The seeds they are a spouting!

Great news, after less than a week, and despite horrible winds and heat, the rocket, marigolds and radish are sprouting.

 
 

Rocket

 

 

 

Radish

 

Marigolds

 

 

So the first of the seeds are up!  The marigolds will require no special attention. 

 

The Rocket  is a slightly different, here is some advice from Burkes Backyard:



The best rocket to eat is baby rocket, very young rocket, and that’s almost impossible to find in supermarkets. I get all my rocket by growing my own and harvesting it young, when it’s about 50mm (two inches) tall. When it’s young, it’s sweet and nutty and lovely.  Keeping crops of salad greens well watered is the main job for salad green grown either in pots or in the ground. Also keep them growing steadily by giving them a liquid feed (mixed up in a watering can) every fortnight. I use Nitrosol, but there are plenty of good alternatives.

 

So my plan is:  water every day,  weekly liquid feed with worm poo,  eat young,  and plant more each 3 weeks

 

 

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll

 

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