March = Busy!!!
I’ve collected a lot of scrap wood to start walling the secure chicken run, and yesterday spent a whole day sawing and treating the wood. Tomorrow I’ll start screwing or nailing it in place. I don’t know yet if I’ll nail or screw; I don’t have a cordless drill driver, and it’s a heck of a lot of screwing to do by hand. But, if nailing doesn’t seem secure, I may have to suck it up and use a manual screwdriver anyway.
The tomatoes are doing great on the windowsills, they’ve all got their first true leaves now. The roots aren’t yet struggling for space, but I think I might pot them up anyway as they’re rather tall, and I think they’d appreciate having their stems soiled up.
I’ve also sown some sunflowers on the windowsill, and one of them has shot up and got it’s first true leaves, yet the others are still small and only thinking about becoming a plant.
It’s time to sow march-sown seeds, and I’ll do this in the greenhouse. It still gets cold in there overnight, but I feel that the stress to the seedlings being cycled from the flat to the allotment outweighs the slower germination from cold nights.
So many people at the allotments now digging their ground. I’m so glad I got that out of the way last autumn. There’s already so much to do!
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