Summer Leaves

It's getting nearer to summer, although if you went by the weather you couldn't tell, and so it's time to start planting all that fresh summer produce. On buying Good Food magazine this month, I received my free tomato and basil seeds, and in Lakeland, a free pack of salad leaves.

I love the evenings this time of year and was able to go out after the rain had finally stopped yesterday, at about 6pm, to plant up a few pots. I made 6 pots for the basil, but only planted up three in the hope that if I remember, I can plant a new one each week for the next three and therefore have successional sowing and basil for the whole of the summer! Like I said, that's only if I remember! As for the salad leaves, there were hardly any in the pack, so I scattered them in a pot I can put outside the back door and we'll see what happens. I might even buy another mixed pack and add it in later today. With the tomatoes I went for the easy option and slit open a bag of compost, scattered the seeds in a straight line and gave them a little water, leaving on the greenhouse shelf.

Usually, tomatoes are the domain of the boyf, but he hates the 'getting things out' and 'tidying things away' strand of gardening. So this year I cheated and bought him a Suttons easy-grow kit! All he has to do is water the compost pellets, pop the seeds in, cover with the little plastic lid and transfer them to the garden when they're big enough. Oh yeah, and weed, rake over and add compost to the outside bed before its needed...