Gardening on a budget – Lee Gardner Project Diaries
I have been following a nice chap, Lee Gardner, online who is very inspirational and creates video project diaries of his experiments in the field of growing and propagating on a shoestring.
I believe he is relatively new to gardening and started in order to help his ageing Grandad. His enthusiasm is infectious and he quickly gathered many followers. He loves finding ways to make do and mend and passes them on to the world through his YouTube videos.
He was responsible for my saving so many seeds and having a go at growing strawberries, lemon and orange tree plants from seeds collected from fruit bought from the supermarket.
I think I recall him saying that he has an arrangement with his local supermarket to take stuff that is past its best then he uses the collected seeds to grow new plants.
Take a look at his “project diaries” youtube channel at the following link
Last week I bought peppers to use for tea and kept the seeds. I left them to dry out and today have sprinkled about thirty onto moist compost and put them into a polythene bag.They should germinate in about ten days. I’m not sure that they will come true but it’s worth a try. I have grown peppers before and think that they need a long time to grow in our climate and that is why I am starting early. 25th January. Germination update – about twenty seedlings showing through today 5th Feb that’s 13 days. I shall leave them in the tray covered for a little longer. Update – 13th Feb, all thirty seeds germinated. I have potted on six into three inch pots.