It's a bit of a strange one this year isn't it but I do hope you were able to enjoy the day. Tony and I popped up the road to our little local plant nursery and I treated myself to a new pedestal planter. It was an absolute bargain at £9.99
It's not particularly strong but it's nice and deep at 12" and will be ideal for my 'Micro Tom' tomatoes. My plan is to leave the planter in the conservatory with a large tray underneath. It means that I won't need to worry about hardening off the tiny toms as they won't be going outdoors. Last year I grew tomatoes and cucumbers in the conservatory but they weren't the micro variety and the plants grew to be enormous. I was really fed up of them by the end of summer and was glad to cut them all down. This year my tall tomato plants and cucumbers are going out in the garden. I haven't started sowing tomatoes yet as experience tells me that later sowings quickly catch up and I won't have them on the windowsills for as long before they can go outdoors. I have started cucumbers though and they are just starting to break the surface of the compost. By the time they need potting on I will have put a lot of the brassicas out into their final places in the veg beds. Then I'll concentrate on sowing some of the more tender varieties of veg and flowers.
I should probably start things, too. I picked up a couple of rhubarb bulbs today. I plan to plant them up at the cabin. I have a couple established plants at the cottage. I got some dahlias, too.
ReplyDeletePerfect for tumbling tomatoes (I'm assuming they are trailing) and useful for so many things in the future as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree that later sowings of tomatoes don't suffer and my experience is that they carry on fruiting later too.
You're well ahead of things - great!
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Lovely present! Hope you had a wonderful day.
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