Germination

The mixed salad seed and one of the sweet peas (I can't remember how many I actually planted!) has definitely germinated, as have the marigolds. I have put another three sweet-pea seeds into the other pot in which nothing has visibly come up (and didn't find any trace of the old ones while doing so :-p) -- I don't really need all that many sweet-pea plants and won't have room for a lot, but since it is mixed colour seed I should like to have at least some variety.

I also attempted to germinate some more of the dwarf pea seed that I tried to get pea-sprouts from over the winter (with a zero success rate). This time I put the soaked peas into a jam-jar down the side of some wet newspaper, and several of them are now showing roots already, probably because it is now spring and not the middle of winter ;-)

I finished watching the second episode of the Soviet 'Monte Cristo'( Read more... )

Fernand and Albert de Morcerf (with Boyarsky on the left)

But I suppose the intended implication must be that this Albert is the son of Edmond and Mercedes, which is definitely a different kettle of fish... (But I really don't see how that can be the case, given the timeline as depicted!)