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SPRING AROUND THE CORNER
Once we are past the darkest days of winter most gardeners’ fingers start to itch to start tearing open seed packets, but unless you can supply additional light for your seedlings it
is wise to wait till after Valentine’s Day. Light levels will then start to increase enough to avoid spindly seedlings. Varieties that grow in cool conditions such as broad beans, lettuce, spinach, cabbages of early hearting varieties, calabrese, onions and spring onions, radish, coriander, dill, parsley and peas for
shoots can be sown outdoors
under cover, such as a
removable cloche. Crops that
need a long growing season
e.g. tomatoes, peppers and
aubergine can be sown late
February, early March with some additional heat or on a sunny windowsill.
Solitary bees will start to emerge in March and are around for 10 to 12 weeks. They love
to nest in tubes of bamboo, hollow stems or custom-made bee boxes, and will soon inhabit any that you have waiting for them. Red Mason bees, just one of 250 types of solitary bee, are very efficient pollinators of early crops; they collect the pollen all over their hairy bodies and it is easily transferred as they forage in orchards and allotments.
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