The weather has improved enormously and I have been able to get quite a lot of work done on the allotment and my garden at home. On Monday I planted up a small container with about six compartments for herbs. I sited this just outside our back door where Margaret can get to it and pick herbs for her cooking. The Camellia bush has sprung into flower with a lot more buds to blossom, I also have my first tulip flower of this season in bloom.
The allotment is beginning to take shape at last, all of the dormant fruit bushes and strawberry plants are coming back to life with nice fresh green leaves. The over wintering onions are growing well and my spinach is sprouting new leaves. The leeks and sprouting broccoli are now finished and I will have to turn those two beds over and apply some manure.
I planted my second early potatoes today even though the first earlies have not pushed through yet, I also planted a second row of radishes to follow the last row that is now showing through and growing nicely. My allotment friend Tony, gave me some chickory plants as he had a surplus.
I planted my second early potatoes today even though the first earlies have not pushed through yet, I also planted a second row of radishes to follow the last row that is now showing through and growing nicely. My allotment friend Tony, gave me some chickory plants as he had a surplus.
I have done a bit more work in the garden this evening. I planted two lovely Celosia plants in tubs and sited them where our garden arch used to stand. They look terrific, I have never grown these plants before and I am hopeful that we will be able to keep them going if there is a late frost. I also replaced an Acer plant that had sadly come to the end of life, nothing lives forever I guess.
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