This weekend was extremely busy in our garden. My parents were down for the weekend so they got roped in too - tee hee!

Saturday - Daddy and Grandad spent the day fence building, fence staining and making the pond safe for Millie, or should that be protecting the frogspawn from Millie??? While this was going on the rest of us got busy in the vegetable garden. I have been waiting for the beds to dry out as they were quite wet and after last weeks fine weather we were given the green light for planting - yay! We planted radishes (Saxa 2), wild rocket, lettuce (Remus RZ), spring onions (White Lisbon), garlic, shallots and onion sets. I had prepared the ground for the onions last week by digging in some organic fertiliser and once planted they were covered with netting to stop the birds pulling them up, which can apparently happen. Funny because you wouldn't imagine birds to be partial to onions and garlic!

Sunday - Today was a flower gardening day. We started the day off with a trip to the garden centre. Our front garden has been practically empty since we moved in almost a year ago so i was determined to make it ours. I am sticking to (at least attempting ) a blues/pinks/purples colour scheme with white accents. We dug out a boring old shrub and planted a lovely Spirea in it's place, next to that a blue Hydrangea. There was some Agapanthus, a few little alpines and a couple of other shrubs that i can't remember the names of also. To fill in the gaps i sowed seeds of cornflower, larkspur (a favourite of mine) and French Lavender. Finally, as DP is so impatient and insisted on some instant colour we have a few violas and pansies. It looks pretty good i think, but then anything is an improvement. I hope they all survive!!! In places the soil is very heavy and clay like. My Mum dug in loads of sand to improved drainage so hope that does the trick.

Monday - Well now we have a fence to close the back garden off from the front and the pond is covered i feel a lot more relaxed about spending time in the garden alone with Millie. Today she helped me plant up some herbs. We did parsley from seed (which i've not tried before) It said in my book to sow the seed thickly. A good job as Millie was throwing down handfuls of the stuff! Then we planted a coriander plant, will definitely need more of these, and a purple sage plant. The sage was to replace the one i pruned to death last week. Still i don't feel too guilty about that as it was really woody and needed replacing.