What a wonderful day - and free spuds anyone?

I'm a happy bunny now. Spent a pleasant hour or two pottering in the greenhouse. Sick man even managed to watch the kids for me for 20 minutes whilst I finished up. On my windowsill I now have two seed trays full of little peat pots (the kind that come in strips, 2 by 5, and each little pot is about 1.5" square). I can't quite get 5 of these double strips into one seed tray, so the gap has three 2" diameter round pots wedged in it.

And I sowed: heh heh - ready?

Tomatoes - Gardener's Delight, Great White Beefsteak, Maya, Snow White, Red Fig, Golden Roma and Balconi Red. 5 of each. I also planted 1 each of Lescana, Black Krim, Ballade and 2 of Vjerino Paradijz Sjeme. Yes, honestly, that's a tomato variety! I have no idea what any of the last 4 varieties look or taste like, but it'll be an interesting experiment. It's amazing what you can find when you go mooching around in a fridge full of seeds...

Peppers - Cubanelle, Californian Wonder, Corno di Torro (all sweet), Tobasco and Donetsk Ukranian (both chilis)

Melon - Gold Mine Cantaloupe, Sweet Crimson Watermelon, Golden Midget Watermelon, Kolchonitsa Ukranian Melob

Eggplant - Caspar, Cucumber - Armenian Yard Long

Peas - Telephone, Laxton's Progress No.9, Green Arrow, Alaskan, Twinkle, Balmoral (these were sown in 2" round pots and left in the greenhouse - peas don't like it too hot)

And a test tray of Primo cabbage. Yes, it's a fruit day, but that's why I've done them. :)

Tomorrow I'm going to chuck a few broad beans in apple juice pots - ran out of time today.

But for now, I'm going to put my offspring to bed, run myself a bath and have a nice long soak whilst I read my new magazines - Kitchen Garden (which came with two packs of seeds, Hot and Spicy Peppers and Mixed Lettuce Leaves) and the all new first ever edition of Grown Your Own (anyone seen Saving Grace? lol) and that came with two packets of seed too, little round Carrot Paris Market and Broccoli Romanesco! Cool.

Oh - and the free potatoes. Grow Your Own mag came with a backing sheet on which there are a few free offers. The best of which is an offer for 5 free tubers of the super new salad potato Anya. It's a cross between Pink Fir Apple and Charlotte, two of the tastiest salad spuds around. I've already bought some from Thompson & Morgan. But if you want to try some, you just have to pay 83p P&P. Bargain, eh? The phone number is 01473 695225 and you need to quote 'Grow Your Own offer'. :)