It was cold in town this weekend, really cold. We went down for the local seed swap. (Thank you to Andy and Leanne http://www.theloopproject.co.uk/ for quietly organising this great community event). Unusually it was milder up our hill than in town. The weather had my family and the neighbours all outside for much of it, getting some jobs done in the sunshine. Some of us even getting down to one layer of clothing for a short while.
Sunset behind the shonky wonky barn on Friday evening, looking forward to many more of those.
Forgot to take a proper "before" picture, so this is a "part way there" picture. Rediscovering a raised bed. There are a couple of these, but last year they hardly got any light. My man has been getting trees and hedges under control and we are hoping for some better growing this year. There is asparagus in the front of the bed, poor crop last year but I don't think the bed has had much love in recent years. Cathie has been doing the heavy work - digging up huge nettle roots. I've been sedately hand hoeing whilst sitting on a caravan step at the side of the bed. Frustrating, but slow progress is being made. As well as nettles the beds are plagued with creeping buttercup which formes a carpet of weed last year. Perhaps we might be more on top of it this year. We are trying for the little and often approach. We will be avoiding planting much out until June this year - we learned the hard way by loosing most of our beans to frost when we put them out at the end of last May. The upside of this is that we have plenty of time to prepare the beds!
The chickens (thickens) continue to amuse, while pruning some rosemary in front of her house, Cathie discovered this.....................................
Omlette anyone? We'll be passing, we reckon these must have been laid, unnoticed, last summer when the chickens had the run of the place for a few days, we need to pluck up the courage to carefully move them somewhere. Where? A bit scared of breaking one!
From possible evil smells to amazing aromas. The wild garlic (ramsons) starting to appear. You smell it as soon as see it. There is loads in the garden, looking forward to using it.
There is also life in the blackcurrants. We've done some hopeful pruning and transplanting, fingers crossed we will improve on last year's harvest with minimal effort. From a few wild looking bushes, we now have a dedicated part of the garden with several rows of them.
Lovely to be seeing be skies and brightness in our amazing landscape.
I must take some crochet pictures to add some colour. Thanks for looking.
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