My Birthday Update!

Well, hello again! Since I have a new cordless keyboard and an unrelated new cordless optical mouse (no expense spared in this house!) that have seperate receivers it was hitherto impossible for me to use either of those with the card reader I use to upload photos to here. Skippy came to the rescue and provided a 4-way hub which means you can, once more, view the goings on in full Technicolour©! Thank you, again, Skip!

We now have babies on this tomato plant! It resides on the back, South facing wall of the house (between the loo and the bathroom windows) where it never really gets chilled because the wall acts like a large storage radiator at this time of the year. This means there is a lot of watering activity the second the rain stops - because no matter how much it rains, hanging baskets gain no benefit, apparently.

This is the current state of the "Black" toms in the greenhouse. They were a present from a friend and I was terrified they were going to die - as these things tend to happen, don't they? However, they are growing away beautifully and have plenty of potential fruit. As with all the other toms, I am being very diligent about pinching-out the side shoots. I didn't do this the last time I grew them and ended up with a beautiful hedge with no flowers or fruit!

I've been looking around the "grounds" (LOL!) at the various plants growing away and then looked in the garage and found this pile of seeds. "I'm sure we haven't planted this many things!" I thought to myself. Then I went thru the pile and we have! There are Butternut and Crown Prince Squash, Early and Maincrop peas, cauliflower, sweetcorn, swede, savoy cabbage, garlic, courgettes, runner beans, purple french beans, sweet peppers,

chilli, leeks, broad beans, lettuce,

cucumber, radishes, blinkin' tomatoes by the hundred, raspberries, strawberries, beetroot, spinach, chard, carrots and salsify. So quite a few!

That's all for now, then. I is orf to enjoy what's left of my Birthday (on this dreary Sunday Afternoon) and to do some research on the Welsummer Hens I shall be getting as a Birthday Prezzie from The Bloke!

Chin chin!