Step 2 completed and planting list

Before the glorious morning turned rather surprisingly into a soggy afternoon I managed to complete the second part of the edging for my new borders/vegetable patch (excuse the blurry pic, I was rushing to not get soaked). Unfortunately I wasn't able to move the irises and some of the bigger things like I hoped to. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for next weekend; I am running far behind schedule and some things actually have to go in soon.


In the meantime, my potatoes are chitting on the windowsill in the kitchen and I added some garlic cloves in the hope that they sprout. I also had a seed swap with Karesansui-san where I steadfastly refused brassicas (I remember trying to grow them before in this garden, absolute failure, probably clubroot) and tomato seed (vowed to get plants to avoid leggy windowsill-babies). Suffice to say that a quick dip into the local garden center ruined the second promise - spotted a delightful tomato seed collection out of the corner of my eye which I wasn't able to resist. Along with my other seeds from realseeds.co.uk my planting list is starting to look impressive (and marginally unachievable in the space I have):

• Serrano Peppers
• Potato 'Mimi'
• Potato 'Harlequin'
• Mange Tout 'Golden Sweet'
• White Beetroot
• Aubergine 'Fairy Tale F1'
• Tomato 'Orange Berry'
• Tomato 'San Marzano 2'
• Tomato 'Costuluto Fiorentino'
• Tomato 'Red Pear'
• Tomato 'Ildi'
• Tomato 'Tigerella'
• Onion 'Helens Welsh Siberian'
• Radish
• Cucumber 'Wautoma'
• Endive 'Bianca Riccia da Taglio'
• Climbing French Beans 'Cherokee Trail of Tears'
• Courgette Dwarf 'Verde di Milano'
• Patty-Pan Squash 'Pattison Orange'
• Winter Squash 'Butternut'

Not to mention that I am still waiting for the delivery of some raspberry canes and I snaffled some very cheap blueberry and gooseberry bushes from Lidl. It's going to be a tight squeeze...