It’s time to decide what vegetables you want to grow and start ordering. At Jersey Plants Direct you can order some of these fantastic tomato plants and they will be delivered in March!
Jersey Plants Direct have lots of offers available and many more vegetable plants available to order.
They have lots of types of tomato available.
Mixed Tomatoes Pack which contains Tomato Gardener’s Delight, Tumbling Tom Red F1 and Shirley.
Tomato Gardener’s Delight
Tomato Tumbling Tom Red F1
Tomato Shirley F1
Tomato Sweet & Neat
Tomato Supremo Cherry Red
Tomato Supremo Beef Red
Tomato Supremo Plum Red
Tomato Supremo Tasty Red

Tomato Tumbling Tom Red F1 12 Jumbo Ready Plants £9.99
This variety of Tomato is perfect for hanging baskets and containers producing an abundance of sweet Cherry Tomatoes throughout the summer. It needs little training just let it grow and enjoy.Harvesting time is from July to October.These vegetable plants can be grown on or planted straight out as you choose once the risk of frost has gone.These Jumbo Ready Plants are grown in individual cells and measure approximately 8-12cm in height from the root of the plant to the top of the stem.To ensure that your plants arrive in the best possible condition each product will be despatched individually.Plants will be despatched during March.

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It’s intermittantly lovely out there. The sun keeps hiding behind a cloud which makes the temperature dip. We monitor the greenhouse temperature with a sensor so we can see just how much the sunshine heats up the greenhouse!

Outside the chives are looking excellent. I should really be using more of them – they’re starting to flower! They’re a pretty flower which is why I don’t mind – and if you leave them the flowers create seeds for passing on to other people.
Buy Chive seeds at unwins – there’s several to buy including Chives Fine Leaved Seeds which are the normal ones as well as Garlic Chives Seeds.

My tomato plants are starting to grow! As you’d expect of course – but the number of them we have it’s going to be a squeeze in the greenhouse.

I’ve got some moneymaker, marmande , some Garden Pearl and some San Marzano ones which are plum tomatoes.
The marmande are big beef tomatoes and the garden pearls are cherry tomatoes. I decided to grow different types as it’ll be interesting to taste them all and see what differences there are.
You can buy tomato plants using the links above from Unwins.
I’ve also got some basil growing – so I can make a tomato and basil salad!

The peas are coming on nicely – they’re outside but in pots. And fingers crossed the slugs haven’t got them yet! I’ve got my nemotode slug killer which I’m going to read the instructions on thoroughly tonight!

I’ve got three types of onions! Red, white and spring!
The onions grow from sets – apart from the spring onions which grow from seed. They look quite similar – although the spring onions are tiny and delicate!
The idea is that the main onions get started in a pot and then get put in the ground. The bloke on the allotment did this and got some amazing onions at the end of the season! Also the garden isn’t quite ready for planting in yet!
The ones on the left are spring onions!

If you grow chives then when you thin them out pass some on to a friend who’s got a garden. They look so pretty even in a front garden and you never know when you want some to eat!
The lawn needs cutting again but it can wait another day or two yet!