March 4th 2010...

...today I have...

• planted some strawberry runners (with a little help and advice from some lovely twitter peeps)


• purchased some seed potatoes and also a bag to grow them in, however the bag is way too big, not too tall but too wide, it won't fit where I want it to without causing a massive obstruction!


• sown some spinach seeds

I also have another little sprout!  This time it's the green basil-which looks fairly massive compared to the little purple basil sprouts!

Despite then fact majority of my pots are still inside on sunny window sills looking after little seeds, the terrace is starting to look fairly good! I can't wait for that whole space to be full up with pots and plants!

Sprouts!

OK so only some very small ones and only purple basil and mustard, but it's still very exciting!

I've also taken a few pictures of the terrace in the midst of it's gardening make over.

This is the end that is all lovely and tidy and clear...

and this is the other end where all the pots and rubbish have been moved to!

Eventually of course it will all be lovely and tidy and clear and full of wonderful healthy plants!

These are the bulbs that are popping up, I'm not sure what they are yet-can't wait for them to flower.

And this funny looking mini palm tree is actually the remnants of a parsley plant I rescued from a pot that had been up on the terrace since last summer.  It had such a big thick trunk I thought it might be worth trying to revive it. I've repotted it and taken off all the dead and dying leaves and I have my fingers crossed for it's progress.

what I sowed on march 1st...

...yesterday I  sowed a few more seeds....

• chives


• red pear tomatoes


• orange berry tomatoes


• costoluto florentino tomatoes


• tigerella tomatoes


• ildi tomatoes


• san marzano tomatoes


• cucumber


• hot chilli


• thyme


• mustard 

I put the cucumber, thyme and chilli under a propagator and put some cling film on top of the chive pot but the rest are open and all are currently sitting on various window sills around the house.  Milo and I go round every morning after breakfast watering those that need it and looking out for sprouts-so far there are none at all, even the mustard seeds don't seem to be doing anything yet. Of course it's still very early to be hoping to see anything I'm sure.

Today, whilst Milo had a super long nap (due to being up most of the night!), I started work on clearing the roof terrace.  It still had the very sad remnants of last years failed gardening up there.  I now have a lot of pots ready for new plants and quite a lot more space than I remembered there being.  I also have a few bulbs starting to emerge from pots that were left up there by the previous owners, which I'm looking forward to.

new seeds and pots...

Milo and I headed out in the beautiful spring sunshine today to get ourselves some more seeds and pots.  After a lot of time spent picking up various seed packets and after a lot of old ladies had come to admire Milo we finally headed off with our new investments.

I now have...

• 6 types of tomato


• thyme


• chive


• spring onion


• cucumber


• mustard


• rocket


• spinach

...seeds to sow.

Hopefully they will find themselves in pots/seed trays by the end of today-as long as the little one has a nice long nap!

I was oh so close to buying some seed potatoes but was under the impression they needed very very deep pots to live in, however my sister tells me they don't need to be as deep as I imagined, so they are very much top of my list next time I find myself down the garden centre.