Blog — vegetables

...today I have...

• planted some strawberry runners (with a little help and advice from some lovely twitter peeps)


• purchased some seed potatoes and also a bag to grow them in, however the bag is way too big, not too tall but too wide, it won't fit where I want it to without causing a massive obstruction!


• sown some spinach seeds

I also have another little sprout! This time it's the green basil-which...

...yesterday I  sowed a few more seeds....

• chives


• red pear tomatoes


• orange berry tomatoes


• costoluto florentino tomatoes


• tigerella tomatoes


• ildi tomatoes


• san marzano tomatoes


• cucumber


• hot chilli


• thyme


• mustard 

I put the cucumber, thyme and chilli under a propagator and put some cling film on top of the chive pot but the rest are open and all are currently sitting on various window sills around the house. Milo...

Milo and I headed out in the beautiful spring sunshine today to get ourselves some more seeds and pots.  After a lot of time spent picking up various seed packets and after a lot of old ladies had come to admire Milo we finally headed off with our new investments.

I now have...

• 6 types of tomato


• thyme


• chive


• spring onion


• cucumber


• mustard


• rocket


• spinach

...seeds to sow.

Hopefully they will find themselves in...

I've had a couple fairly disastrous attempts at gardening over the past couple of years, but despite that I'm going to give it another go!  As I'm actually on time for starting this year (something that may have been biggest problem in the past) and as I'm at home most of everyday now, I figure this year should be much more successful than the years gone by!

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