Although this season is almost over, my balcony is slowly filling with new pots and trays. I’ve decided to do a big change in my gardening. No more empty garden during the winter. I will try to keep the garden alive during the whole year, with the exception of the snow period. I already bought onion sets, winter lettuce, I have sown summer leek for winter leek seedlings, and I have chard seedlings also ready for transplanting and early spring harvest. 

I’ll be showing some of the vegetables indoors around Christmas to have early seedlings ready for February and March. 

After ordering my new seeds I also decided to go through my seed bags quickly and see if there’s anything that can be sown now. I’ve decided to sow Aloe vera and Cactuses. They will be kept in the house so it really doesn’t matter when they are sown. I’ve also decided to do a small experiment and I’ve sown Salvia, Digitalis, Dianthus, and Pyrethrum. Usually, these are plants that are sown in spring or early summer, but due to the cold summers and short seasons many times it happens that they don’t get the time to bloom. So I decided to sow them now and will try keeping them inside during the winter. I have enough seeds to sow them again in spring, but I want to see if the early sowing will help them bloom faster.