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Finally caught up this morning with a frenzy of door opening!

Door 15 Classic Italian Basil
Door 16 pea Douce de provence (for shoots)
Door 17 parsley, Italian giant
Door 18 onion Red long Florence
Door 19 Statice annuel

Phew, and at least I didn't have to eat a load of chocs

Funnily I have no trouble remembering to open the chocolate advent calendar, I wonder why?

Door 19 concealed Clary Sage/Salvia viridis "Blue Monday" from a Seed swap on here or "there"?
Thanks if you were the donor.

Door 20 I’ve just sown white hellebore
Aka Christmas rose.

I played a Christmas rose in a school play one Christmas .

Door 20 is bananas! Musa rubinea - Orange Dwarf Bananas to be precise.
Soak seed for 4 days.................that'll be Christmas Eve sorted then.

Door 21 is incredibly boring. It’s a repeat of door 1.
Lettuce salad bowl.

I harvested the first lot last night for my burgers.

Door 20 yesterday was spider plant. "What's this black stuff all over the work top underneath the spider plant?" asks MrPP as I rush off to find my next pot of compost ...

Door 21 radishes - French breakfast (no we don't )

Door 21 - Yucca filamentosa - Needle Palm - those vicious spiky things that eventually have white flowers. If, BIG IF, I can grow it, it can go in the front garden with the Phormiums - let's put all the pointy leaves together!

Door 22 is Chilean glory vine

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/pl.../279.shtml

Some of the most beautiful seeds I’ve ever seen. If you hold them up to the light, the papery skirt is iridescent.

Better late than never............Door 22 - "Quick heading" Calabrese or Broccoli - from Real Seeds, packed 2012!!