Fingers Crossed

I finally got the courage to pot on the seedlings. I'd been really nervous about it, and I'm still not sure about how I did. I watched, re-watched and re-re-watched Alan Titchmarsh's video on it (here), but I was certainly more robust with the poor little plants. I didn't pot all of them, because we'd never use that much parsley, but I potted on most of the coriander, with a couple of seedlings per pot. 

They were past ready. I've been checking every hour or so, and they're not dead yet. 

I also planted some of the 'seeds in a paper mat' rocket which is currently on the windowsill in the kitchen. 

I've been thinking about this. I have a suspicion that I wouldn't do well with proper gardening, but I've found myself watching gardening programmes on YouTube. The trouble is, I'm not sure how much we would eat if I grew a lot of veggies. DH has his pasta bake, I eat rubbish and after September, bear will very likely be making his own arrangements a few hundred miles away. I'll see how I do with the chillies, which absolutely will be used. I must get DH's recipe for pickled chillies to share here. He's almost run out and I'll need to buy some more chillies for him to pickle, but I'm hoping that this will be the last I buy for some time, or at least the last but one. 

I'm planning on planting a lot of lavender. It's fairly trouble free, is great for pollinators and I love the scent. I grew up with the sense that gardens should be productive and have fruit, veggies and herbs. Lavender is sort of productive and if I feel the need I can always make lavender bags. And, to be fair, I have huge amounts of honeysuckle, two flourishing roses, a lilac and I think that there's a clematis in an unexpected corner. The lilac looks lovely this year.

Plus some of the weeds are pretty and the damned bluebells are back. I adore bluebells, but I've never managed to thin out the bank of them under Gladys. I'll try and remember to take a pic tomorrow.

Hugs and good health to all.