The tomatoes are ripening apace and the delicious Brandywines are the star performers – huge and delicious.  I’m currently addicted to tomato sandwiches.  The turbo peppers from Suttons are also performing well – far better than the non-grafted varieties.

Tomatoes are elbowing practically everything else out of the way and it looks like it will be a good crop.  Hippeastrums are spending the summer under the staging and benefit from regular tomato feed to build the bulbs.

The tomatoes are romping up their supports with second or third flower trusses opening. Like last year, the Brandywine tomatoes are proving to be very leggy with a good 60cm between the trusses, so there’s a likelihood that they will hit the roof of the greenhouse before the third truss.  If they weren’t so overwhelmingly delicious I wouldn’t grow them again.  The peppers are planted in an old wine box and look very happy and the zinnias are coming on nicely.  I’ll plant them out on my return.  I’ve moved nearly everything else outside.

In the greenhouse: As soon as the wind changes to a less chilly direction I can get on with moving more of the young plants out so that I can plant my tomato plants in their Grow Bags.  The dahlia tubers are now sprouting.  The strawberries that I kept under glass are now flowering so I have moved them outdoors where they can be pollinated.

The peas I planted in a gutter some weeks ago have finally emerged and the broad beans I sowed in Roottrainers are also stirring. The sweet peas are begging me to plant them outside, but I need to prepare their bed first.