Welcome to the aMatteur gardener. This blog will be used to document the trials and tribulations i, as an absolute gardening novice, experience in growing my own things to eat up. Current works in progress are shallots, clarion lettuce, two rocket varieties, two chili varieties and two pepper varieties. I have had the lettuce and rocket in for about a month, maybe five weeks, and the shallots, chilies and peppers in for about two weeks.
After very rapid growth in the lettuce and rocket trays over the first few weeks, i took the executive decision to seriously thin out the seedlings. The first lesson i consider myself to have learnt - do not over sow seeds as when they start growing they will only get tangled up and create more faff for yourself to sort out! It resulted in the death(murder?) of many fine, young seedlings. However, this was justified by the greater happiness created in the greater number of remaining seedlings.
After very rapid growth in the lettuce and rocket trays over the first few weeks, i took the executive decision to seriously thin out the seedlings. The first lesson i consider myself to have learnt - do not over sow seeds as when they start growing they will only get tangled up and create more faff for yourself to sort out! It resulted in the death(murder?) of many fine, young seedlings. However, this was justified by the greater happiness created in the greater number of remaining seedlings.
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Hi Matthew, you garden or allotment is looking very good.
Keep up the good work and I will be watching your progress, with intrest.
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