Grow Your Own Magazine

We had our first tomato this week - a Bloody Butcher fruit from an outdoor plant sown in late January. There are about three others that are ripening well (on two plants) but there will be a gap before any other varieties are ready. Next will be some Golden Sunrise by the look of it, then maybe Olivade or some of the tumbling Gartenperle.

It's definitely the earliest tomato I've had but it remains to be seen if it as tasty as those which ripen later.

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I originaly started my garden back in March...

I began by sowing carrot seeds from one of those propagator sets from the pound shop...and some how I have become obsessed with gardening.

I used to HATE going outside, left the gardening to my hubby (a gardener by trade), and our poor garden was lucky if we managed to plant a few flowers in it each year.

Now?

I am claiming every inch of garden to grow veg; I've pulled up paving stones, dug...

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