Chapter 8: A New Year
January 2016
We are now into the new year and the second week of January 2016, and i starten to inspect the garden to see what the winter ravages had brought forth. The garden had remained pretty much how we left it. It was nice to see that our efforts had paid off. There was a bit of light weeding to do around the border of the lawn and a little bit on the tiered section, but none of the harsh landscape that we often saw. Looking at our past efforts saw that we were establishing a good ground base to work with. It makes you eager to get started on the next stage.
Flower Seeds
I wanted to start growing some flower seeds that i bought last year but the greenhouse was a bit too cold to use for now. I was given a propagator by my brother for christmas, so i bought a small bag of compost and started to grow my tomato seeds indoors. Within a week they started germinating and you could see a few small seedlings sprouting out of the soil. If none of you have ever watched new seedlings sprouting it has a strange curiosity, and each day you start to see more pop up, so you act like a carer by daily watering them and watching them grow.One of the problems that i encountered is that they get long and leggy because there is not sufficient light for them. Unfortunately the first ones sown did not survive long. So i decided to wait until i could start sowing more seeds in the greenhouse where the light is adequate and more warmer days.