[growth] seasons past & future

Grown & eaten this year:
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I tried various other things that failed through lack of executive function to water, which will hopefully be less of an issue this season. I did achieve my goal of managing a series of salads comprising shallot, pepper, cucumber, tomato and olives, where I grew everything but the olives, but was Involved in harvesting and preserving the olives. This was very exciting and I hope to do it again more competently next year. In the ground, but not yet harvested: some purple sprouting broccoli (fingers crossed!).

Today I have bought... some... seeds. Which is all fine and good, but also, I really need to get some of the ones I already have in started, given that I will not now be Done With Thesis by the end of January and cannot therefore shunt all the Gardening Misc off to Deal With Then, alas.

Purchased from RealSeeds.co.uk, for which I set an actual alarm given how rapidly they're selling out: aubergine 'Czech Early'; French beans 'Purple Queen' and 'Aquilon'; beetroot 'Albino'; celery 'Redventure'; courgettes 'Striato d'Napoli', 'Burpees Golden Zucchini', 'Tondo di Piacenza'; cucumbers 'Miniature White', 'Early Fortune', 'Salty Ears'; spinach 'Securo'; leeks 'Bleu de Solaise'; lettuce 'Reine des Glaces', 'Optima'; tomatoes 'Blue Fire', 'Galina' (yellow), 'Chocolate Cherry', 'Orange Banana', 'Peche Vilmorin', 'Green Zebra'; winter squash 'Sibley'.

From Chiltern: carrot 'Black Nebula' (apparently stays purple when boiled, holler if you want me to send you a decant), 'Amazing Technicolour Dreamcarrot' mix; beetroot mix 'Funky Disco Beet' (...); lamb's lettuce 'Baron'; pak choi 'Purple Rain' (F1 hybrid, but... purple); celeriac 'Giant Prague'; basil 'Red Rubin'; coriander 'Calpyso'. Plus third-time-lucky-I-hope Passiflora edulis, which I might actually manage to get to adulthood this year, you never know.

In addition to these (...) I have a... collection... of other seeds, including saved tomato seeds and the Sugar Magnolia peas mentioned above. I also [shuffles] bought a lot of varieties of chilli a little while back. So, er, once again the problem is going to be working out where to put them all, but at least this year I have three good big beds well set up plus a fourth small, plus a fifth that can be brought into service fairly rapidly, plus the makings for another large bed and several small ones if I can get my act together +- thesis...

Okay. Okay I can be excited about this, in spite of thesis swamp. Let's see how it goes.