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+title: Garden seeds sewn!
+date: 2026-04-08T20:19:15.174Z
+slug: 2026-04-08-garden-seeds-sewn
+author: Thomas Wilson-Cook
+tags:
+  - journal
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+After some time away (e.g. for the Easter weekend), I recommend taking an extra day's leave, if possible.  Having a day in your own space to do your laundry, *actually* unpack your bags, drink coffee out of your favourite mug.  The luxury.
+
+On the first (of two!) genuinely warm days of 2026's spring, the household has sewn a not inconsiderable number of seeds.  All flowers this year, well, excepting the two tomato plants who made their way home from the garden centre - heaven knows what they were doing there in the first place, honestly.
+
+There are cottage garden flowers, flowers for dyeing, historically medicinal flowers.  Mostly I just hope they don't provide cover for the bindweed.  It's an extra bonus if they're nice to look at, and calming to be around.  
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+This is the first spring in a house that I own.  Although terrifying (surely we won't have to make a *third* major replacement) - it's nice to enjoy some up-sides.  Like the optimism of sewing seeds you hope to plant out, and watch grow.
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