This is going quite well! I have learnt from last year. I prick my seedlings out early, in quite dry soil and move them on. I have a conveyor belt happening. So far I have got nicotiana (maybe too much), dill, greek basil, catch-fly and chilli from seed. This is my second set of dill because the mice got the first lot (and some coriander and some basil). They dug them up and ate them!

I’ve moved the nicotiana, some of the chilli and some nasturtiums which are cuttings (!) up to the balcony. I took the cuttings from the nasturtium in the window box on our window sill because it needed tidying up and then it seemed a shame to throw them away. They are doing well! It’s helped that it’s been so mild.

I am also growing sweet peas that are harvested from last year (why Harriet, why! let it go). And I’ve got some fox gloves in pots.

The cerinthe I planted last year in late autumn is now about 9 inches tall and about to flower – which is nice but not surely not seasonal. And the nemesis (from Wisley?? can it be those?) has self seeded and is also now flowering everywhere including in the cracks in the balcony.

I’ve put the angelica in a pot round Amie’s house and it was doing well but now it’s gone all droopy. And I’m going to go round her’s, give her a fuschia in a pot (from a cutting) and throw out the old golf-clubs…