Why can’t I ever get sweetpeas to germinate? I think I only ever germinated one, several years ago. This time I tried the baggie method, where you wrap the soaked seeds in a damp sheet of kitchen roll, and place it in a baggie, but four days later and nothing is happening.

I think one is actually getting mouldy. I am never buying sweetpeas again.

We had a really sunny spell a few days ago, so I sowed some pepper seeds — I’m not bothering with eggplants anymore — and I was hoping the warmth (I turned off the heating during the day. It was 26 degrees) would get things going, but of course, I fell for false spring again, because it’s back to overcast.

We have a repeat visitor in our garden from last winter.

This is a grey wagtail, and they are non-stop bobbing their tails up and down. It’s so cute!

It’s always strange when we get uncommon visitors like this. At the moment, we only get tubbies and we have a pair of robins, plus the usual woodpigeons and ferals. I haven’t seen any blackbirds, dizzies or wrens at all this year.