You know that my stoopid camera broke a few weeks ago, hence the ‘words only’ posts, but I have pinched a camera off my (disabled) dad - blind and a dickey ticker, as they say in ‘ello ‘ello, so was quite easy to pinch!
So, you now get a run down on whats happening, apart from the triffids (aka the runner beans) as the file is too large. I hate cameras and computers, i tell you! Maybe tomorrow…..

So here are my Tommys and peppers on the window cill (Note to self - do not let th’ubby see the actual window cill as he will realise there is most of the newspaper left on it from the plants there before! Oops. Needs sanding & repainting….). The ones on the right are from Homebase @ 99p each, and the ones on the left are grown by my own fair hands. The ones on the right look better….

Next on my window cill are sweat peas to the left, mange tout in the centre and some begonias on the right. As you can tell th’ubby not really too pleased with plants in house at mo…..

Next is my shed - okay working left to right we have:
#1 runners and dwarf green in loo roll
#2 Summer squash near the window
#3 winter squash next to the runners
#4 Tiger plants (rescued from tescos @ £4.50 for 60 plugs - sucker for a good deal)
#5 Large sunflowers
#6 My mangetout that are quite tall to the right
…and the base of new greenhouse lying on the lawn
Okay…next is:

The base of the foundations for my greenhouse. The brick riser to the right is an old tommy bed so that its raised. The new greenhouse is 2 ft longer than the old one, so the bricks lying in the ground to the left, to the right is some soil…well that is going to be another bed, but at a lower level. My dad is a retired structural engineer. This baby will withstand a nuclear blast! Should come in handy….

Next are my cardoons - Now, my not so fave guy Monty D (sorry, I love Mr T!) had cardoons a while ago in the long border and they are an artichoke familty member. They looked all large and majestic, so thought i would give them a try. I’ve lost one already, and another looks like its on the way out (to the right), but i’ll keep feeding it…..they are at the back of a flower bed, but they are ornamental and look quite large! Bringing veg to flowers.

These are my tulips in the veg patch that I have planted purely for cutting - Angelique - so they should be cut soon. (But as we celebrated 5 years of marriage on Monday just gone, I have a house full of flowers already - may give these away to next door….)

And finally, this is the Victoria Plum blossom that hopefully the frosts won’t kill, and I’ll get some plums this year - fingers crossed!
I had a friend of my dads round yesterday, a rather dour Welsh-man, but hot on veg! So, he suggested hardening off the veg - must get round to doing that - so that in a weeks time it can be planted out. I am going to get up early tomorrow and put out all the veg next to a brick wall that gets sun all day to harden off, as the weather looks poo, but the temps are better! He also said to start planting stuff out, but also making a small polytunnel of your own with long pieces of wood, either in the ground, or attached to raised beds, and clear visquine, so that should we have a frost, you can cover them slightly for a bit more protection. Good idea me thinks……
Phew, thats me over and out….hello…..are you still awake….??!!