On my plan for January I have a P for plant in the Sweet Pea and Snapdragon rows and a ✅ for flowering in the Snowdrops row. Last year there were some Snowdrops in the garden so I'm hoping they'll emerge again this year.
I quite like the idea of supporting local businesses so I thought the best place to buy my seeds would be our local garden centre. I also think it's quite important to get the family involved so I took my 2 kids on a walk last Monday to the garden centre with the promise of cake at the restaurant within the garden centre when we got there. It's about a 1.5 mile walk or so my husband told me after the event so it was a big ask for my 2 year old. But armed with a bag of sweets in my pocket and enthusiasm for finally starting to sort out the garden we all got there.
After cake we wondered round the garden centre. I did have a mental shopping list of obviously Sweet Pea and Snapdragon seeds, but I also needed something to grow them in and some compost. I'd also thought maybe of getting a small pop up kind of greenhouse for later on. Unfortunately, I don't know if it's because of the time of year, the garden centre seemed lacking in anything to grow seeds in and I could only find Sweet Pea seeds but it was a start. Again to involve the kids they picked a pack of Sweet Pea seeds each so we have Sweet Pea Pluto and Sweet Pea Midnight both by Kings Seeds. Pluto are supposed to be the Deepest Colour Seeds and Midnight are a Sultry Maroon in Colour.
We caught the bus back home.
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