Itchy sowing fingers

[tootles]

I am being a very good little moon gardener this year. Everything is ready, the beds are terraced, manured and raked. The coldframe has a shiny new lid, my pots are all laid out and I have a basket of seeds waiting to go out.

But not until tomorrow!!!!

Tomorrow is the day I can start sowing with a vengence, NOT today.


I may go mad waiting!!!!!

(someone PLEASE tell me there is method in this madness??!!)

[minipop]

I dunno about method... But i praise your patience! I don't think i could wait til the moon was ready... I've been sowing for weeks now!

[tootles]

Last year I lost loads of seedlings. First to late frost and then to an early heatwave. I decided that I needed more guidance and all the old boys here follow it, so I thought i'd give it a try!

I suppose if you're going to do something, may as well do it properly!!

[SlugLobber]

Good luck, Tootles. I have to say my patience ran out on the 11th Jan, when I sowed my first toms! They seem to be doing great. I take it you didn't have room/time to try both methods?

[rogesse]

No patience here! I've got no more space for any more seedlings so will have to sit on my hands to beat the urge!

[Victoria26]

I planted out my red onion sets, my petit pois and my broad beans out this afternoon.
Weather was glorious!

[HayleyB]

Honestly, itchy fingers are just so frustrating, never realised until now, then I'll get itchy tummy wanting to eat everything and have to wait

[piskieinboots]

... then I'll get itchy tummy wanting to eat everything and have to wait

and then it'll be winter and garden shut-down and Christmas and then it'll be New Year and we'll all be groaning on 'when will Spring get here'

Slow down and take a chill pill me lovelies - how does it go...
WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

[HayleyB]

OK, OK, actually procrastination is sommat I did quite a bit in the sun this morning, a beatiful bird on the bird feeder - not a clue what it was and then staring at the chooks later morning

[FionaH]

Piskie can i stare AND plant stuff???