The sowing season is now very much upon us, and this weekend we sowed our Machu Picchu Chilli Pepper seeds.

It was a very simple process, and didn’t involve anything out of the ordinary! 

First of all we filled the seed tray with seed and modular compost (which is much finer than regular compost, therefore ideal for sowing).

Our next step was to use a block of wood to flatten out/compress the compost…

Then, we carefully placed the seeds on top of the compost, an equal distance apart – and pressed them down a little.

Once they’d been pressed down, the seed tray was covered with vermiculite, as shown below…

It’ll now go onto the propagator until the seeds are showing – which will be roughly 2 weeks (hopefully!).

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In other news, we had a little check on our early new potatoes, and whilst we had to move out a little soil before we could find them – they’re certainly not far away from showing!