THE days are, at last, starting to get a little longer, but who knows what the weather’s going to be like this month? Thinking about seed sowing might seem a bit of a gamble, but it’s an inescapable fact that some flowers – some veg, too – take time. That’s time to germinate, time to grow and time to develop before flowering or cropping. And sowing seeds in January will really help you get ahead of the seasons.
Certain seeds – begonias and pelargoniums, for example – can be sown in a heated propagator in a greenhouse, in a conservatory or on the windowsill this month. Plants with small seeds, including begonias and lobelias, germinate into
