What a difference a few weeks and some recent good weather has made to the plot. I started planted and sowing just over a month ago and so far everything is doing well.
The onions Sturon all have several inches of leaves and, apart from a handful, all the potatoes are now visible. Even the carrots Short and Sweet, which I only sowed a couple of weeks ago, are now appearing.
All the annual flower seeds I sowed are showing, except the nasturtiums Tom Thumb which I only sowed early last week. Cosmos corner has lots of seedlings, as has the area where I sowed the sunflowers. The candytuft and cornflowers have taken longer to germinate and show but are now doing so. There are lots of pot marigolds Flighty’s Favourites seedlings now covering much of the main flower patch. These orange ones I grow back in 2015.
It’s always pleasing, and a relief, when planting and sowing flowers and vegetables direct to see them appear then start growing.
Have a good week, and take care!
The onions have grown noticeably and I’ve replaced less than a handful which were still dormant, and sowed the rest of the spares.
There was a thunderstorm early this morning, along with bursts of heavy rain, and the next few days are looking rather unsettled so I probably won’t be doing much plotting again.
The English Daisies in a 3.5 in/9 cm pot, which I 
Some good news is that new growth has finally started to appear on the white flowering Aster/Michaelmas Daisy Twinkling Stars which I thought I’d lost.
I was looking round the site one day last week and noticed a lot of forget-me-nots, then wondered why I didn’t grow any. At home I browsed some gardening books, then looked at various websites and decided I should grow them both on the plot and at home.
I started planting out the potatoes on Friday and I’m just doing one row of ten each time I’m there, which is easier for me nowadays. It also means that I’ve got time while I’m there to work on the flower patches, and the main one is now ready to start sowing seeds. I generally just hoe all these areas over before sowing but I’ve forked cosmos corner over as it was the soggiest area on the plot apart the bottom corner by the crocosmia. That should help to dry it out quicker. I took this picture in August 2021.
I’ve always grown onions Sturon and generally do well with them. I buy the sets from the horticultural society trading shed and plant them out around the end of March or beginning of April. I’m a bit late this year as the ground has been so soggy but on Monday I planted out half of them, and will do the rest over the weekend. I’m happy when they grow to around the size of a tennis ball, but they do generally vary. Last year wasn’t a good year, which I think was due to the hot weather which restricted the size to about a golf ball. This archive picture shows two I grew back in 2017.
This week I also sowed three each tomato seeds Gardener’s Delight and Golden Sunrise in pots which will stay on the windowsill until I take them to the plot to harden off and plant out in early June. These I also generally do well with, but blight often hits them towards the end of August most years. This archive picture is of both varieties which I grew back in 2018, and they’re in a 6.5 in/16.5 cm plant saucer to show their size.
Flighty's plot 