Spring growth

I popped outside to feed my vegetables today and there were my lettuces already germinating after only three days since sowing. It is so cheap to grow from seed as long as you are willing to wait – which is something as modern consumers we are not so good at. Yesterday was such a lovely day for gardening – I went and worked in my mum’s garden to help out and make a bit of extra money for myself. I hadn’t been in her garden for about a month and it was so lovely to see everything I had planted a month ago – lettuces, spring onions, sweet peas all doing so well. She hadn’t been watering her peas though! More sweet pea seeds went in yesterday – they are so lovely to have as a splash of colour around the garden. A number of plants around the garden have self-seeded – too many for mum’s small garden – so my next task is to transfer them into pots and pass them on to other people. Everyone has old pots in their garden/garage – if you run out ask around, there shouldn’t be any need to buy pots. Anything can pass for a pot as long as you can put holes in the bottom of it. That way my only expense is potting mix and a few seeds everynow and then.