Today is my first blog.

I moved house recently and whilst I had a garden before I always had to do the obligatory jobs like cutting the grass and just trying to keep everything tidy whilst looking after the kids and running them here there and everywhere.

Now I have time to take full interest in the garden and want to make the most of it before my ailing health takes over.

I started sowing about the middle of April, as a complete newbie to the veg market. I was picking runner beans in June and enjoying dwarf beans, had a reasonble crops of courgettes, disappointingly small cauliflowers and swede that got taken over by large cabbage whites. Oh the mistakes! but I am learning.

Also, I had the most incredible crop of tomatoes in the greenhouse (well its a plastic one joined on to my shed) and never realised that tomatoes could taste so heavenly. Rarely did any of them get on a plate as I would pick and eat them as I went along. They were a variety called Sweet Million.They are still ripening well and I will have them next year.

I now realise that to get spring bedding plants I have to sow in Jan/Feb time, as my lobelias only went out in July and took a long time to grow.

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