Hot in the city tonight

Finally! The sun has put his hat on and come out to play.

Things seem to be on the up this week, so much so that I've been down 3 days out of 5 to water stuff. Now that's commitment.

On my first midweek trip down I was greeted by a couple of gifts from our pal Michael. He was nice enough to leave us a tray of 20 sprouted cauliflowers and something labelled 'Primo' but I'm not entirely sure what they are. Possibly broccoli, I don't know. 

He'd also gifted us some form of tool that cuts plugs out of the soil for planting seed plugs. 

There were also a couple of potato growing sacks that I'm assuming were also from Michael but they could have blown over from someone else's plot. Either way, what a legend!

Gifts, gifts, gifts

Due to the improved climate things are happening a lot quicker in the old greenhouse. The sprouts are looking even better as you'll see below so that means Xmas is covered:

Due to my allotment buddy having a day at the rugby, I popped along on my lonesome (boohoo) to Homebase. They were doing 15% off everything, so 6 strawberry plants for under a fiver seemed a pretty good deal. I grabbed those plus a few more packs of seeds.

I ended up getting beets, radishes, broad beans and runner beans to sow out. 

The strawberry patch now looks like this:

The seeds I mentioned were sown directly into the soil seeing as the worst of the cold weather seems to be behind us. 

I think I've done a pretty 'professional/impressive/other superlative' job on it too, with the aid of 2 canes, a length of twine and a hoe.

In these 2 beds from left to right we have:

• Beets
• Radishes
• Runner bean 
• Broad beans

I reckon now that we're on such a roll that these are 100% going to come through and be successful. Time will tell...

Other greenhouse highlights for any horticultural pervs are below:

Leggy tomato plants 

A cheeky sweetcorn poking his head out

A young, sweet pepper plant

Another tall, slim, sweet pepper sprout

Onions showing their tops off

The herby triplets teasing us with their small shoots

Leeks, chives and other unknowns hangin' out by the pool

My beatuiful chilli seedling finally showing us what she's got

Finally, a little rhubarb blushing coyly