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Allotmenting:: And so it begins ::
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Trusses and violas!
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I have some of my first trusses appearing on my tomato plants!
![tomato trusses tomato trusses](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1374/4603736177_ea0a30ba80.jpg)
So exciting!
![tomato trusses tomato trusses](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4603738433_bddbe1ce4c.jpg)
I also bought myself a few violas today.
![violas violas](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3315/4603740541_74b9917855.jpg)
I am completely in love with the black molly sanderson's.
Johnny feels growing flowers is wasted time and space (which is of course nonsense) so I am restricting myself to only edible flowers!
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March 4th 2010...
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...today I have...
![gardening 04.03.10 gardening 04.03.10](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4405804055_57af968c61.jpg)
- 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
![gardening 04.03.10 gardening 04.03.10](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2782/4406569934_bcbbf30396.jpg)
I also have another little sprout! This time it's the green basil-which...
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new seeds and pots...
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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.
![spring!](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4398331524_afe0929b87_b.jpg)
I now have...
- 6 types of tomato
- thyme
- chive
- spring onion
- cucumber
- mustard
- rocket
- spinach
...seeds to sow.
Hopefully they will find themselves in...