Picked out first strawberry today :o) A high in a month of gardening lows - my seedlings were massacred by slugs :o(

I planted some more peas on Monday as none of the others i planted appeared to have come up. Then i noticed at least 3 as i was raking over the ground [sigh]. Still, i have done it properly this time and planted them in a trough. Last time i used the dibber and think i ended up sowing them too deep.

I have also planted my first row of French Beans, under the mini polytunnel, in case we have a late frost.

Feel like i am so behind already. Would have been nice to get out today, as it's fine, but dd is unwell and fast asleep at the mo.

Garlic is doing nicely 

Planted my peas at the weekend. I'm sure it is earlier than I normally plant them but then it is unusual for me to be ahead of schedule so I could be wrong! Anyway, i have planted one row and will plant another one later on. Can't remember the variety but its not one i have grown before.

The onions have come up and so have the lettuces though they look to have been nibbled a bit :o( Oh, and the tadpoles have hatched!

Well, the frogspawn is in the pond so it must be time to start blogging again.

Went to the garden centre to stock up on a few seeds i was missing and ended up buying one of those mini greenhouses. I *should* have had a proper greenhouse by now but what with the house alterations and one thing and another it had been postponed yet again. Anyway i'm pleased with my mini one and it is surprising how much stuff you can get in it!

Spent Saturday doing all the tidying we should have done back end of last year and mick cut the lawns. We look almost respectable now ;o)

In the veg garden...


Vegetable Plot


Sunday, i planted the onion sets that we got several weeks ago. These are in the bottom end of bed 2. The top end of bed 2 has the garlic that mick planted a while ago. I also managed to squeeze a row each of Salad Onions (White Lisbon), Cos Lettuce (Remus RZ) and Mixed Salad leaves into this bed - oh and some Nasteriums to (hopefully) stop the blackfly attacking my veg (worked last year, so fingers crossed).

We prepared Bed 1 for the peas and beans by puting the canes and netting up. I have also got a small poly tunnel here as i am hoping to plant some early beans. I'm doing French beans (Neckar Queen) as in previous years as they are lovely. Can't decide if to bother with runners. I have loads of seed saved from last year but we didn't like them as much as the French Beans so they just ended up in the freezer. Fair enough you might say but we didn't really enjoy them as they were rather stringy - partly because they hadn't been picked soon enough i think.


Beds 1 and 2