today I have planted...

[Millymollymandy]

Mrs M I did think about doing that. Of my first batch of 8 I have one that was OK but its growing shoot looks brown and withered now. Another germinated and got to 1" high, stayed like that for 2 weeks and is now dead.

I've taken them all out of the propagator now that the weather has warmed up. I've got 2 emerging from about 12 of the 2nd sowing.

This morning I've planted about 30 in a tiny seed tray in the hope I might get about another 5. Never transplanted the things before but I'm running out of little pots and using way too much bought compost.

Tony lots of us on the forum seem to have this problem.

I've also found lots of other things don't want to come up so maybe my seed is getting old, it's hard to know. So I've just sown a load more borlotti beans with last year's saved seed instead of 3 year old bought seed as that seems to be going 'off' too. Ditto Calendula. Aaaaaaarrrrggh!

[Millymollymandy]

and 50 red Roscoff onions in a raised bed.

How do you manage to find local onion sets? Or are these from seed? Just recently we bought a big bag of pink Breton onions (for eating) and they were absolutely delicious but I've never ever seen them before. And the only onion sets you can get here are the same old same old horrid flat bottomed Jaune Paille des Vertus or Stuttgarter Reisen, again flat bottomed making them hard to cut into. I've given up with ord onions and just grow red ones now (Red Baron or one other variety, not Breton!).

[Mrs Moustoir]

MMM: the latest Roscoff onions were bought as little plants from local garden centre (@€2 for about a hundred plants - half price as they were looking a bit sad!). Last year I bought loads of little plants at Pontivy market.

I've also grown some from seed to have as little pink spring onions and planted red onion sets earlier in the season. Couldn't get the roscoff sets this year so made do with Red Baron - but you can get them.

Can't get enough of red onions - they make a gorgeous red onion marmalade chutney.

[Annpan]

Today I planted out some thyme and tried to take a cutting from my sage.

Yesterday a few geraniums were popped in among the cabbages (in the hope that it confuses the butterflies.... or at least looks pretty)

I have pumpkins and broad beans just about ready to be moved outside, but not quite, I'll try to hold back a couple of days.

[grahamhobbs]

Try nasturiums by your cabbages and broad beans, cabbage white butterflies prefer them to cabbages and blacklfy prefer them to broad beans.

[Annpan]

you know what Graham.... they ARE nasurtiums.... I am a moron (for calling them geraniums) but also clearly a genius for, in fact, ding the right thing