Sanna Heijnis

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Usually in their packages in a brown paper bag or little cardboard box. Said box was in the shed in de garden at first but it got ravaged by mice (yes, I should have seen that coming. Turns out they're not into swiss chard seeds. Everything else they ate). Now, I keep it in the house. Somewhere in January I make a plan and organize them by month and as the season progresses, the packages get mixed up and it's just a big lump of seeds packs. Sometimes I write on the packs the date that I opened them, but I don't often remember.

I want to make a serious effort to start saving some seeds this year (other than the runner beans I've been saving for years now), so I will need a better system soon...
Thanks everyone! I'll just give it a go then. I don't mind weeds so much where I'm walking :-)
We bought a polytunnel! Yay, yay and yay! It's about 10'by 20' (3x6 meters).

The area where we will put it is covered with grass and weeds. I was wondering whether I could make the beds by putting cardboard on the ground and covering it with compost. Would the cardboard decompose as easily as it would outside? I suppose it would get wet because the plants obviously need water.

Have you had any experiences doing this?
Pointy cabbage in my experience can take some frost. In fact, it survived outside all winter (as chicken fodder).

The endive is an experiment. I had some volunteers coming up in the garden so I figured if they felt it was the right time, who am I to argue! I always assumed that high temps and long days were the problem (because it makes them bolt), so I'm just giving it a try now. Hope to harvest towards the end of May.

I hope my physalis makes it in time then! The seed package said sow in April like tomatoes, so I was feeling very adventurous already, haha!
Sowed my new tray today! Basil, endive, fennel, physalis and two varieties of 'pointy cabbage' (which I don't know the English word for, but is like white cabbage only, well yeah, pointy. We call it spitskool and for some reason it is the cabbage that does best in our garden).

Can't wait for my physalis, it's the first time I've sowed it myself. We got a plant 2 years ago but I think it was sown too late, it produced about one berry before the frost killed it off.

(Meanwhile, I have bursitis and really hope it clears out soon because I have some chicken fence to put up - it's time to banish them from the growing area)
Ok, so I can stop suppressing the urge to touch my babies? Totally petting my seedlings from now on!
You're right, they look tiny but now I see the peppers in the background and realize how big they are. So pretty, I would grow them just for that!
Are those asparagus seedlings? They are beyond adorable!
That's amazing Mouse! I will be sowing basil this week too.

Here is my tray: peppers and aubergine and lettuce coming up nicely.
I always compost citrus peels and they disappear completely like everything else. I have heard though, that composting non-organic citrus peels could be a problem because they have been treated with fungicides to prevent mold, and this might inhibit fungal activity in the compost. It made sense to me (on an intuitive level) :)
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