Planting the first seeds of the year and pressing daffodils.
297 – Planting seeds
Monday 10 March. Cloudy. 11°C
It’s the last day of warmish weather before the cold comes again and we decide it’s time for planting seeds. We’ve got a bed out the back which we scattered wildflower seeds last year and it worked well. Hoping it will again. We prepare it by turning the earth over (and do some minimal weeding) then B has fun scattering seeds up and down and watering. We got a bumper pack from the supermarket and are planting cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and poppies. Then I clean out some plant pots and we also plant sunflower seeds and sweet peas to grow inside. We’ll keep checking in on them and hopefully will see them soar.
296 – Collecting things: Ghost leaves >
290 – Pressing Daffodils
Monday 17 March. Sunny. 8°C
We only have about twenty minutes on Mondays for a challenge at the moment but my mum has some daffodils which are ready to be thrown out. We dig out the flower press for the first time this year.
B is not particularly crafty and has an ambivalent relationship to the press but I got a bit obsessed with it last year. B will normally help picking them and likes opening it weeks later but is, at the moment, bored with the pressing. I ask her to write the numbers (290) on the paper around the carefully positioned daffodils and she’s happy doing that and adds some dots “for people looking at the photo to find”. We just do one layer for now. I’m planning a flower collecting day later in the season.
