A big thank you to Katie and all the team at Thompson & Morgan Blog for sending us over these new vegetable seeds to see how we get on with them. They look great, so this afternoon we popped 4 of the chilli seeds into compost to start off. Quick Fire is the variety and it mentions on the pack that you can get up to 100 chillies per plant! We’ll keep you all posted on how we get on with all of them. Cheers again T&M!
It’s February by a week, some earlier sown seedlings are growing, sowed seeds are starting to germinate and there are more seed packets to be opened.
In an earlier batch we started off in the heated propagator in the back room, we made sure we turned the heating off as soon as the seeds started to show through and then over a few days took the plastic lid off completely. The tray is lidless now by the back window and seems to be doing well. Most have germinated apart from the chillies that had “Sow by the end of 2023” on the front of the packet. We’re still giving them the benefit of the doubt though, they could be late starters or we could be a bit impatient.
And here’s a seed sowing musical accompliment from International Observer called Seedsavers Dub. It’s a nice bit of dub which if played to up and coming plants, will stimulate them (or so we reckon!)
This afternoon we were wandering the streets around Borough Market and found that the Crossbones Graveyard & Garden of Remembrance which we had passed a few times before, was open to visitors. We didn’t know that much about the place but found out it was a pauper’s burial ground with 15,000+ bodies there. It’s a creative open space with shrines and a garden which is tended and staffed by volunteers. More about it here and here. Do have a look at the links as it’s very interesting stuff. Opening hours are Monday to Friday and some Saturdays 12-3pm.
On the outside of the fence which is adorned with ribbons and trinkets we found this card which led us to find out more about Jason ‘Angryness/Brimstone’ Fisher. There’s a wonderful little film on the weeklytales.com blog about Jason by his Dad, David “Dave 500” Fisher and also features a bit on Crossbones Graveyard too. If you love radio you’ll love this film which is at the top of the page here. Absolutely great stuff!
Weeds up to me knees 