SATURDAY

Back to our old routine today.  Just after seven we headed for the Growers' Market.  I took a photo as I arrived but the light was not very good.  Still not all the usual stalls but we bought some golden delicious apples, some oranges, avocados, rocket, carrots and orange kumara (sweet potato) and some cucumber and courgette plants.

Then we went to the Supermarket.  We go to New World and, at present, they have a promotion giving away "Little Garden" boxes with seeds and little pots and seed raising mix.  I think they are aimed at children but they have a nice variety of seeds.  Ones like cabbage and broccoli I will leave till later but today I have sowed lettuce, basil x 2, borage, pansy, chives, thyme and, in the garden a couple of carrots.  (You do not know what seeds you are getting)

This is what one gets for each variety.  There is the pot and seed raising mix that needs water added,  a small sheet of seeds and a label.

I used their pots  for the pansies which I cut into smaller pieces and  used a six pot container for the lettuce and herbs.  I have put them in a makeshift mini glasshouse which was actually a bowl for salads that I bought many moons ago but which I have used for raising seeds for over ten years now.  All I have to do now is wait.

The seedlings will have to wait for another day to get planted as there is a strong cold wind.