I sowed tomatoes, chilli, aubergines and basil indoors over the last month and my window cills are now well and truly crowded. For flowers I also sowed cosmos (purity) and snap dragon (royal wedding).

Today I made my first sowing outdoors of beetroot (boltardy and choggia), broccoli (summer purple), leeks (musselborugh), and salad leaves ( bright and spicy and ‘baby leaves’). The garlic planted several weeks ago looks to be doing well and the early broccoli is at last cropping. A few leeks are also still going as is the perpetual spinach and some salad leaves that have been going all winter (the rocket bolted in the last  week).

In the greenhouse I have sown sugar snap peas in a gutter for transferring outside once it has germinated and some calabrese , kavalo nero  and cos lettuce in modules. I also sowed night scented stock in modules.

Full steam ahead!