Today the weather looked fantastic from inside the house so with great enthusiasm I went up to the allotment this morning only to find that the ground was completely frozen! So no digging and it was still frozen when I left at midday, apparently it was -6c last night! Still I had my nicely dug potato beds under cover so was able to get a fork in there and so transplanted my rhubarb into the end of that bed and had a general clear up.
Then I came home to sow my tomato seeds, last year I grew hundreds because I had found lots of packets that were about 5 years out of date and they nearly all germinated! This year I limited myself, I had 7 varieties, Tumbling Tom, Gardeners Delight, Golden Sunrise, Marmande, Tigerella, Alicante and Moneymaker. I sowed 6 seeds of each except Tumbling Tom as I only had 2 seeds so we shall see how many germinate this year. I grew all these last year except Tumbling Tom and they all did well except Marmande where they were a bit pulpy. Personally I have never found a tomato to my taste so have to rely on my wife to eat them all and pass comment.
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Thank you for visiting my blog. I have also sown my tomato seeds, though I don't grow quite as many as you. Good luck for the coming season, I will enjoy following your progress.
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