Blog — gardening

...today I have...

Planted some new potatoes and earthed up the old ones which, from above the soil at least, look like their doing really well.

And discovered a little yellow flower on one of my cucumber plants! 

This is very exciting indeed, especially as two of my cucumber plants were moved outside when we literally ran out of room inside and unfortunately have not survived.

...so when I did all my research on growing tomatoes there were a couple of things I forgot to investigate. Mainly, how big will my plants grow, how successful will my seeds be, how many plants can I really look after/fit in our small terraced house and very small outside space??

The answer to the final question would probably have been, 4, maybe 6 at a push. How many do actually have? Hmmmm about...

...so I have been fairly terrible at keeping this up to date! In fact completely useless and it has been well over a month since I have blogged!

I have however been super busy planting seeds and tending to the seedlings and my terrace is beginning to look lovely indeed.

I currently have growing...

• tomatoes (a LOT of them)


• cucumber


• spinach


• carrots


• onions


• garlic


• strawberries


• various lettuce leaves


• beetroot


• caul...

...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...

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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