A weekend with some sun - just what we needed. Gave us a good chance to start catching up on things and to move ahead with this years plantings.
In the front garden we divided 1 of the beds into 3 little plots, and planted 1 plot with carrot seed - in 2 weeks we will plant the 2nd plot and in 4 weeks the 3rd plot. Hopefully this will result in a nice slightly staggered harvest rather than the 2 week glut we had last year. OH also planted up another of the beds with parsnips. They may take a while before they are ready to eat, but, along with carrots, I think they are one of the best tasting vegies to come from the garden - the taste when fresh is completely different from any you can buy in the shops - including farm shops. We always try to cook our carrots and parsnips within an hour of digging them up - they are so much sweeter.
Then it was onto the raised bed, and now there are splashes of green all over it from lettuce, cauli, and cabbage seedling. Radish and beetroot seeds have gone in too.
Then it was the herb pots - planted some new basil, oragano and rhubarb (original was looking a bit scraggly after the frosts)
Then the patio (groan) - we are having electricity and water run to the brick-built shed to the side of our patio. To save cost im doing all the ground work we can, so cue 2 days of back breaking work with a kango and various spades, shovels and forks as we chopped though the 6 inch slab of concrete and flinty-chalky soil beneath it.
So we hurt like hell and have an interesting collection of bruises, but at long last things are planted in the ground!!!!!
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
