Let's Get Growing - 2013

Happy New Year's Eve to you all on what will be my final post of 2012!
I have today started my biodynamic schedule for sowing and growing in 2013...it's a leaf day today, changing tomorrow to a fruit day part way through. I always leave sowing to a full sign day, therefore my beans, peas, early bush tomatoes (experiment on the Grapevine) and peppers will not get sown until the 2nd, leaving me New Year's Day to get some vital greenhouse tidying completed. I am going to need those cleared benches real soon.
Today I sowed a tray each of Precoce de Louviers Cabbage, Greyhound Cabbage and mixed lettuce leaves. They are currently occupying my sunniest windowsill, but as soon as they are through, I will pop them into a double walled propagator in the greenhouse.
Let us hope that 2013 is a better GYO season than 2012...personally I can't wait to see the back of it!

Fruit Week into February

Today I have transplanted all January sowings of both tomatoes and peppers. Some were biodynamically sown, others synodic. All have been transplanted on synodic.
Those sown on biodynamic have returned a 75% germination rate. Those sown on synodic have returned a 100% germination rate. All were sown using the same conditions, separated only by a few days in the calendar.
They will be kept on window sills in the orangery now in order to grow on.

A Sample Selection

5th February - intended date for sowing broad bean Aquadulce