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tomato & chili seeds (Thompson & Morgan blog)

I've written a little piece on sowing tomato & chilli seeds for Thompson & Morgan, you can find it here

granny blanket, sowing seeds a muddy spaniels

www.littlewrenpottery.co.uk my new Horseshoe Lace scarf using Debbie Bliss Eco Aran glorious granny blanket gets an airing crab apple blossom on my walk on Monday Moss and his mud bath on Monday granny blanket love Sunny Sunday Sowing Seeds (tomato and chilli)  

sunshine and sowing seeds

  I'm making the most of the sunshine this morning and sewing my herb seeds, I was meant to do it last weekend. The upcycled table that Ian repaired last year comes in handy for potting seeds (but it is the dog grooming table!) I bought the Stewart kitchen garden propagator kits from Wilkos last week, £5 each and they come complete with four olive green matching pots. Cute and pracical. I've put some pea shingle on the base, I normally use old newspapers but couldn't find any this morning. And Wilko have an offer on seeds, 3 for 2 great value and cheaper than the supermarket. If you live near The Range they offer 2 packs of De Ree seeds for 99p. I already had the seed compost un-opened from last year. Seeds chives - decorative pink flowes and mild onion flavour leaves basil sweet - mild aniseed flavour. Easy to grow it quickly produces succulent leaves on the windowsill parsley Moss Curled - very versitile, easy to grow in pots on the windowsill. Once esta

colourful granny square day

I taught myself to crochet using a book and youTube about three years ago. For some reason I wasn't doing it exactly correctly, it looked like I was until I took out a scubscription for Simply Crochet about 7 months ago and started to read the tutorials properly! Anyway about a year or so ago I made 47 granny squares and put them in a box after joining them, and un-picking them and gnerally lost interest in the project. I don't know why but curiousity got the better of me last weekend and I opened the box to have a peak. Actually I do know why, just remembered. It was Katies Kitchen blog that reminded me. She had just finished a UFO from 2010 so I thought oh I could do the same with my granny square blanket, surely its not that long. the granny squares at the back need to be re-worked 3 granny sqaures re-worked 43 to go! Anyway looking back at me were 47 happy squares (as I like call them) all colourful and waiting to be loved again. So I started to re-work them a