Spanish version 
It is still too cold in the patio to sow any seeds, but we really want to start the vegetables garden, so we have decided to make our own seedbed inside the house, so we can see the seeds become sprouts and if we are luchy they will be strong enough to be trasplanted into the flowerpots when the weather becomes better and we have no risk of icing. We have just started January, and although the weather here in Barcelona is quite nice we have to be aware that there it is too soon to relax and a cold days are still around and can come back.
During last year we have been collecting seeds in different places and from different sources and now we have a small selection of those who we want to sow (and we never found time to put in a flowerpot before and let grow).
It has been a little difficult to understand the symbols in the seeds packages and also how to sow them, when, how and where. In the end we decided the months in wellow where the good ones and we took the risk with lettuces, tomatoes, carrots, aubergines, chards, basil, spinach and a chili that we have sow from a dry chili and we have no guarantees if it will come out.
About where to sow the seeds, there are in the market some wonderful seedbeds where you put one or two seeds in each small depertment and when they sprout you have them ready to be moved into the ground or in our case into a flowerpot, but we haven’t got one of them so we had to find a cheaper alternative, and what we have done is save the yougurt plastic container and cut the bottom of plastic bottles and a water carafe to use them as seedbeds.
It is quite likely that we find problems later to move the sprouts, but now what we are more interested in is in getting the seeds to grow, see what problems may appear and learn. All the seedbed thing is an experiment.
BEcause we won’t water too much the earth from the seedbed we won’t need holes in the bottom of the plastic recipients. This time we have put earth in them to the middle more or less.
After that, we hace scattered the seeds in each one of them, leaving behind the recipient the seeds package so we could know wich one was each and put a sign later with the name of the plant and the date we sow the seeds. Some sprouts can look very similar and it is a good idea to have them identified so we can give the plant its correct treatment from the beginning, it won’t be good to leave in the sun a plant that needs only some light and by the time we find out the mistake it may be too late.
We have to recognize thay we were very enthusiastic about shattering seeds and maybe it was enough with half or even less the amount of seeds we sow, but once we realized this it was too difficult to start getting them out the seedbed, so we will see how things go when dozens of sprouts come out of each recipient.
Once the seeds where shattered we covered them with more earth, like 2 oe 3 cm. It was a good earth, rich in nutrients. It is even better if you can find earth special for seedbeds, but we had a quite big sack of COMPO with seems to be quite good. Once we have this we need to carefully water the new seeds.
Once the seeds sprout they will be very delicate, and we don’t want to damage them while watering, nor to make holes in the earth because ir is very loose (we don’t have to press it once we put it in the seedbed) so we decided to water with a spray bottle. You can find it in many shops, they don’t need to be specific for gardening.
And last thing to do is to make a sign with a piece of paper with the name of the plant, the date we sow the seeds and fix it with celotape to the plastic container. And now, all we have to do is wait for them to sprout and water them a little bit every day as they need humidity yo germinate 🙂
Our Mediterranean vegetable garden 