Movement at last

I'm pleased (and relieved) to say that over the past few days there has been a bit of progress in the seedling department of Matt's Patch.
One of the three courgettes has decided to come out and play. This is the first time I've grown courgettes so I'm very surprised by the size of the little fellow. Two great big leaves that seemed to appear from nowhere. I know the seeds are bigger than other things like pepper and tomato but the size of these leaves is ridiculous! They were instantly big!

A couple of the broad beans have also popped their heads up along with a solitary tomato plant. No news as yet from the peppers or the cucumbers. I'm readying the search party.

The salad leaves are doing well (mixed lettuce, land cress and spinach). I've sown a second crop of lettuce seeds so that there will be a constant supply for the slugs. Wouldn't want them going hungry!

A friend of ours has kindly given us some strawberry plants from their garden so now we have nine plants in total. The new ones are not as far on as the shop-bought ones but they're all doing well and I can almost see a strawberry jam production line being set up ...

Emily's sweetcorn (Incredible F1) have also been planted. To help get them started I soaked them in tepid water for about 20 mins prior to planting. The last time we grew sweetcorn they were simply rubbed with butter, covered in foil and put on the barbecue within a few minutes of being picked and tasted beautiful!

Since moving my potatoes to the sun room in the house they are doing much better with the additional light. I still have to get their containers sorted.