It's time to get your sew on. Yes, the On the Ledge Sow Along is back.

And I'll be taking a first nervous dip into a very full on the ledge post bag. Growing houseplants from seed, have you ever given it a try? And why should you bother? Well, I have been trying to

convince my listeners to give this a go since the very start of On the Ledge podcast. The first

sew along happened in 2018, I believe. And if you want to go back and listen to those old

episodes, they're all in the show notes for you to enjoy. And I'm glad to say in the period

since then, sewing houseplants from seed has become a bit more popular. Here in the UK,

the seed company Unwins has recently launched a house plant seed range,

which is great news, making houseplant seeds more accessible to people buying seed catalogs

and looking online to buy their seeds.

Because until quite recently, it wasn't that easy to find a good range of house plants to grow from seed.

But this is something you really should try.

It has a number of advantages.

It's very cheap.

A packet of seeds does not set you back a lot of money, so if it all goes wrong, you've only lost a few quid and also it is the number one way to

really learn about your plants what are the rules well the good news is folks there are no rules

i am not a stickler in this regard so if you decide that you don't want to grow house plants from seed, that's cool by me.

If you decide you want to do vegetative propagation instead, that's taking cuttings,

I'd still love to hear about it.

There really are no restrictions on this, so you could sow 50 different types of of seed or just one or none. It's really

up to you because you are a responsible adult or maybe you're not. Maybe you're a responsible child like

I was as a child and you can just sow some seed and have some fun with it. I'd love to see what you grow.

So the main thing to remember is you can drop me an email at On the ledge podcast at

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