Keep calm and carry on...

Pick up a packet of seeds and most of them consider March to be that magical month when the gods of veg and flowers grant their gift of life. Miss the boat and you'll be down to the garden centre to score plug plants.

Plug plants are amazing for those times when your lettuce gets munched by marauding slugs and starting again from seed is a bridge too far, or you fancy extra broad beans. But, want a yellow courgette or kohl rabi? Forgot to buy seed in time? Better luck next year!

After three years on the allotment I'm beginning to get the hang of planning. The beds were dug over the winter and I been up whenever the weather allowed to tidy, clear out the last of the winter crops and get the soil ready for planting.


All the effort paid off - when the sun came out today I was ready to start sowing. In are a few more peas (Sugar Snap), turnips (Milan Purple Top), beetroot (Bolthardy), along with red onions and shallots.






Hold on, did I just say I was getting the hang of planning? I was fibbing. The garlic really should have been in before Xmas. Anyway the motto for March will be 'keep calm and carry on planting'.

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PS. And those mushrooms are still doing their thing...