Although some of the gourd seeds are up and putting out their next set of leaves, other seeds show no sign of sprouting at all. A few have sprouted out of their hard seed-casing but are still buried under the soil, slow to grow and to put up their first two leaves.
What these warm-loving plants need is a change to nice summery weather, without these cold wintry blasts of wind and driving rain.
I was hoping to plant some of them outside over the next few days, but maybe I will wait until they have a few more leaves and are a bit bigger and stronger.