What's in your seed box?

Sowing in neat rows is really helpful when trying to distinguish weeds from Hardy Annuals as it all germinates. The only weed I get is bindweed coming in from next door so that's rarely a problem. I have one border about three feet wide that runs from the back of the house to the back fence and one square plot that my apple tree grows in. All the rest is paved & with pots of all sizes. There's just room for a garden table & bench. I think it's twenty-odd feet by fifteen if I remember right (not measured since I moved in about twenty years ago). There also a fenced off metal mesh pen with finely crushed bark for DH's guide dog to pee in. I can't remember the dimensions of that but it's the minimum size allowed by GDBA. I grow my runner beans up the outside of that. I can't remember the variety of bean...it's a 'heritage' variety that you can save the seed and it always comes true. It might not be a UK variety though. It was given to me by an old West Indian man from his alottment. He'd been growing that variety for donkey's years. It's very good. Ivory coloured flowers, long and very tasty pods and white beans mottled with pale pink.

My seedbox is full of part-used packets of veg seeds, many of which will still be viable next year. It also has several part-packets of various flowers, most of which are well past their use-by date - After several sowings of cosmos this year, I only got two viable plants, so it's definitely time for those to go!

My ambition last year was to win the veg section of the village show. Somehow or other, I managed it, and am now going to put part of my garden back to lawn and flowers.

After learning yesterday here on Gransnet that you can grow your own loofahs, that's also on my 'try' list for next year

I start my sowing in neat rows, but always have more ambition than space, so often end up with some things growing in the strangest of places, like a pumpkin up into the now-dead eucalyptus tree!

Love in a mist, Californian poppies, marigolds, black eyed Susan, morning glory, sweet peas, Canterbury bells, delphiniums, foxgloves all in paper envelopes in a cardboard box waiting for spring time