Thanks to everyone who supported the stall so generously in 2024! I really appreciate it.

Quiet in the garden now apart from the first of the hellebores emerging next to the shivering primroses. A time to wait for splashes of colour.

January is going to be a quiet month for me too in terms of the markets, but I will be starting one of my favourite gardening activities of all: propagating plants. This month, the main task is to sow sweet pea seeds into pots of peat free compost.

This page goes into more detail on sowing sweet pea seeds. If you don’t get round to it, I should have lots of different varieties available in March and April markets.

Meanwhile, preparing for Spring is definitely going to help me stay positive through what can be a long, cold month.