Germination rumination

Propagation

Over the past weeks I ’ve sown more repeated seeds than is rigorously necessary or indeed sensible . I do get a bit giddy when it comes to seeds . All that possible , first sign wintertime is on its way of life out , plus the sense of impending bargain – lorra lorra plant for norra lorra money . There is also something borderline marvelous about the cognitive operation . Being of a scientific bent I know and understand on an cerebral level the biology of the plant lifecycle but there is something awe inspiring about it that tickles me . That lilliputian thing turn into a plant that turns into many semen and so ( sow ) on . peradventure it come to something primordial in us , a race storage become back yard of years . Like flame . Or the olfaction of Viscount St. Albans cooking . Mmm …

Sorry , drifted away there for a minute . Anyhow , back to realness . In the greenhouse , there is seedling action aplenty . Some I ’m cut across individually in the several trial I have sound on , but the ease are n’t getting any airtime .

There ’s a foresighted leaning of not - yet - germinating seeds which I wo n’t lean here . If they persist in this disobliging behavior I ’ll embarrass them in front of their peers . Germinating nicely , however :

Pricked out :

The broadies were going so well in the heated bed that I moved them to a regular bench in the greenhouse .

Bacon!

Broad bean

To add together to the sport , I still had more to sow . This is the last batch from the Hardy Plant Society seed rally . Here they are :

They are :

in reality there is one more , fern spore , which need a unlike treatment and free a post all by themselves .

Photo quality not up to my usual mediocrity , it ’s dark out and my head torch and phone photoflash are not really up to the occupation of effectual lighting . Must get a work light instal in there .

I ’ll be back , with more sprouting news and a post on the fern spore .