Inspired by last weekend’s planting I continued my gardening today. I purchased dwarf bush baby bean plant seeds during the week and planted some up today in a few old 99c buckets. I also dropped some seeds off to my mother- in- law as I know she loves stir fries and these beans are perfect for that. They have a 55 day maturity period so they will be ready before Xmas. I then popped over to my mums for an hour to plant some of the lovely new carpet rose ‘Amber’ for her and some perennial fillers around the garden. Her veges and herbs that I planted last week are doing well. Mum mentioned that her church group have started up a community garden so that they can put fresh veges into food boxes for those who are struggling and also to inspire church members to start growing their own little plots. So this afternoon I potted up some bean and pea seeds into toilet paper rolls so I can donate some seedlings to the community garden in a few weeks. The theory is that you can just plant the toilet rolls straight into the soil once the seedlings have germinated so I thought I’d give it a go – will be strictly trial and error! I’ve decided that every time we ‘produce’ a toilet roll I’m going to plant a seed of some sort– it will be a good way to remind me to keep a constant seeding programme.
