I’ve never been particularly green-fingered. In fact, that’s understating it: I’m a plant killer.

You’ll see a few posts back (part of the ill-fated photo a day experiment… a theme?) that I had a lovely Bonsai tree which, in only a few weeks, I managed to reduce to some dry brown leaves and brittle sticks. I did everything right: gave it water when I was supposed to, fed it a special Bonsai food when it needed it, gave it the right amount of sun. Still, it died. It’s very possible that the cat had something to do with its untimely demise, but I’m pretty sure it was cursed as soon as it was picked up by me.

So maybe a Bonsai was too tricky a plant to start off with – even the lovely old folks on Gardener’s Question Time admit to killing the odd one, right? On to something a bit easier: err, vegetables.

Let’s see how long these guys last.