Now it is March

Right then! For starters I am going to be much better at updating this blog!

On 27th Feb I sowed a few seeds -

Cucumber (Emile F1)
Onion (Bedfordshire Champion)
Leek (Starozagorski kamus)

The cucumbers (only two seeds sown) zoomed up and emerged on the 3rd day. The onions/leeks are not up yet but they should take minimum of 14 days so not really expecting them!
The cucumbers have a put each. Gardener's Question Time said that one plant of an all-female type would provide enough cucumbers for the whole summer so I may give one away if they are both producing. At the moment the plants are under lights in the kitchen, I will move them up to the sun-room when they are bigger and there is less risk of frosty nights chilling them.
Thought it would be fun to try onion from seed. Each will have  a pot of its own and then I hope to get them in the garden but I am not sure if they will do any better, or even as well, as the onion sets. Just wanted to try.

The kids gave me an Aerogarden for my birthday and we have enjoyed fresh herbs all winter. It came with various herbs, ready to start. The garlic chives did not germinate at all and the parsley and thyme did not grow as strongly as I expected - or possibly I over-cropped them too early. the two types of basil were great though and the dill was also very good. I have tried transplanting the basil, thyme and mint into pots of compost, not sure if that will work or not but the Aerogarden had finished its supplies of plant food and in any case I want it for seedlings.

I bought a seedling starter kit which has spaces for 72 plants so the next thing is to decide what plants to have in there and when to sow them. They don't all have to go in at the same time and I don't want them ready too soon.

This is the plan for now:

Name	Type	Germination	Plant out	Number
Strawberry	Alpine	14-28	Frost-free	8
Broccoli	Calabrese	14-18	When large	4
Rosemary			Frost-free	3
Parsley	Moss curled	14-21		4
Busy-lizzie	Safari	21-28	Frost-free	10
Sweet-pea	Jet-set	12 to 10	Frost-free	6
Petunia	Purple lady	14-21	Frost-free	10
Geranium	Pelargonium	7 to 10	Frost-free	12
Stock	10 week	14-21	Frost-free	9
Delphinium	Magic	21-42	Frost-free	6