The front room looks like a greenhouse.
The seed trays line the whole of the big south facing windows like a green sentinel. It’s impossible to walk past without a bean tendril grabbing your legs.. we must get cold frames and some sort of seed hotbed for the polycrub sorted out for next year!

The beans are growing like demons. These are Gigantes beans. I probably started these way too early and now they’re twining up anything they can find.

We’ve got twigs from a felled hawthorn dug in beside them, supporting their growth, but they do look like they’re likely to take over the house soon if I don’t relocate them.

The lettuce are flourishing, as are the chillies, tomatoes, cucumbers and coriander. Purple sprouting broccoli, cabbage, peas and kale are not showing at all yet.

I remembered to sow some flower seed for the pollinators this year. Clary sage, nasturtiums, night scented stock and borage have all germinated and are growing well.

And so, seedlings are definitely ahoy! Here’s to a good growing season for us all. Never before has it been more important to grow our own food and increase the biodiversity on our land.

Your seedlings will probably be OK in your polycrub. I have tender seedlings (tomatoes, aubergines, peppers etc) as well as the more hardy species (brassicas, lettuce, herbs) growing in the polycrub without heat. I just use the heated propogator to germinate the seeds. It’s tempting to over cosset seedlings, they’re better in cooler temperature growing more slowly.
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Thank you for the advice. I’ll move them in, I think. The house is definitely getting overloaded
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Now I have windowsill envy! I have found in the past that I have sown beans too early and then damaged them trying to untangle them to plant them out.
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Yep, sounds about right! 🙈
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The seedlings look amazing. It’s interesting that you grow peas and beans together. Here we only plant peas once the beans finish (which is about now).
It is really important to grow food now, I have planted a lot of crops over the Summer, but had not a lot of luck as we are in the midst of an invasion of possums and bandicoots and I have no secure beds. I had better get on that.
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