I've started linking my water butts so I have overflow water butts. This means that when the main butt that comes off the diverter is full, the overflow pipe (DIY job) starts to fill the second water butt. I just had to make sure that the first one is about 6 inches higher off the ground than the second one. I ran out of water last year during a particularly dry spell and had to draw it off the mains, so this year I have doubled the capacity.

I've got a lot going on outside - my potatoes are in 30 litre pots and have become triffids, so I must be doing something right there. I've still got spring cabbage, white onions, red onions, garlic, walking onions, and lettuce and the peas are all coming on nicely. My greenhouse is rammed with melon plants, and my two little grape seedlings are getting quite big. My turnips have all come up, as have the carrots. Runner beans are big enough to plant in the ground now and I have brussel sprout seedlings in pots waiting to grow big enough to transplant. My cucumbers are in the conservatory for another three weeks before going outside. Last week I sowed spring onions, radish and purslane in troughs. I risked putting some tomatoes outside in a raised bed because they outgrew their pots and whilst the nights have been a bit cool they seem to be doing OK. I think this is because I basically turned the raised bed into a hot bed, so they have underfloor heating 😂🤞Still lots to do though and more to grow.....

I think you may be watering them too much. Also tomatoes in pots do better when watered from the bottom because that prevents damping off disease. Can you put your pots in saucers, or on a tray? Also, at this time of year, you can put them outside during the day - a gentle breeze on the plants will help strengthen the stems.

@Amanda Ayres These two are in a tiny 3 inch pot, and since potting on, have been bottom watered about once every 5 days, in a very hot conservatory. They are just starting to droop a little now because the pot is too small and they had drunk all the water! 😂I give them half an inch and they take what they need. Others may have different methods, but this is how I've grown mine for the last 3 years.

I do Like Joe Salatin - he talks so much sense.