Remember those Blue Peter totalizers? I thought it would be fun/scary to track how many plants I propagate this year. I’m only counting them once pricked out (for seedlings) and growing on for both seedlings and cuttings. Growing on for a cutting would be rooted and potted up individually and for a seedling would either be potted up or in modules, I might stretch a point if pricked out seedlings are a good size but doing ok in the trays. Garden ready is what it sounds like, ready to harden off and plant out, sell, or desperately foist on bemused friends family and passers by!
The scores on the doors as at last weekend were
- Pricked out – 166
- Growing on – 181
- Garden ready – 28
Giving a grand total of 375 free or nearly free plants. This is already a quantity I will struggle to manage so frankly that’s an intimidating number.
I’ll attempt to update this inventory twice a month (ish) through the year. I will have losses of course, stocks may go down as well as up!
I’ll be back in a couple of weeks then, with an update on the running total.
The Propagator 
Wow! That’s a lot of plants. Do you have plans for them? Are you going to hold a plant sale? Will you be guerilla gardening and secretly plant them out around the neighbourhood?
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The most sobering aspect is that this is just the opening balance! And I haven’t included the veg. Barring catastrophic losses, this total will only get bigger. Laughs hysterically. I have some garden planning to do which will take care of some, but really not many. I will take some to a plant sale in may, the Berks group of the HPS hold a sale. I may do a driveway sale. I’ll foist a bunch onto neighbours, family etc. Although, my mothers response to ‘I’ll have more helenium than I know what do with’ was a rather sniffy ‘not my colours’. Oooohhhh, la-de-dah! I may encroach on the bit of verge between my front wall and the pavement, the front garden has a useless lawn I might dig up and plant up. Containers? Worse case I can freegle a bunch of stuff. Those are all actually second order problems. The first order problem is insufficient space in the greenhouse, and even less in the cold frame. Still, its about the journey, not the destination…
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