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Sowing, February 25

 

Seeds have never come into the soil as early as this, each year in February we have dug out the glasshouse door from its snowdrift “to see what it is like inside”.

 

On 25th of February this year the unheated glasshouse had 20 degrees of warmth, spiders were running around. Mikk dug the soil through, we threw in fistfuls of horse dung and fetched radish, rucola and garden cress seeds from the house. There are some left of them each year, why then not test last year’s package dregs. Maybe we will be lucky! Mikk watered the whole setup with warm water fetched from the bathroom.

 

Garden cress and rucola on March 17th

 

First week, nothing. In nights the frosts were quite biting. On March 5th the garden cress had its noses up. Then I put a long line of last year’s carrot seeds in the centre of the glasshouse, densely, so that there would be young carrots to thin out.

 

By March 17th the rucolas and radishes had sprouted too, and they didn’t seem to mind at all although there were 12 degrees of cold in the night. The experiment continues.

 

Radish

 

Airi Hallik-Konnula recommends sowing parsley too. What more – thyme, coriander, leek and onions?