How Many Tomato Plants are too Many?

I only managed one small customer quilt this week as I was busy doing other jobs, including stock taking many varieties of calico…

It was a bank holiday weekend! I have been helping Jo to jazz up her back yard and we started on painting the walls and fence which always takes far more paint than you can imagine. I watered down the pale lilac masonry paint to get a base on the roughcast walls. There should be a law against those, particularly ones done in black granite. I am hoping that Jo might be able to find a sprayer in the back of her shed because using a brush takes ages.

I did a bit of garden “pot-tering” and have had to relocate some things to the derelict garden next door. I bought a bag of bargain seed potatoes for £1.00 so put some in boxes, some in rough ground and still had some left which I gave to my neighbour. 

I replaced the dead pansies in my baked bean tin garden with marigolds, planted tomatoes, strawberries and runner beans. I still have raspberries, hollyhocks, dwarf beans and tomatoes coming mail order plus the tomato seeds I sowed in my greenhouse have all germinated! If they all grow I will just have to preserve them.

My last chore of the long weekend will be to scrub all of the soil and paint off my hands.