Clarebelle - have you grown Samphire before? I come from Norfolk where we could just pick it at the coast, but I've bought seeds this year so it will be my first time growing it. I love the stuff and am hoping home grown lives up to the wild type and doesn't mind the Scottish weather.
I'm being quite conservative with my sowings, as I hate it when I run out of places to put growing plantlets. I fill all my sunny windowsills with tomatoes, peppers, chillies, cucs and so on (started in a heated propagator), but there isn't enough light to stop them from growing pale and gangly. Nothing delicate can go out into the tunnel before May, and there's still a chance of frost, including inside the tunnel, until early June.
I do have broad beans, two kinds, in 4" pots swinging in a bakers tray from the crop bars in the tunnel (keeps those meeces off). There's also podding peas, sugar snap peas and sweet peas in another basket. I have garlic and shallots growing, but I haven't sown any other seeds yet. I'm planning some hardy salads such as mizuna to go direct into the tunnel soil tomorrow, and some lettuce which I'll start in the kitchen. It's about time to sow leeks too, and summer cropping purple sprouting broccoli.
My potatoes have been set on a cool windowsill to chit for 2-3 weeks now, but it will be late April or May before I plant them out.
I think I'll sow the peppers now, but leave tomatoes and cucs for a few weeks more.
It is time to sow flowers, so I'll concentrate on those. I want my veg patch to be full of flowers this year - helichrysum which the bees and butterflies LOVE
, plain marigolds, johny jump up which is a tiny viola, oh, all sorts of things. I'm hoping for a riot of colour, with a few edibles in between
well, quite a lot really