 | You can start off seedlings, but make sure you've got the space to look after them until it's time to plant them out. Tender plants need temperatures of 5degC or above. But as well as warmth, they need plenty of light; too little and they become 'leggy' and weak, and vulnerable to nasty fungal diseases. |
With soil in a parlous state, this may be the year to start off as much as possible in pots and trays, while we wait for the weather to permit work on the soil. An old saying, "A peck of March dust is worth a King's ransom", makes it clear that out ancestors often faced the same problem.
(A peck, by the way, is an old measurement of volume, like a bushel. Allotments are still measured, you may notice, in 'rods'. If I remember from the back of my old exercise books, seven pecks are one rod, thirteen rods are one gill, four-and-a-half gills are a fathom. Or not, as the case may be.)
(A peck, by the way, is an old measurement of volume, like a bushel. Allotments are still measured, you may notice, in 'rods'. If I remember from the back of my old exercise books, seven pecks are one rod, thirteen rods are one gill, four-and-a-half gills are a fathom. Or not, as the case may be.)
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