Looking on the bright side.

Five reasons to be cheerful, despite the rain!

Tomatoes are FINALLY beginning to turn red - not just the very early Latah we have been eating for a couple of weeks, but the "maincrop" varieties.

Lots of salad leaves waiting to be planted out.

Peppers are setting nicely. This is a HSL "Yellow Banana"

Pickings from the polytunnel for lunch. The bag contains Watercress

And finally - I bought a second hand Can O Worms from a friend - Tom Cat decided it would be a good place to doze! Tommy had an encounter with a Weasel earlier in the week and has had to see Holly the vet, as a result - he got a bit ripped about :-( but he managed to finally kill the Weasel - brave but foolish puss we say.

He deserves a comfy place to snoze in the sunshine after protecting us all from a Weasel!

Tomato plants

These were about six inches high a month ago. My how they have grown! They are more than 2 feet high, now! Some with flowers on them!

This year I have grown Pink Cherry, Red Cherry, Aunty Madge, Gardeners Delight (Cherry toms)

Costoluto Fiorentino, Costoluto Genovese, Big Boy, Beefsteak, Black Russian, Atkins stuffing, Carlton (Beef toms)

Shirley, Moneymaker, Latah, Roma, Golden Sunrise, Yellow Perfection ("normal" sized toms)

I have already sold some and have others "in waiting" to be collected by people who asked me to grow particular varieties.

I have about 170 plants all growing well, some in the cold frame in side the polytunnel and some hardening off in the Polytunnel itself. I cover them all over with fleece at night just in case we get a cold night as temperatures can get quite low inside a Polytunnel at night!

The peppers, Californian Wonder, Nardullo, Marconi Rosso, Romano and Hot Cayenne chilli, are all doing well. They love the heat of the double glazed porch so will stay in there until the nights are a bit warmer, then I will put them out in to the Polytunnel also.