Seeds of summer

“There is little else as satisfying in life – let alone in the garden – as seeing a beautiful plant in full flower or harvest that you have nurtured from seed”

I love the fact that the past year’s enforced confinement to our gardens has resulted in so many people growing plants from seed for the first time. All the reports back from this front have the same tone – one of celebration at the elemental magic of the delicate little seedlings, emerging through soil or compost. I know that for many, used to buying their plants individually, half grown or even fully formed, it is a revelation that plants can be created in such quantities and with such ease and that the process of nurturing them through from that first sprinkle of seed to a young plant ready to go out into its allotted place in the garden is as enjoyable as any other aspect of gardening.

I sow seeds practically all the year round, albeit very few in November or December, but now is peak seed sowing time. The soil is warming