April 29, 2025

Coping with Seedlings During a Heatwave, Troubleshooting When Planting Seedlings Close Together & Carving Out Time to Stay Calm and Focused

21 minutes

The chickens are back on the podcast! It's Tuesday 29 April 2025 and it's very hot.

Join me for this episode on a really beautiful spring day, which started off well then turned out to be a bit too busy and fraught for my liking. I am in charge of the diary so that's entirely my fault. While I'm letting the hens out this morning I talk about water (again), the planting out of my nigella seedlings, and my tough-love watering policy to ensure that plants get their roots down quickly and don't become reliant on me constantly watering them.

The second part of the episode is me trying to unwind on the plot this evening after a really busy day. I spent my (brief) lunch break quickly moving my seedlings out of the heat of the greenhouse and taking panes out of the framework to cool it down. I answer a couple of questions I've received: one about my mini-digger plans and the other about my sweetpea spacings. I end with some thoughts about the importance of carving out time for yourself during this busy period of the year in order to stay calm and focused.

As always, it's just me talking directly to you on my cut flower journey. I really hope you enjoy the episode. The chickens make a few noisy interruptions too!

In this episode, join me on a hot spring day for chickens and a Q&A

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ How the newly-planted out nigella seedlings are getting on

✅ My tough-love policy when watering new seedlings and perennials

✅ How I cool my greenhouse down

✅ Seedling heat tolerance: who loves it hot and who doesn't?

✅ How I reconcile using a mini-digger with my No-dig policy

✅ Problems you can get with planting too close together

✅ Why it's so important to carve out time for yourself during busy times

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Join me on my journey through a year of growing and selling cut flowers. I'm going to give you the low-down on what it's really like, how I'm getting started, what you do and don't need, what I do when and why, the successes and failures, and just about everything in between. All in real time. With guest appearances from my chickens every now and then.

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By Lydia Watson

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