But, whilst walking the dog this morning (some jobs always need doing, no matter how poorly), I noticed that someone had planted out their tomatoes outside. I realised that not only were mine miles behind, some of my seedlings were knocking their leggy heads on the ceiling of the incubator. So, I resolved to get it done. I should have been a bit more forgiving with myself and tried to do it in two stages,because suddenly I realised I had a lot of tomatoes. After the slug massacre I sowed some more seeds, and when they didn't come up I sowed another batch. When I didn't see these come up, I panicked and acquired more seeds. What's bullet proof, I asked, thumbing through the seed catalogue. I bought some Moneymaker and sowed them too. Within four or five days I had more seedlings than I knew what to do with from all of the seeds that I had tried. Cultivation rewards patience.
Anyway, I ran out of room to pot them all on, with all the other plants that needed to be moved on, in my incubator and my mini-g. I haven't thrown them out yet. When I get my sweetcorn, my purple sprouting broccoli and my cabbage on the way out the door, and start my second sowings of sweetcorn, I might see if they want to be potted on. Either way, the ones I've done today need to catch up! (...cultivation rewards patience..om...cultivation rewards patience...om...)
So in total today I potted:
- 5 sweetcorn (please be ready to go out this week)
- 6 savoy cabbage (2 too many)
- 8 leeks
- 4 parsnip
- 4 celeriac
- 4 oregano
- 3 chillies
- 2 alpine strawberries
- and a zillion tomatoes, OK, 20
That's enough. I'm going back to bed.
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