Despite the return of winter we have continued to think about spring and planting things. A number of seeds should be being planted now or soonish. Obviously they are meant to be in a greenhouse or cold frame where they will not freeze. We have ordered a cold frame kind of thing, but it has not arrived yet despite ordering it some weeks ago. Their website tells me everyday that it will be sent within 3 days, I have emailed to ask when it actually will be sent, but am not holding my breath for a response - ordering things from french websites can be a bit unreliable. Things take ages to arrive and it is impossible to get information about what is happening. Except one shop called Darty where we bought the fridge, freezers and ice cream maker who seem like a 'proper' shop.
In preparation for it's arrival and for spring more generally we have ordered some (loads of) seeds. We seem to have rather a lot, as we ordered these plus we have bought various throughout the year. We have some duplicates - we didn't check what we had before ordering more. Doh!
To help us work out what raised beds we need to construct plus what we need to plant where and when, we have done a planting plan with a little map and a schedule. It was extremely brain straining to do with over 50 things (mainly veg but some fruit, flowers and herbs) on it. We feel exhausted just having done the planning, never mind the actual planting.
The map is upside down in this picture but I don't think that will affect your ability to understand it! There is a key as well to remind us what it all means. Essentially it covers the potager, the bank below the potager, in front of the house and the bank below the house and has some other things on it such as the compost heap and leaf pile.
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| Super easy to use map |
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| Hard at work (with plenty of tea) |
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| Planting schedule by month |
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