The Greenhouse in January

January 23, 2014 by Jenni Clutten | 13 Comments

This week I thought I would share what we have been up to in the greenhouse courtesy of my camera phone, (sorry).

I unexpectedly managed to unpacked one more of our many moving boxes and found the majority of my gardening equipment hiding under the cobwebs.  I moved most of my stuff straight into my greenhouse and thought we would celebrate by chitting our potatoes.  I used this video to give me an idea of exactly what I needed to do as I’ve never had to deal with the needs of potatoes ever before.  So in summary, I’ve added the word chitting to my vocabulary and found out it basically means lining up you potatoes to get them to make a strong sprout.

Next we decided to sow some seeds and this was a great task to get Nye involved in as he loves transferring things.  He moved the compost from the bag into the trays and I leveled them out before we scattered some seeds.  I have optimistically decided to sow some of the lavender, I have no idea if it will work but with the weather being so mild I thought I would give it a go.  I must admit I’ve become a tad enthusiastic about listening to gardeners question time recently.  So, after I heard them discussing sowing some foxgloves I have thrown mine around in a back corner far and away from toddler pincers. So, hopefully over the next  few weeks I’ll have some more exciting flower seedlings to show you.