Hello and welcome to a rainy Tuesday 13 January 2026.

Lots of things going on at the moment including a broken inner car door handle, more rain than I thought possible, outrageously elevated hormone levels and getting into the Alpine spirit with home-made Tartiflette.

Crop planning started in earnest today and I'd like to share my thoughts with you on this episode. I started out with an enormous list of plants I planned to grow (which needed revising down to start with) and ended with a concise (and far more manageable) list. But the actual 'seed-starting dates' element of the planning has yet to be done so that's for another episode.

Today I have been using a very useful collection of free crop planning tools from Johnny Seeds (link below) which calculate seed starting dates based on your desired harvest date. Have a look - it might make your planning quicker and easier.

LINKS

https://www.johnnyseeds.com/growers-library/online-tools-calculators.html

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