The start of my serious blogging

November 20, 2009 (Friday)

Today I upended the compost bin at the top of the garden to reveal a big pile of superb compost, which I am spreading on the site reserved for tomatoes.

I will be sowing several varieties of tomato in a small propagator given to me by my brother-in-law Alf, of Leicester, who is like me a keen vegetable grower.

I have rough-dug most of the garden and pulled up the beansticks, some of which can be used next spring.

In my rather battered old greenhouse (several panes of glass are missing) I am already raising two varieties of onion seed for spring planting -- they are an inch or so high -- and some cabbage and lettuce seedlings.

In the open garden, the new autumn-sown variety of onion set from seed merchants Thompson and Morgan are doing very well (on November 26 they are six inches high).

In summer I bought one tomato plant from the garden centre for 99p. From this I took enough runners to raise 15 or so plants, which seem to be coming on quite well. I have sprinkled a little bonemeal around them.

The tropical dasheen plant which Ruth brought me from Barbados is not doing so well, after a good start in summer. I don't think the colder weather suits it!

What's happened to Britain's Labour Party?

It is nothing like the party I joined many years ago. The leadership and most of the MPs seem interested only in getting their snouts in the trough. Their main aim is to get elected. They have no policies for a fairer Britain worth speaking of. They are in hock to a US power elite that wants to rule the world and siphon as much money as possible from struggling states.

Woe is me.

Windbag 22.