Germination

One of the coriander seeds I planted back on the 13th of February has finally put out a pale root, which means that everything has now shown at least some sign of germination. Except for the exceedingly elderly mustard and cress seeds I have on wet paper on the windowsill, where only a single mustard seed has done anything at all (that one has now opened its leaves, whereas the other seeds are just lying there damply and will presumably eventually go mouldy). I wasn't expecting much from those as the germination rate was very poor the last time I tried; I just emptied out the last of the seed to use up the packets in the hope that I might get at least some sprouts. In the case of the cress that was apparently too much to ask!

Encouraged by this, I have put out a pot with a quarter of last year's sheet of towel-tomatoes in it; everyone else seems to have been starting their tomatoes indoors for a month or so, but I'm afraid mine just have to be hardy as I haven't got light or space for them inside... I see that I actually planted some tomato seed on the 2nd of February last year, which eventually came up halfway through April after the soil was disturbed -- the tomatoes planted on March 21st came up a week earlier!

( pak choi, dill and chilli )

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