New additions

My final lot of plants arrived today; aubergines, chillis and more cucumbers (alot bigger than the last lot, which I mostly killed anyway, although I am extremely attached to my tiny survivors).

The new cucumbers are in with the old ones (and will probably completely overpower them). The aubergines (which Girl Lacer very ably helped plant, including one all on her own) are in the greenhouse as well (hopefully they’ll be ok, it’s not a very warm greenhouse) and the chillis are on my bedroom window sill. If these all produce vegetables, I could potentially have quite a lot, what with 10 chilli plants, 10 aubergines, currently 8 cucumber plants, 3 dwarf french bean, 2 peppers and the quite unbountiful amount of 10 carrots. I also have countless salad plants but I’m a bit worried about some of them, they were under fleece but I think the spinach and the cos and lollo rosso, which were near the edges and therefore had more fleece bunched over them, were suffering from lack of light, I’ve taken the fleece off, hopefully the cold / birds don’t get them, I’m wondering about a scarecrow lol! But on the bright side the mizuna and rocket are doing well and they are actually what I eat the most of anyway!

So, with all this after nursery planting, the kids got their tea late, not that they complained too much at the time, as they were both having fun in the garden. Girl Lacer was helping me plant and Boy Lacer, who I had thought was confined to the back door as I thought he couldn’t get down the rather tricky back door step, proved he could get down the rather tricky back door step, so he was gaily running round the garden with just a nappy and a t-shirt on, no shoes and discovering the neighbour annoying game, at the grand age of 2 1/2 of ‘bounce the ball against the wooden fence’, how long before I have to get to know my neighbours even better as I’ll be round there all the time retrieving balls!