Keep on digging

The plot is beginning to become a little bit of an obsession. I've been working so hard at it! I've finally managed to dig it all over once, and now I'm on my second round, removing bucketsfull of tenacious grassroots by hand, and spreading compost over the newly clean bits.

I spent all of Friday night thinking about seeds. I found an organic seeds seller online, so I made a huge list of everything that seemed desirable. Now there is the difficulty of actually making decisions!


Do I want the sweet yellow tomatoes, or the high yielding ones with good disease resistance, or the pink ones with reputedly the best flavour, or the pear-shaped cocktail ones? The striped, tasty courgette or the most prolific ones? And how many herbs can I fit into my herb patch? One thing I really, really wanted though: crocosmias. Ever since I spent a summer in Ireland, surrounded by gorgeous bursts of orange flowers everywhere, they have been my favourites. However, the most readily available variety seems to be a red one, when I definitely wanted orange ones! Imagine my delight when I discovered these two packets of mixed crocosmias under a stack of Dahlias in Homebase:



So I will have orange ones after all! I can't want to plant them. I think I will try and order all my seeds today! So exciting!