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Plant A Seed

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  Planting seeds in the spring for a green summer and autumn.  Jeanie Fair April 2023 | 5 min read     Harry planting pepper seeds for our window ledges. When To Plant Seeds? Its April, and this is the time of year we plant our seeds. I am not exactly green fingered myself so I am really enjoying learning about plants alongside Teddy and Harry. For the last few years, we have made April a month to focus on planting seeds and performing simple investigations to understand how they grow. We pour a load of soil onto our tuff tray, find all the pots and planting trays from the shed and talk about which seeds we will plant and where around the house they should go. The sunflower seeds coming up. Which Seeds To Plant? We have had success in growing a few different plants from seeds including sunflowers, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkin and of course, cress! We don’t have a garden space to plant lots of seeds so for us it needs to be something simple which can fit on sunny window sill. This suits u