Sow chillies now but otherwise it’s time to do some plotting and planning
Thank God January is almost over: it is never an easy month and is made worse by the desperate need to do something, anything, in the garden combined with the ability to do very little. Now (and truthfully spoken, February, too) is not the month to start sowing. The light levels are still too low, the day length too short, the weather too dismal. The exception to the rule are chillies, which benefit from the longest growing season you can eke out. And perhaps leeks and onions, but only if you have heat on which to germinate them and a greenhouse or polytunnel to move them into, because there’s no point in getting them going now only to have to kick them outdoors too early because you’ve run out of windowsills.
Instead, it’s time to do some plotting and planning. Take a long dark evening and go through all your seed packets. Sort into one pile anything that is more than three years old or has only a smattering of seeds. Now you can take stock of what’s left and order new seed. Be systematic, otherwise you’ll go online and order what you think you need only to find you have eight packets of some strangely named squash and no radishes.
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