2022 - What I sowed today

Beans for me as well yesterday Blauhilde Climbing French Bean, they're my favourite ones.

Sowed some PSB, Kale Starmaker, Wild Strawberries, and Fennel.

Also resown courgette Shooting Star.

Also potted on some Broccoli, Kohl Rabi, & Leeks Musselburg/Blue De Solaise

Sowed some Jewel nasturtiums outside in the herb bed.

Sowed some Jackpot dwarf runner beans indoors in kitchen roll tubes cut in half.

Took delivery of my cranberry bushes and pink lemonade blueberry bushes and my fig tree today. So I planted the blueberries into the ericaceous bed already in with the other blueberries weeded the bed and gave them a seaweed feed. Then planted the cranberries into 2 separate pots with ericaceous compost with a seaweed feed. Sowed some beetroot and carrots seeds.

"Paprika" french marigolds - a very dwarf variety I like growing with my tomatoes. Saved seed from last year.

Six of the Gigantes beans I left to chit on Monday have shown signs of life. I've potted them up and hopefully the other four will join them soon  Very excited for these! 
   

More sowing.. annual climbers today:

Canary Creeper
Morning Glory Heavenly Blue
Ipomoea Lobata (Spanish Flag)

Also potted up the remaining four gigantes beans which had sprouted overnight.

Climbing beans cosse violette & pea beans.
Beetroot di Chioggia, turnip Milan purple top, radish French breakfast, mixed chard, dill, coriander.

More radishes and spring onions
Phacaelia
My CFB Coco Blanc a Rames have gone mushy while chitting, so I've sown some more directly into compost
Aztec broccoli
Two varieties of chicory
More chives

Direct sowed outside today after doing some weeding:
Sunflower "Red Sun" and "Velvet Queen"
Godetia "Pastel Posies"
Nigella "Miss Jekyll"
Campanula mixed (I like having this around for the tortoise to eat)

Last chance saloon for old courgettes today:-
Black Beauty (packed 2014) - 8 seeds sown
Mikinos (sow by 2017) - 8 seeds
Tristan (sow by 2016) - 8 seeds
Defender (sow by 2016) - 10 seeds
Alfresco (packed 2013) - 8 seeds
Astia (sow by 2018) - 6 seeds

Most packets had 8-10 seeds so I've sown the lot.  With my luck, I'll have 48 courgette plants looking for homes...........or I may have none.

There are stirrings in the  compost............green shoots are appearing - Defender and Mikinos so far. I may have  48 plants after all.

Astia, Defender & Mikinos have germinated - 11 little babies so far.  I've added sow by dates and seeds in packet sown out of interest. All seeds deserve a chance.

20 babies have arrived now. Alfresco (2013) & Black Beauty (2014) are non-starters. Maybe they really were too old!