Honey Delight and Brandy Wine

Steve and I have ended the day feeling very satisfied with ourselves. All of the tomato plants are in the polytunnel.

There are 30 in all.

The varieties are: -

Artisan Yellow, Costaluto, Honey Delight, Rosello, Marmande, San Marzano and Brandy Wine. 

They are staked and protected with very necessary, old net curtains.

I couldn`t bear to pull up the echium in full bloom.

We have had a good tidy up in there as well. It tends to collect junk over the winter. I found a lot more fairy bits and pieces so they are now in the fairy gardens.

Steve began the preparation in the middle bed. That will be for aubergines and peppers later on.

My other jobs included scattering 21 packets of bought and home-saved seeds all round the garden. Poppies, larkspur, cosmos, tobacco plant, foxgloves, californian poppies.

It will be very exciting to see what will come up.

And I had a tray of statice Pink Pokers .... a new dried flower for me. It was lovely to plant in damp soil after some rain recently.

The aquilegia grow like weeds at the garden and this is their peak time. 

Anne has created this wonderful dinosaur garden with her grandchildren. It was a lovely surprise. Its in an old water trough. Visitors are going to love it.

Things are coming together very well and the rain, albeit scant, was most welcome.