The Veggies are looking great!

Just popped in quick to blast up a quick blog post, as I realise how I have neglected blogging anything about my poor veg for the past few weeks.

Its day 52 now on the Paul Tranter Veg Garden, and they are all looking really good, I'm especially impressed with the amount of tomatoes and chillies we have coming through!

I have been taking loads of pictures over the last few weeks, and so I hope to get on later tonight and update you all on the last 40 days or so of my first year of vegetable growing. (Not a day by day account of course, that would be even more boring than this possibly already is)

Here's how some of them are coming along now...

Marcus Fenix by Cubeecraft: attempted by Paul Tranter (me!)

Hi all, so I had a quick blast at another Cubeecraft paper craft model over lunch, this time Marcus Fenix, and thought I'd share the results with you all...

So, here we have the template I printed off from the cubeecraft website, and its closely followed by my best attempts to create the head of Marcus Fenix in just a few minutes - speed was of the essence today as I have lots to get through (real work that is!)

Then it was onto the body, arms and legs....

and not forgetting his lancer of course! It's time to kick some locust ass! With a little help from his friends (also from cubeecraft.com!)

Just a quickie!

Hi all, just a quick one to apologise for lack of content this last week. I am really busy on client projects and so, after just two days of it my "Thought for the day" has already become a "thought for whenever!".

Oh well...

Have plenty of pics from my prospering crop to upload, hopefully get a chance tonight while Mandy is out with her best mate Diane.

Day 8: Plot have we here!

Just a quick update.

But an exciting one!

Shoots! I have my first Chillis, tomatoes and lettuce poking through - and yesterday I was saying how impatient I am! I love this growing lark...



Left to right: Lettuce (little gems), Tomato (beef), Chilli (Hot wax!)

Our official wedding photos from Andy Sutcliffe Photography

I thought it was about time to load up some photos from our wedding a few weeks ago (5 weeks to be exact!)

These were taken by Andy Sutcliffe, who both Mandy and I can highly recommend. It was such an amazing day, and I am so lucky to be married to such an amazing women - love you Mandy x

Day seven: Wot Plot?

Its only been a week I know, but I'm not the most patient of men...

There is not a single shoot on any of my seeds I've planted, but I have a spare two minutes while I'm waiting for some images to batch re-size and so I have decided to load some more images from my recent potting earlier this week.




But the ones my best mate Ben gave me a couple of weeks back are fairing better...



Plus I managed to scavange some deep pots to plant some baby carrots into as well as being a proud owner of a new 4 tier mini greenhouse.

Day one: The plot begins

And so it finally started last night, with some cheap seed trays from Woolworths (before they went bust), a bag full of the best organic compost I could buy, some veg feed, some plastic spikes to label my crop and a pencil.

All I needed was my seeds, and with not a lot of time to get them sowed last night (it was already 8.45pm) I opted to get my tomatoes planted, and then focus on the four varieties of chilli peppers I'm attempting this year! They include one called Hot Wax which sounds very exciting!

And so, by 10.20pm I was finished, I job well done I hope! Having never attempted to grow such large quantities of seedlings before I'll guess we'll have to wait and see how we get on.

I'll be keeping this story updated regularly with notes and photos, and any tips I pick up. In the next few days I should be sowing my other veg, including; carrots, spring onions, courgettes, beans, and also a blueberry bush!



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