My first seeds that I need to be sowing are tomato and chilli seeds. This is because the growing season is very short in the United Kingdom. In London, I have found it an advantage to start well before spring arrives. Therefore, this February has seen me taking out my tomato and chilli seeds for […]
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Sowing seeds indoors – chillies and tomatoes
Sowing seeds indoors has become a tradition for the months before spring even begins! This is particularly so for chillies and tomatoes. I like to sow these seeds early so that the chillies and tomatoes have time to ripen in the summer heat. Sowing chilli seeds indoors I have had great success growing chillies in […]
Training My Tomato Plants
Now that all my tomato plants are well settled in their new patio planters and a few in the raised bed, they are really lush with beautiful growth! All that glorious sunshine and certainly the bouts of rain have helped my tomato plants enormously in putting on a great growth spurt. The varieties I have […]
Tomatoes and Chillies Settled Outdoors
It was only the other day I wondered whether the spindly tomato seedlings were ever going to make it outdoors and now arrives the day when the weather is so welcoming to these sturdy green plants all ready for their stay in the garden! They have all been hardened with their day visits outside for the […]