Back to the beginning

In this flush of new found enthusiasm for this blogging malarky, I'd like to take you back to the beginning, well not actually the beginning but you know what I mean. The house I live in has no real garden so to speak, it has a rear yard with small borders around the outside, planted up with a citrus tree of some orangey persuasion, a once rampant bourgainvillea - now pruned to within an inch of it's life, boy are they spikey and a plumbago. As this is where we are likely to be spending a fair proportion of the year outside eating (and drinking) is going to be full of flowers

On the other side of the house was a concreted area and some wasteland, I plan on getting rid of the concrete and "nicking" as much of the land as I can possibly get away with - this bit is going to be a mixture of all sorts, chilli's, aubergines, tomatoes and herbs are to be planted with sweetpeas, beans, sunflowers and whatever else I can get to grow in there.

Things that are easy to come by back in the UK are a tad more difficult here, couldn't find any seeds trays, so margerine pots and containers from our all too frequent takeaways are being re-cycled, an SOS was sent and answered by friends back home for seeds and plant labels. So since November I've been sowing, pricking out and maybe gloating just a bit to said friends about how much earlier I could get things in !!!
Courtesy of Amazon a seedhouse house (you know one of them plastic mini greenhousey things) and a heated propagator have arrived and are now stuffed full of tomatoes, chillis, lavendars, pelargoniums, tagetes, calendula, datura, and some more stuff that I can't actually remember without going to have a look.
Right off to sow some aubergines, I'll be back at some unspecified point in the future depending on how long I manage to maintain this level of enthusiasm......