This year we have decided to stick to our 3 favourite tomato varieties:
Black Cherry and Bejbino are cordons and Garden Pearl is a bush-type. I sowed 6 seeds of each. The Black Cherry seeds are now 8 years out of date(!) but all the seeds germinated last year so I am hoping they will this year too!
Usually we sow some sweet peas for cut flowers. However, from July onwards they are always covered in pollen beetles and despite our best efforts at removing them (shaking the flowers and leaving them in the garage/greenhouse overnight before bringing them into the house) the beetles get everywhere! I thought this year we would try some zinnias so on Wednesday I sowed 12 seeds into a tray:
At the moment we are experiencing a cold snap which is expected to continue for the rest of the week with temperatures down to minus 5 or 6 at night and only 5 or 6 degrees during the day. Our pots of spring bulbs have been frozen solid for the past few days, but before the sub-zero night-time temperatures two of our dwarf Iris Reticulata came into flower so hopefully spring is on its way:
We are still picking leeks from the allotment, seen in the foreground of the below pic:
Last year (end of March?) we were given a free garlic bulb from our local allotment shop that they did'nt manage to sell. I'm not sure on the variety but in Autumn green shoots finally came up and now the plants look quite strong:
Here is a view of our allotment from the other side:
We will have a bit of digging to do when the weather improves.
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