Happy Mothers day Mums!

   

Hope all you Mums out there had a great day.  I thought as a gift for my Mum and Mother in law I'd have a go at one of those flowers in a bag displays.

I bought a selection of flowers from a local market, then spent Saturday night chopping and arranging.  I think the arrangements are pretty OK for a first attempt, the Mum's liked them and that's all that matters. :)

Growing my five a day...

In my previous post I made a start on growing my pot luck collection of flower seeds, well now I am starting on the veg.

The selection I bought from ebay contains the unusual round courgette, a mixture of aubergines and tomatoes for a hanging basket.  There is also miniature lettuce, dwarf beans and cabbage.

I most admit I did grumble to myself when I saw the aubergines and tomatoes, I don't know what it is but I've never had much luck growing them.  The tomatoes are either tiny or non existent and when I have attempted aubergines, the plants put on a great flower show then drop off taking the potential veg with them.

If there's anyone out there reading this who is an expert in tomatoes and/or aubergines, please drop me a line and tell me were I am going wrong.  That would be fantastic :D

Dismal efforts aside.  I must say whenever I have grown beans and lettuce I always had an abundance, and when I grew long courgettes I would blink and it would be a marrow!  Never mind!  Me and the hubby would eat it all the same!

Anyway I started growing the tomatoes, aubergines, courgette and lettuce on my now crowded windowsill, the beans and cabbage are still sat waiting in their packets until the warmer weather...

It's that time of year again....

What with spring in the air, or wind and rain if you live in the UK. I decided it was time to make a start on growing a few plants for my garden, and this year I thought I do something a little different.  I have bought two potluck bags of mixed seeds from ebay, one bag contained flowers whilst the other is veg (I tell you about them in my next blog :).

The flower seeds were a mix of the usual pansies, sweet peas and marigolds.  Plus a few surprises which included aster and chrysanthemum both of which I have never grown, so I am quite excited to see what pops up out the soil.

I've started the pansy, sweet pea, lobelia, nasturtium, aster, rudbeckia, mini sunflower, marigold in pots on the windowsill.  The rest I will put straight in the garden or in pots when the weather perks up :)

I put three sets of seeds in one tray using two extra long plant label sticks as dividers.  Window space in my house is somewhat limited!