And they're off……….

Things are really starting to kick in to life now. After the false start at Easter where the temperature dropped loads and it snowed, the weather has warmed up a little. I’ve moved seedlings from inside in to the two growhouses. In the photos below there are two varieties of sweetpeas, a summer cabbage (Hispi), a selection of squashes/courgettes (Black Beauty, Golden and Yellow Scallop). Outside the growhouses the garlic is still going strong and the blueberry bush is also coming into flower after its first winter. Off to plant my free seeds from BBC Gardeners World Magazine.

Flower bed number 1

After a lot of digging (with a big help from my mum) and adding manure and topsoil the first flower bed is now ready for planting. We’ve also put up some trellis to screen the row of wheelie bins (the sweet peas will screen them completely) and also some wing trellis to divide off the bed from the veg area. The only plants in the bed so far are three of the roses (Rosemoor), four foxgloves (Albino) and an evergreen clematis (a present from my mum). This side of the garden has really progressed now – fortunately you can’t see the mess behind me!

One small step for our garden….

Well maybe not a giant leap for vegkind but quite a bit of progress. There are actually plants in the soil!. The garlic which was started off in modules in the winter have been moved in to the raised beds. The variety is Lautrec Wight from Thompson and Morgan. I’ve also got two growhouses from Homebase (tied to the wall to stop them blowing away in the wind – a lesson learned which is why one is smaller than the other). In the bags along the fence on the right are chitted potatoes, also from Thompson and Morgan (a mix of 6 different earlies in these grow bag/pot things). And in the pots strewn all over the place are bare root perennials bought back in the winter (when nobody was after plants and they were cheap) ready to go in the flower beds – I’ll tell you about the varieties when I plant them. Oh and I should add the soil/manure to finish filling the beds came from somebody I found off the internet (Dow’s Garden Supplies) and it is probably the best you can get. Definitely recommended and very friendly (and I’m not on commission!).