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Last year I did a seed swap with YGG afficionado Lena - achocha for tomatoes. Brandywine, Tigerella and Pineapple (is it just me, or do they sound like a family of high concept California sisters?).

I started them ten days ago on trays on the kitchen window shelf with some clingfilm over them to keep them cosy and moist. Now they’re plants. Should be needing to be planted out in a fortnight by when the greenhouse will, on last year’s showing, be a nice place for them to live.

Seed swapping is fun and cheap and better than conventional ways of acquiring seeds on any measure you care to name. For example my tomato seeds came in cool little packets which have now become labels, viz :-

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In other news, last year’s garlic was pungent but small, so I’m trying a new wheeze, which is (A) starting it off on a sideplate with a bit of water (you see below the result of doing this for ten days) and (B) planting these growing cloves in the greenhouse. Godzilla Meets Garlic!

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