I know this weekend (on the food front) is all about chocolate – eggs, bunnies, chicks with a few fruited buns thrown in for good measure!
But it’s also a good time for thinking ahead to warmer weather. Long sunny days and indulging in flavours and foods even more delicious than those wrapped in bright, coloured foil (I like those too but the name of this site is a clue to my ranking of absolute favourites!)
So for the tomato lover turned grower Easter weekend (2009 timings) is probably the last opportunity to grow tomatoes from seed for this summer. There’s still plenty of time to buy plants and grow our own that way but to experience the excitement (and if you are anything like me, astonishment) that comes from the miracle of sticking a tiny dried seed into a pot of mud, adding water and watching a green shoot emerge then this is the weekend to do it!
It takes about 7 – 8 weeks from sowing the seeds for tomato plants to reach the right size for planting out into their final position. (Final position being the container and spot where they will grow and ripen from through the summer.)
7- 8 weeks from this weekend takes us to the last weekend of May/first weekend in June. All being well and with a good summer on our side we should be eating our Easter tomatoes in early to mid August.
So if as well as indulging in chocolate this weekend, it also makes your mouth water to think ahead to indulging in handfuls of delicious, sweet, home grown tomatoes then over the next few days please join me in a tomato seed sowing weekend.
Tomorrow I will be posting a list of what you need to hand including which tomato seeds to choose and on Saturday I’ll post an Easter weekend step by step guide on how to sow your seeds.
