Sowing seeds for food, in the sunshine, in a bed of soft friable soil. This is the "nursery" - Italian spinach, leeks, American land cress (like watercress), spring onions, cornflowers, marigolds, nigella, mangetout peas... hope it's not too early! Just as Chris Wood sings "we're watching the spuds chittin'..." Whilst at home, in the warm, there's tomatoes of all sizes and colours, beans, purple basil, more flowers...
Now there's time to spend a few hours looking after these things in the daylight, rather than squeezing it in after a long working day, maybe this is where semi-retirement comes into its own. Longer days to come, light evenings after next weekend... come, pumpkins, get a move on!
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