There was a bitterly cold wind up at Roots today but the hardiest of the volunteers planted all the potatoes. A less hardy group of us planted tomato, aubergine, pepper, fennel and celery seeds. Others were transplanting the baby onion plants from seed trays into modules.
Amy among the rows of potatoes
There are more beautiful primroses in our front garden.
It’s Shrove Tuesday and this evening we’ve had savoury pancakes stuffed with ham and sweet corn followed by crêpes suzettes with the juice of ruby red blood oranges.
utesmile
February 19, 2026 at 1:22 pm
Yummy, I totally forgot pancake day! Oops
nrhatch
February 18, 2026 at 3:44 pm
I’m a fair-weather gardener who does her best to avoid wicked winds when planting, weeding, and/or harvesting. 😀
mybeautfulthings
February 18, 2026 at 5:06 pm
Me too which is why I was inside sowing seeds! 🙂
Ark
February 17, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Looks great!
It’s onion seeding time here as well but I still have a couple of boxes of onions from last season. Remember? .You planted 1000 onions and I thought :Sounds fun, let me have a go,
I will sow seeds but try to grow much bigger onions this season.
mybeautfulthings
February 18, 2026 at 2:40 pm
Hope your seeds take well and that you get much bigger onions this time. Now that we have only the four veg boxes (no allotment any more) we’re going to grow shallots rather than onions. We have some of each left, hopefully enough to last until the new ones are ready. Seems strange that you are sowing onion seeds at the same time as us, which is end of summer for you? 🙂