Growbags are so ugly....

...but great for growing tomatoes in. 

I grow my tomatoes in the greenhouse (you can of cause grow them just as well against a sheltered south facing wall) the problem I had last summer that although I dug in a load of organic matter my soil wasn't really good enough. So I've bought growbags, the thing is I find the bright red and yellow plastic a bit of a turn off. So I've half buried some large pots-in the soil, in the greenhouse and filled them with growbag soil-it looks alright! The pots hopefully won't dry out too much as they are sunken but the soil should be good enough. I'll let you know how I get on!

I've raked in some chicken pellets this year, I normally dig out my friends manure pile but to be honest-life is too short to get old horse poo under your nails on such a glorious day like today (It's 21 degrees here today!).

So my lovely garden is already to go, I'm planning on planting my potatoes next week.

Happy gardening.

Brunch before a days racing at Cheltenham

Oh dear, bang goes the bikini diet!

You can't go to Cheltenham races on an empty stomach though (that's my excuse).

Waffles, bacon, mushrooms, hash browns, scambled eggs, tomatoes, beans, sausages...I think that's about it....oh yeah champagne :)

My garden plan 2012

I'm on my fourth year using the raised beds. I only have three beds so I am doing a three year crop rotation. I've just dug out my past garden plans and have based this years plans on 2009.
I've written up my garden diary and feel happy with the things I'm growing. I might put a few tomatoes outside the greenhouse this year aswell as inside and see how they do. I could do with knocking up some sort of netted lid for the strawberry bed ( not on this plan). 


I'm now going to have a look at the state of my seeds, see what I need to go and buy.


I will need to dig some manure of some kind into the soil, probably well rotted horse poo from my friend. Failing that I shall buy chicken pellets-certainly a lot cleaner and easier...I think I've just convinced myself!


I'll do my next blog once I start planting- potatoes in a week or two.


Happy planning x