“Peppers propagating!”, I whispered as I tapped the empty packets with my dibber, before using it to cast “Expecto Capsicum!” over the trays of newly-sown seeds…
All my pepper varieties are now sown, though thanks to other things that needed doing I had to spread it over two days. Given that the propagator is only just about getting up to temperature now despite being switched on by lunchtime last Saturday I don’t think there’s going to be an issue there.
I gave the polytunnel a water, too. The salad crops that went in last November when the tomatoes came out are getting pretty close to being edible now. I reckon they’ll be there before the end of the month unless the weather turns really dull and cold.
Because rust has been an issue with outdoor garlic in the past, that all gets planted under cover in the polytunnel (and in a greenhouse if I run out of space) now and the first shoots were just showing, perhaps 10mm high. I also found a few cloves that had been pulled up. I don’t know if it’s mice or birds that do it, but whatever it is they’re damn clever at finding the cloves as they were all completely buried when I planted them. I’ve put them back in the ground and hopefully that will be an end to it.
