It's windowsill season

 I've just spent an hour pricking out seedlings and sowing others. They're all on the windowsill in my sitting room and porch at the moment and they'll get moved around the various windowsills in the house as the sun moves around. It's not ideal but beggars can't be choosers and it's worked just fine for me for more years than I care to imagine. In another week or so I'll set the propagator going in the kitchen and by March things will really start to take off here.  I was really surprised to see that the Beth Alpha cucumbers are sprouting as they've been on the windowsill in the unheated porch.  They clearly don't realise that they're supposed to prefer to be somewhere warm to germinate. My Giant Prague celeriac have just germinated and I'm hoping to get much bigger roots this year. I sowed them much later last year and although the flavour has been superb they didn't really grow very big at all.

I cut back the over wintered pepper plants last week and they look so much neater on the windowsill in the bedroom.  I won't bother trying to overwinter them as big plants this year.  I'll cut them well back and they'll take up so much less room.

I'm going to take loads of cuttings from my house plants as I have had great success with that in the past.  I've just offered Tony's colleague a swiss cheese plant cutting  that was rooted last year.  It is now a decent sized plant and all I did was put a stalk in a vase of water and left it to do it's thing. I'm considering doing a plant stall at a local car boot sale in the early summer as houseplants have all of a sudden become very popular and it will be a nice way to save up for a greenhouse... I'm not sure yet whether I do actually want one as the porch served  us really well last year.  I'll think on that one.