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21st June 2012.
The first courgette growing.

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18th June 2012.
The first courgette flower.

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15th June 2012.
Me with my first homegrown cauliflower.

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17th June 2012.
The potato plants taking over the patio.

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12th June 2012.
My first homegrown cauliflower still on the plant.

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10th June 2012.
One of my veg/fruit areas.
Potatoes, courgettes, strawberries, pumpkin and tomatoes.

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10th May 2012.
2 tomato plants that I planted within seconds of each other that have been kept in the same conditions. One is twice as big as the other. I repotted then last week and have the bigger one a bigger pot. They already look like they could do with potting on again.

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25th April 2012.
My pumpkin seedling. Yesterday there was just a tiny bit of green showing through the soil and today these two rather big leaves!

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17th April 2012.
The scene after my greenhouse had blown over :-(
The plant at the front is a tomato seedling I found in the pile of compost and have potted in the hope it will survive.

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14th April 2012.
I believe this is a strawberry plant that has self seeded.

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10th April 2012.
One of my potato plants beginning to grow.

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9th April 2012.
The broccoli I harvested to go with dinner. 103g of it.

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7th April 2012.
The RHS are currently running a grow your own campaign which is free to join and the first 10,000 to join get four free packets of seeds. Here they are. These would retail at over £10.

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3rd April 2012.
I won some seeds in a twitter competition. Here they are. Thanks Thompson & Morgan.

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1st April 2012.
I planted one of these seeds.

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30th March 2012.
One of my tomato seedlings that has just come through the soil.

First harvest of 2012

This is the first item I have harvested from my garden this year. I am so pleased with it. Was going to leave it a bit longer to grow bigger however realised I had no veg to go with dinner so harvested this piece of broccoli.

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15th March 2012.
Teeny tiny Brussels Sprouts seedlings just pushed through the soil surface. Just like magic.

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So it's quite hard to think of something to take a photo of when I am not really doing anything interesting.

10th January 2012.

Some of the garlic I planted last week happily growing away.

My beautiful garden

Tomatoes growing

The courgette I harvested to go in my roasted veg for dinner

My coriander plant in flower :)

Growing my own is proving fun and (excuse the pun) fruitful. I have so far harvested two courgettes and there are plenty more at various stages of growth.

I have only got 4 tomatoes between my two plants at the moment but there are plenty of flowers on them which should mean plenty of tomatoes soon.

My pepper plants (capsicum) have grown more quickly since I discovered they should be watered twice a day and started doing so.

My runner bean plants produced their first two flower buds on Monday so I am looking forward to seeing some beans soon.

Carrots are still small but seem to be growing well.

I got some more herbs to add to my collection: curry plant, basil purple ruffles and chocolate peppermint.

I did buy an aubergine plant recently but it died :( I've been very lucky with all my other plants so I can't complain really, although it does feel like a waste of money.

I have done well though as the tomato plants and runner bean plants were given to me by someone who didn't have room for them so were pretty much free. I agreed I'd give them some of the produce to say thanks.