Is that your pile of dead leaves?

Well, the net result of spending 2 months on the frontline at the other end of the country was that everything in the tunnel and everywhere else pretty much died except for the runner beans.

The runner beans had a bumper year on the other hand and clearly benefited from the lack of supervision.  We had soooo many beans.  I even salted some, tho to be honest, looking at them now, I really hope we never get that hungry.  They've kind of turned into a vegetable 'dwarf bread equivalent'.

The bottle of beans apart, last year was pretty much a bust so on with the motley, a new year beckons.

I haven't ventured out into the garden yet,  there's a bit of a pile up in the utility room and I don't have any mountaineering gear to hand.  I have, however, recieved the first of the gardening catalogues and spent many happy hours leafing through it and deciding which seeds to go look for on the internetz.

So after extensive research (playing on the net) and cross referencing (googling stuff) and considerable agonising, I have put in my first order for this year's seeds.  I am attempting to be more disciplined about it than usual by making a list of things I want to grow and dividing it into sowing months.   Thus all the seeds on the order are sowable now.  In theory this will stop the usual May bottleneck where I suddenly have more plants than space LOL.

So here it is:

	Tomato Black Russian 50 seeds
	Tomato Gardener's Delight 100 seeds
	Tomato Roma VF 100 seeds
	Aubergine Black Beauty 200 seeds
	Hot Pepper - Habanero Orange 25 seeds
	Hot Pepper - Tepin 10 seeds
	Sweet Pepper D'asti Giallo 50 seeds
	Onion Braunschweigi 300 seeds
	Cauliflower All The Year Round 200 seeds
	Mangetout Pea Oregon Sugar Pod 200 seeds Strawberry white soul Strawberry regina