April

Time to Sow

11 May 2026 • 1 min read

My potting station in the garden at home

Over Easter weekend I made a proper start on sowing, and did a little potting on of the few things that were already on the go.

I planted:

21 Parsnips (White Gem) in tubes (to be germinated indoors)
8 pairs of tomato seed saved from the plot last year into modules
8 pairs yellow cherry tomatoes saved from last years toms into modules
8 cucumbers (that were freebie seeds from Subway gifted by a colleague) into pots.
8 baked potato squash (a type of winter acorn squash)
4 trailing Nasturtium seeds
Rocket, lettuce, and mizuna seeds sprinkled onto a seed tray finely, I think 8 little modules per type
Potted on Hungarian hot-wax chillies and yarrow (yellow) cuttings.
6 runner beans in pots (firestorm, string-less beans).
6 butternut squash into pots
6 pots of Swiss chard 'Sunset' (Yellow)
6 pots of Swiss chard 'Peppermint' (vibrant pink)
6 pots Chard 'Ampera' (Red)

I was gifted a bulb lasagne at Christmas and this has started to really come to life this week. A beautiful gift!!