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have been a bit chilly, but you won't find me complaining — or my lovely little seedlings that are starting to grow.Everything on the plot is pretty rosy I must say. All the onions and shallots I planted are sprouting away happily. And only a few

I'm forever sowing vegetable seeds at the moment, and when I'm not sowing vegetable seeds I'm pricking out seedlings, both on my allotment and on the vegetable patch at work.I always seem to be behind, however, and last year I completely forgot

outside, due to the cold, frosty snap a couple of weeks ago. The seedlings have started to pop up, producing their strange, grass-like seed leaves. It's staggering to think these fragile babies turn into something so gigantic.It all goes to show what a

Once spring is sprung it really does get going! My plot is a mass of potato leaves creeping out over the mounds of ridged earth, seedlings sprouting sturdily out of the ground almost as I watch. But of course, there's a hearty selection of common

of veg seedlings set up on the window sill. The one in the living room was perfect – it's south-facing, so is bright and well lit. The trick with growing plants on a window sill is to turn them regularly so they don't grow towards the light in one

as their root systems aren't that big. The same applies to seedlings, but for lots of plants it's also essential to water them when they're in flower and early fruit set, as this helps to increase the size of your crop. Potatoes, beans and peas and most fruits

all the seedlings are tiny. I have two large watering cans so I can empty one while the other one fills to save time.I only water plants that look as if they might die - it's the 'tough love' school of vegetable growing! At work, I'm much kinder

planting, so it would take a very sharp frost indeed to damage my seedling spuds.

it's good to be getting something back into the lovely, clean beds. Hopefully, with the belated April showers we've been having lately, the seedlings will be up and away at a rate of knots, and young plants will be covering the ground before the weeds