It’s a bit of a mixed bag of success and failure this week, but that is the way gardening goes and also some of why I enjoy it as you always learn from the failure.

I’ll get the failures out of the way first. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve potted up many of my seedlings into bigger pots. Most are ok and some are doing amazing, but a few have died or have been dug up by my very cute but very mischievous little ball of fur, Cuddles the cat. She has taken to doing a bit of digging or lying in a couple these particular pots and as a result the seedlings have had a sad end to life.

Another failure has been from rain. I use coir pots to sow my seeds into. A couple of weeks ago we had some fairly heavy rain and these pots with freshly sown seeds in disintegrated and washed most things away. Again, that’s just the way it can happen sometimes!

As for successes, there are some of these too. Even though most of the seeds did get washed away by the rain, I found a couple that germinated within the actual coir pots-an onion seedling and a broccoli seedling. I promptly potted these into the bigger pots and they are still alive, which is good.

Last weekend I did sow more seeds, including cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, pumpkin, cucumber, tomatoes, chillies and capsicums. Many of these have now germinated and are growing well so far.

I am also happy with how well another cucumber plant is growing. It got potted up about three weeks ago and it is now thriving.

The weather is lovely and warm at the moment which is also good, with the sun shining. Overall I’m quite happy with my garden despite my wayward cat’s efforts at digging up stuff!