A Celebration of Spring Growth
Your old home is needed. Out you go!
2 Crested Cream Legbars and 2 Cornish Dark Indian Game chicks take on the outside world. It didn't take long to start squabbling over a worm! |
Meanwhile, in the veg garden, fending for themselves...
Glad I held off with the potatoes, or I'd have been busy heaping soil on new sprouts to protect them from the frost. |
Parsnips pushing through |
Turnips should give a quick crop |
Broad beans always seem to take an eternity to come up |
Up come the peas |
And the first asparagus - two different types. I won't harvest much this year, but from next year I can take as much as I like till about June.
The natives are well advanced now.
I love Red Dead-Nettle, but not as much as the bees. |
And in the orchard the young plums are in full blossom.
While, in the protection of the greenhouse...
These young lavenders are doing brilliantly. Reckon I should get well over 100 plants for the price of a packet of seeds. |
Young poached-egg plants, excellent for bees and hoverflies. They will go under the fruit trees where the hoverfly larvae will munch any nasty aphids. |
and how many Gypsophila plants will I have? |
All my pepper seedlings are looking very healthy this year. |
Back in the herb bed the Angelica is going mad - now in its second year it will flower and produce thousands of seeds.
And, judging by this sequence of events, young guinea is definitely a female
Bring on frost-free nights, then things really start moving!
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