Starter Smallholders

Our main reason for visiting the market where we bought the strawberry plants was to get some seedlings for the vegetable garden, as a couple of trips overseas and generally poor organization had prevented us from starting any seeds indoors this year. Our local market is amazing at this time of year. It is full of old ladies, who appear to have grown seedlings on their living room window sills, selling them straight out of the seed trays at ridiculously low prices. A total outlay of about five lats (five pounds) bought us 20 each of leeks, two different varieties of cabbage, broccoli, kohlrabi, two varieties of lettuce and a couple of pumpkin plants. A few hours weeding and planting and our vegetable patch was looking rather overcrowded - more digging next week for peas and beans, which are still not in. Tomorrow, Rita will go up while I am at work to water them and check for continued life.