The parade of the tomatoes happens each morning and afternoon. The tomatoes spend their nights in the house and each morning the trays are carried to the greenhouse where they spend their day in the light and warmth. Each afternoon the greenhouse starts to get shady, the temperature drops, and I carry them all back into the house. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours," as Mr Bennet says. And I make good sport for my neighbours, parading tomatoes and all my gardening mishaps. The peppers and chillies also get paraded but only two chillies and one pepper have grown enough to be potted on. After I bought them a heat mat and everything. Ungrateful things. A bunch of the tomatoes died but the rest seem to have stabilised. They are still very much on the small side. Some okra germinated, then that died. The cabbages were thoroughly mowed by slugs in the greenhouse but may pull through. I watch Emma's Allotment Diaries and she plays a game every time she arrives at the…
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