Over the past few days (and for a few more to come), I’ve been potting up tomatoes. The ones showing at least a reasonable amount of their first true leaves are going into pots that should be large enough to see them through to the point they get planted out in the polytunnel next month. The exception will be ones that put on particularly big growth before I’m ready to plant them – I don’t want healthy plants being checked because their roots are getting congested.

The BBQ we had yesterday was fortuitous because several of the items we had to cook came in plastic trays just at the point when I was wondering how to accommodate more pots on the end of the dining room table (our best light source – my grow lights – is kept for the younger seedlings).

The other advantage of potting up, apart from not impeding plant growth, is that it has freed up space for some more plants to get a start. I got some squash and courgette seeds going yesterday in my heated propagation space and some kale today, which should be ready for harvests in the summer, autumn and beyond.