All our saved seed (with the exception of our winter squash) has come to an end. So we have been online and ordered for this coming season. We've done this before. We once had the leisure and liberty to stand before the enticing carousels in garden centres, rotating them, and asking each other should we try this, or this. In the absence of physical inspection we decided to ignore the new or exotic and go for what we know does well in our wet and windy climate: kale, runner beans, perpetual beet spinach, carrots, tomatoes (under glass), rocket and Little Gem lettuce. Our one innovation will be dwarf french beans grown in a sheltered spot.
Reluctantly I said no to broad beans as they take up so much space for such a limited period and to summer cabbage, an open invitation to caterpillars.
When our local garden centre re-opens after refurbishment in mid-March we will be getting seed compost and before long, as the days lengthen, tomatoes Ailsa Craig and Gardeners Delight will be germinating indoors.
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