After returning from work in Toulouse for a week (it’s a hard life I know!), I was delighted to see the potatoes had grown to 15 cm in height and were ready for more compost.

As you can see, the charlotte potatoes (top) have shown much more growth than the pentland javelins (bottom). 
Just over a month [...]

We are now into April so it’s time to stop worrying about cold nights and ground frost as we pass “Last Frost Day”.  Things are looking a lot greener on the balcony already.

To celebrate, I tranplanted out some of the lettuce and broccoli seedlings and direct-sowed the dwarf borlotti beans and the climbing beans. The [...]

Last frost is this week (or so I am informed by hearsay) so I transplanted the harbinger and cherry tomatoes out in the balcony greenhouse.

I first planted the tomatoes in seed trays in February. Then, in early March I moved two of each type (harbinger and cherry) to their own containers (10-15 cm in diameter). [...]