Month: April 2018

It’s still too cold outside to move seedlings out, so they currently crowd the windowsill in the kitchen, soaking up all the warm sunny rays. As of yet they are still small and rather manageable. We plan to get a polytunnel, but for the time being, it’s nice to have the minor jungle crowding all the sunny sills.

As I only tried to grow Portuguese tomatoes last year, and we had a miserable September with hardly any heat at all, I’ve selected both Siberian and Irish breeds to try this year. I figure they might be better able to handle the Irish summer, and I’ll just have to hold off hope for the Portuguese ones until we have a warmer more systematic setup. I’ve definitely got a hunger for fresh garden tomatoes! Grow on, grow strong, little seedlings!

Planted another round of seeds and moved tomatoes and peppers into bigger pots. My success rate for sprouting seeds has significantly lessened compared to last year. I figure it is still early for some of them to sprout, as it has been an exceptionally cold March and April here in Ireland. We had two snow storms in March! Extraordinary.

I took better care to label my planted seeds this time around. The peas are potted and my plan is to line them along the back fence to fulfill a twofold purpose: one, to provide a bit of hedging privacy from the neighbors, and second, to provide a bit of easy support for the peas. We shall see how the experiment grows. I plan to continue planting seeds until at least the end of May. Hopefully we’ll have a warmer autumn this year.

We finally tied the knot!