Driving home today we passed an elderly couple at the end of the street, husband and wife were out gardening at the front of their property. It made me a little jealous as in my household I am the only one who gardens. I bought some more lettuce seedlings at the weekend – hubby was curious as to why when we already had lettuce plants? I had to explain to him how plants work and if you don’t keep planting them you run out! Hubby lives by the philosophy that he doesn’t do gardening but he has been happy to eat our lettuces especially in his favourite weekend treat of BLTs. My other lettuces that I am growing from seed in my toilet rolls are mostly an experiment – I don’t have too much hope that first time around I will actually get them through to full grown lettuces. It was an exciting weekend with my peas finally forming pods – shouldn’t be too long now before I can start eating them. My poor tomatoes are flowering but not sure how they will turn out in the long run as last week there was hardly a drop of sunshine to be seen and tomatoes need about eight hours a day. You win some, you lose some when you garden – it definitely isn’t a perfect science but it’s quite satisfying trying.
