Tomatoes Planted

Over the past week I have been planting out the Tomatoes at the front of the allotment (see above). There are 18 plants in total, 6 each of Gardeners Delight, Golden Sunrise and Sungold. They are all cherry tomato varieties, Red, Orange and Yellow respectively. Each plant is tied to a 6ft cane with plenty of manure dug into the soil.


I have also been training the runners on the Strawberry plants into pots of compost. They are held into position with a U-shaped piece of garden wire and hopefully they will root and grow in the pots until I am ready to start a new strawberry bed in the autumn. This worked well last year and allowed me to start a second bed this year. At the end of the season I intend to pull up my original strawberry bed to make way for a shed (thanks Becks!), and start a new strawberry bed just next to where it currently is.


Last night I picked the first Courgette of the year. They were planted out on 11th May, and just a month later they've started producing Courgettes. This one is a little smaller than I'd normally pick, but I couldn't resist. There are several more that are nearly ready. I'm also still picking strawberrys (although they've slowed down a bit now) and raspberrys (which are coming faster now).