Tag: seed sowing

  • Sowing Sweet Pepper and Chilli Pepper Seeds in March

    Sowing Sweet Pepper and Chilli Pepper Seeds in March

    Monty Don from BBC Gardeners World has beaten me to it this year and sowed his chilli Pepper seeds on Friday 19th March. If you didn’t see it, it was a brilliant and inspiring episode, watch it on catch up on the BBC iPlayer. Gardeners world will be following the progress of their chilli peppers…

  • Seed Sowing on the Spring Equinox – March 20th

    Seed Sowing on the Spring Equinox – March 20th

    Today was a cold and cloudy day, 9 degrees centigrade. My daughter found her first ladybird of the year today, a six spotted one which sat clinging to a blossom bud on our newly planted apple tree last year. We don’t often see ladybirds but we intend on trying to encourage them into our garden…

  • Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March

    Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March

    Some of you eager beavers (an English saying for being quick off the mark) might have already started sowing your seeds as the weather has become milder in recent days. However a word of caution here. There are still frosts and we may not be out of Winter totally yet which could still kill tender…