Indoor Snowflakes!

Or A snowflake to be precise. It's not all herbs and veg in our Desktop Garden, there's a few flowers too. I've already mentioned the Tulips, the first of which are already starting to fade.

Here we have a small Bacopa Snowflake plant, it's often used to trail from hanging baskets and other containers so it should look nice trailing from this brightly coloured watering-can-style pot.

Going to pot up the Spinach later, they're looking quite vigorous.

First Tulips in Bloom

Lovely! A few tulips really brighten up the place and there was not a single open flower in this pot yesterday. 

The other two types we bought are unlikely to flower for a few days yet, hopefully we'll have a steady stream.

This is more satisfying and hopefully longer lasting, than just buying the stems to put in a vase of water. Of course, in future years we'll be doing the whole thing and planting the bulbs ourselves.

Going to do something with mint tonight...

Tomatoes Progress and We Add Tulips

We returned from another trip to the Garden Centre with 3 different types of Tulip. Not really an impulse buy (honest) we had decided we needed a few flowers to spread the joy around the apartment and you can't beat bright Tulips in early Spring.

Now the Tomato seeds are just about ready to be potted up. There's only 5 so I'll have to be extra careful. We may experiment with some upside-down plant holders for these, there's a few on the market now and, presumably, saves messing about with tying then to supporting dowels etc. Though I suppose they won't then technically be on the desktop but hanging above it!