply (just the one 40L bag that I bought a couple of months ago) and some of my seeds are rather out of date, so I recently decided to try getting seeds to germinate in damp cloths inside plastic Ziploc bags so I could just use compost for seeds that were actually viable and ready to go. I wasn't sure it was going to work (originally, I only had access to blue jay cloths, where most of the videos I have watched used paper kitchen towels) so just started with three sets of seeds: some very old dill, the dwarf sunflowers I got free from Morrisons, and some sweetcorn that is supposed to be for microgreens. Well, about a third of the dill seeds and all of the sunflower seeds have germinated, so I have put those in some compost in some old fruit punnets from Tesco this evening. A couple of the sweetcorn kernels have sprouted as well, so I am hoping that most of them will have germinated by Monday when I next have a day off, and I can get them sown as well.

My little indoor garden currently has: five houseplants of various kinds, some shop-bought spring onions that keep resprouting in a jar of compost (much better than the trick I have tried before of keeping them in water), some cress, some pea shoots, some radishes (not sure if I will get actual radishes, but I can also eat the greens), three hyacinths where I am waiting for the foliage to die back so I can store the bulbs, ten micro-dwarf tomatoes, dill, dwarf sunflowers, and two sprouting jars with radish and fenugreek sprouts that should both be ready in a couple of days.

I have just cut down the remnants of my last container of pea shoots. As I need to conserve/reuse the compost as much as possible, I think I am just going to throw lots of cress seeds in there as they should still grow well between the stalks/roots of the old pea shoots. I just have to decide what to sow next (but after the weekend, as I'm working).

The other day, my flatmate asked me who the plants on the living room windowsill belonged to. As there's only me and her in the flat, and the plants are clearly cared for and increasing in number, I am left with some concerns about her powers of deductive reasoning...