A Growing Revolution?

Don't you just love this time of year?



Every day, you can take a wander around your garden and find a new flower blooming here or a new shoot emerging from it's winter hideaway deep underground there. It's just SO exciting!



I realise that my excitement is probably only shared by fellow garden enthusiasts but I believe our green fingered habits are beginning to spread like overgrowing Spring Bulbs eager to 'Go Forth and Multiply'. There seems to be an overwhelming wave of interest in growing plants and in particular, plants that you can eat. You've only to look at the ridiculously long waiting lists for allotments here in the UK to realise that something's growing in the wonderful world that is gardening. Surely the estimated 100,000 people, sat waiting eagerly for a phone call from the green spaces department at their local councils informing them that they can have an allotment,can find a tiny patch of earth somewhere; even if it's just a pot of soil outside their front door. That's all you need to get growing.



Despite having an okay-sized garden crammed full of a variety of plants, I've just started growing myself a little (60cm diameter) salad pot. Split into thirds, I've sprinkled mixed lettuce and spring onions seeds and planted a tomato plant (purchased from the nearby garden centre because I'm quite impatient), all in a matter of minutes. Now, two weeks on, the tomato's settled in nicely, the lettuce leaves are forming lettuce leaf shapes and the spring onions are a healthy two inches high already. At this rate, it won't be long before I can enjoy three out of my five a day by simply picking them out of my garden - easy!