Did you enjoy some of the wonderful weather over the Easter weekend ? We had a lovely time at my in laws and Kitty certainly enjoyed the garden. She burrowed in the mud, attacked my mother-in-law's flowers and threw fallen camellia petals all over the garden ! Her Easter present was a push along lawnmower which she pushed round and round the garden. Apparently it's only suitable for over 3s..........
The allotment is taking shape well and our boysenberry is particularly bonny with lots of foliage and flowers. I finally managed to get the redcurrant and blackcurrant bushes planted in the fruit frame. You can imagine my surprise, when digging the hole for the redcurrant, to find that I had dug right into the middle of an ant nest. The currant seems to be suffering no ill effects as yet.
We have experimented with growing okra this year; as it's notoriously bad tempered I was worried when I transplanted the seedlings into the greenhouse. This worry appeared justified when I went down the following day to water them - they had all flopped. Fortunately they seem to have perked up now and are packing on some new growth. I also transplanted the physalis and padron pepper seedlings over the weekend and they are also looking happy in their new homes. Our grape vine resembles something out of Day of the Triffids and I am soon going to have to thin out the immature grape bunches.
The seeds I sowed last week (dill, borage, salad leaves, broad beans, snow & asparagus peas, brussels, leeks, courgette and gherkins) are a bit of a mixed bag. The beans and peas are resolutely refusing to budge an inch, the herbs are doing well and the courgette is already on it's 2nd set of leaves.
It all sounds great, doesn't it. Industrious.What you can't see is the two raised beds growing only weeds, the huge box of seeds still to be sown, the chitting potatoes that need planting out into an as-yet undetermined area, the tomato seedlings that desperately need transplanting and the myriad of other jobs on the Allotment To Do List. Oh well, maybe this year will be the one where I get my wish of an extra 2 hours in the day.....
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