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The seedlings are doing really well, the cucumbers so well infact that they have had to be put into their very own little 3 inch pots already. The rest of the seedlings have been watered and next week either given some feed or will be moved into individual pots and placed in the cold frame.

Progress

The seedlings on the whole are doing well. Some of the pots are now showing growth and we are looking good apart from one area! the herbs. I struggled last year with them and this year its proving even harder as they are all doing really badly, just dying so much. The spring onions are following suite pretty quickly so I hope the ones I plant straight into the soil outside do the business for me! The cucumbers, tomatoes, chillies and courgettes are all doing really well and last years speedy growers the sweetcorn are having a slow start this year. We wont panic as I planted them quite early so we still have time to use the heated propagators with a new batch if any thing really struggles!

TOP tip

After looking around on the net I found a few good little tips that will save you some money and get you some good guides at the same time. After looking around I found a magazine subscription that gives you free seeds and a book worth £25. Its called GROW YOUR OWN and is really cheap, its £17.50 for 6 months so with the book, mag and free seeds and vouchers you will be quids in!

Tip 2, go to allotment.org.uk and buy either or both “Veg Growing Month by Month” and “Essential Allotment Guide UK” you get about £10’s of Sutton’s seeds and also the books! they are £7.49 each including delivery so you get two books and £20’s of seeds for £15! perfect way to start your green fingering future.

Tip 3, want to get cheap seeds and fruit / veg feed? well go to the 99p store and you get 4 packets of seeds with the longest dates I could find with 2/3 years and they grow well. The feed is really good, it works as good as anything else you can buy from places like BnQ. Obviously the more expensive stuff is alot better but for the first timer or semi-pro gardener you wont need the posh stuff any how.

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Well this is more a tail of how 1 digit in a meter reading makes all the difference. Last year around August, Southern Electric and Gas decided to pull me away from British Gas, I had some crap times and large bills with them so I thought that when the guy knocked at the door, offered me a better rate that I was going to be laughing to the bank. I was wrong, after the guy signed me up, he submitted a reading for me.

It meant that in two days I went from 8000 odd units to 2000 units and then when I submitted the readings this week I am back to 8000 odd. So intotal I used 25years of gas in just 3 months. This is all based on the average 2 bed semi! I can not for the life of me work out how I could use that lol, thats like my roads whole usage being dumped on me for those three months, infact I think it would include the road next to me, as I think that would add up to 100 2 bed houses.

I love some good stats and maths and had never worked out my gas usage and how changing a few digits could matter so much! trust me it does.

So make sure you submit your readings and not only that, you double check them and try to do them often online as that way little things like this wont come up, hopefully.

Well its finally come about, a long weekend! cant wait, tomorrow I have a couple of projects to finish off and two tables to build for my office! The tables will hold my home brew equipment.

Then Saturday, some weeding and a new home brew to do, along side that I will continue the work on some projects I have on the go.

Sunday, well not sure but it will be a few bit here and there.

Monday, security day, will be installing my CCTV camera that has been sitting doing nothing to join the other, plus two flood lights so that I can see in the garden when it gets dark!