Larkspur
Happiness is a newly turned patch of earth, a ball of string, a couple of short lengths of wood for markers, a long-handled trowel, a handful of wooden lollipop sticks, a permanent marker pen, and a basketful of carefully selected packets, jars, tins, envelopes and tiny boxes of seed extracted from my personal hoard. The seeds are such treasures that it can be extremely difficult to decide what to sow and where although, obviously, the overall choice is dictated by the season and availability of space.
Mmmmm ... four varieties of kale seed – black Tuscan kale from Italy, Red Russian kale, curly green kale from Scotland, scarlet kale from goodness knows where, and I am sure that, somewhere, there is a packet of interesting sounding Chinese kale too. How to choose? How much space can be devoted to kale? How much kale will possibly be eaten?
Not one to put all my eggs in the same basket, sowing a little of each variety is the obvious solution but, even then, there is the possibility that the garden will overflow with kale. While I do love the stuff, there is a huge variety of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and other members of the Brassica family, to sow, too.
This is the time to sow a variety of flowers, vegetables and herbs in your garden
This is also the perfect time for so many different vegetables, herbs and flowers, and there are dozens and dozens of wonderful seed varieties and species to be sown all over the garden. But I know all too well, that my space simply isn’t large enough for me to grow everything all at once, therefore, as happens each and every single sowing season, it’s back to the drawing board to make some decidedly difficult decisions regarding what, exactly, can be squeezed in.