We're all getting busy, now the weather, and earth, has warmed up considerably, its an endless round of weeding, watering, hoeing, mulching, planting out, bring on, netting and about a million other jobs too.
Salad leaves and pak choi in Tesco boxes.
Just planted out cabbage seedling and naturally I had to pay homage to the Pagan god of slugs....
..... Pennies around seedlings to give slugs and snails little, coppery, electric shocks... @20p per plant, and you get it back at the end of the season.
The main vegetable garden is slowly taking shape. Another two beds have been added this week alone.
Love little glimmers of Permaculture....
.....mixed salad leaves from plants that seeded themselves at the end of last season.
Strawberry flowers.
After losing two hens to the fox a few weeks back, I relented and allowed blossom to sit on another two eggs.
Apple blossom is late this year, but this means no blossom drop after late spring frosts.
The horses are still generously donating poo...
Jerusalem artichokes.
Potatoes.
Potatoes in an old compost bin, experimenting with yields this year.
Courgette.
Some of the apple trees.
This space, behind the steading, is earmarked to become a walled orchard!
Onions growing in an old muck heap....
....as are these potatoes.
Fencing nearly finished for the "Paddock paradise" track, for Badger and Mousse.
Little caravan, tool shed, needs a new lick of paint.
More potatoes, in an old chest.
Carrots.
Cabbage seedlings put to bed.
Temporary tomato house.
Sage and Marjoram.
Chives
Broccoli
Salad leaves
Basil and Parsley
More salad leaves.
Extra peas and (hopefully) squash.
Another experiment, carrots in 2lt bottles.
New book!!
First book I've come across that doesn't assume that frosts end in March.
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