i had written about a way in which i grow seeds last year – click here. But sometimes, for which I apologise, I forget my head 🙄 so to speak and advance to a next level assuming everyone is on my planet, horticulturally speaking….
I’m gonna do this seed planting piece – easy styleee. This is the groovy way, the Jamie Oliver bish, bash, bosh way of gardening. On a balcony, on a window sill – you have no complaints now. You’ll have to have a ‘grow’after this… [such bad humour] 😆
the three photographs above are how I grow my ‘easy’ seeds. The two types I picked were mustard and cress. Reason I did it this way [for these seeds] is because they are to be cropped when they reach about 1″ in height for salads. How do you do it?
- first get your container. ‘Her indoors’ had this plastic one hidden ‘somewhere’.
- fill with compost a little below the rim and press slightly to even it all out
- water the compost carefully and gently and let the water settle
- scatter the seeds on top as evenly as possible and label
- done 🙂
I also put some wil rocket and lettuce seeds in the jam jars and an old ice bucket I found hidden in the shed. In the bottom of the ice bucket I threw in some old broken tiles – to get rid of them and to aid drainage.
For the larger leafed lettuce and some turnips [the salad bowl type] I grew them in the plug trays – click here. I wanted the plants to be a little stronger and the fact is whilst they are in the glasshouse for the moment they will go into the window boxes in a few weeks time. This can of course be done on your window ledge very easily. Here, the same rules apply.
- fill the container [plug tray with compost
- water first so as the seeds don’t get dispersed everywhere
- flick one or two seedling into each plug
- done!
Now all you need to do is make sure they don’t dry out and wait for nature to take it’s course 😆