The forlorn and forgotten of the greenhouse

Every year I start with the best of intentions and enthusiasm, starting off as many plants as I can in the greenhouse or the cold frame, most of which make it to their final growing place on the plot.

But a critical scan of the greenhouse today revealed some hangers-on that should have been dealt with by now: Several 2" pots of chives, some geraniums still in their seed trays, the spare tomato plants still in the germination pots and a sad looking pumpkin plant drooping over the staging.

It's like this every year - there are always some plants left to linger in too-small pots, way past their best and stunted, but hangin in there. I keep watering them instead of just accepting that I don't need them or I've left it too late and should really just chuck them out -

Is it just me? Why can't I throw them on the compost heap instead of torturing them in the greenhouse?     

I'm glad I'm not the only one.....I was waiting for some decent weather.

Too late now.

I thought everybody did it 

I'm still getting over the trauma of last weekend when I cleared my greenhouse out    

On the cull list  :

Outdoor bush toms that were huge in their pots, but no room inside and I was worried if I put them in the garden, they would get blight and spread it to the indoor lot. No point planting out on the allotment as signs of blight up there already on other people's stuff  

Bush cukes - salvaged a couple and rigged up a polythene cloche for them

Yellow pattypans - sure I didn't plant these.  Some rotter is abandoning their spares in my greenhouse surely    Probably a plant swap earlier in the year but were spindly yellow leaved sicklies that were not up to much  

At least I can get in the door now