Don't sow sweetpeas inside thinking "I don't have mice". You might come down one day to find all your seedlings will have been neatly severed and devoured, despite never having seen a mouse in the house in nine years of occupancy or any previous evidence of one until that day.
And don't think that because petunia seedlings are your in your bloody kitchen, that you won't come down at 2am and find a blasted slug with a full belly having a rest on your seed tray after a 23 course meal. All seedlings razed, despite never having seen a slug in your kitchen before.
Don't ever feel intimidated by doing up your front garden just because it's on public display. Go for it! Grow veg there if you feel like it, experiment, mix things up, put in structures, as you might in the back. It's a valuable space for you and wildlife and your community. (Putting in a front garden tap can help enormously. Don't wait ten years to put one in. ).
This comment brought back so many good memories.  Way back in the early 70’s, we moved into a house which needed a lot of work. The back garden was so over grown it took us weeks to find we had an apple tree in the garden. With a one year old and one month old, we needed to grow veg, to help with the very tight budget. The only uncluttered area was a small front garden. We grew onions, carrots, beans cannot remember what else. This village in Gloucestershire had seen nothing like it! But tell you what, we had lots of people stop and stare, and met a lot of nice people. Obviously there were the tut tutters but most were just lovely folk, who welcomed us.
@coccinella - that sounds wonderful. There is a set of five cottages near me that open with the NGS - with five conjoined back gardens. Some of those front gardens have raised beds and are full of veg. It's so inspiring and led me to overhaul my own front garden and put in raised beds - though only for flowers at this point. They are my favourite local gardens with lovely owners and great cake!
Don’t look at last years Facebook posts, it’s depressing…. This time last year I apparently already had beautiful flowers in my boxes, and my first strawberries…..no blinking hope of that for a few weeks yet this year!
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