My attempt at growing veg

It has been my plan for quite some time that, once we knew we would live in the same house for some time, I would attempt to grow some vegetables. I did a practice run last year, by randomly sowing some seeds from Pomodorino tomatoes (which grew fantastically), and getting hold of a few strawberries.

I started the tomatoes off a bit late unfortunately, but it was still worth doing for the experience. So this year, I'm reasonably organised, except for not having any space prepared in the garden!

However, if most things can be started off in pots (and indeed some things left in them permanently), then I've a little longer before that becomes a problem.

So far I have sowed seeds for two types of onion (Ailsa Craig and Brunswick), some Coriander, and Delphiniums.

Ok, so the last ones aren't veg, but my intention is not to turn the whole garden into a veg plot. Geoff Hamilton wrote a lovely book about growing decorative and edible plants in mixed patches, stopping some of the problems cause by growing mono-cultures. Plus it can look prettier than straight rows of isolated veg.

My first few seedlings aren't looking overly healthy, so I bought some fine compost especially for the job, and will see what I can do with that. It looks like March is the month when it all gets hectic - lots of the seeds I have state that as their first month for planting.

Still not found the camera, so here is a picture of last year's tomato seedlings: