Potting up

I have given away the seven (which turned into nine when a couple more seeds popped up after being transplanted into the eggbox) magazine-tomatoes, transplanted the three best 'heritage' tomatoes into a large pot for growing on and given away the other three in improvised paper pots (an empty spice jar turns out to make a toilet-roll-sized flower pot former), and transplanted the three best towel-tomatoes likewise into a large pot, while retaining the rest in the smaller pot they came from. ( Read more... )

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Three of my four expensive individual red chilli seeds have germinated, although they are not looking very vigorous or developing (or even opening their seed-leaves) to any appreciable degree, so I'm a bit worried that they may just damp off before getting anywhere. I'm trying to keep the pot warm, which means moving it desperately around indoors and out :-(