Nine aubergine seeds have now germinated, 6 black beauty and 3 long purple - black beauty definitely the easiest.  I have now sown some peppers.  Also parsnips, brussels sprouts and feltham first peas in the greenhouse.  Some of the garlic - Iberian Wight- is in the ground at the allotment along with all the broad beans.  Potatoes are chitting - mimi, roseval, sante, anya.  Raspberries have arrived and will hopefully go in theground today along with my shallots - longor.