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...

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!)

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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