First Tray of Rocket Seedlings

So here is a tray of 14 little Rocket plants that I've just 'pricked out'. Hope they all prosper, I've put the pots onto a tray of fine gravel to avoid waterlogging and increase humidity.

It was great to see that the Tomato seeds have just sprouted early this morning - too small to show in a picture yet.

I re-used the seed trays from the Rocket to plant a few Spinach seeds, they're quite big and easy to manage so I could easily pop one in the centre of each module.

Rocket, Tomato and Spinach - we will have Salad :)

Thyme for the Soup

Made cauliflower soup for lunch today, it's one of our favourites but for the first time I added a handful of fresh thyme from the desktop garden.

I'm not sure if I mentioned the thyme earlier, it's just the basic Thymus pre-grown from the garden centre. I've re-potted into a larger pot, it would probably last for many years in a sunny garden but we'll have to wait and see how it survives indoors.

Really must pot up those rocket seedlings, they're getting quite leggy already.

The Rocket Takes Off!

After only a couple of days the rocket seeds are already growing tall. Will need to pot up very soon.

As well as a few Tomato seeds we also planted some Japanese Basil (Shiso or Perilla) which we have grown successfully on a window sill in the past - looking forward to harvesting that in the Summer, it's delicious in Tempura :)

So the desktop is starting to fill up already. We realised we forgot to get labels to put in the pots, we need to get some soon before we lose track.