Daffs Up

          The first daffs are up and it's starting to feel like spring.

Sprung Greens

The start of the purple sprouting broccoli season and the last of the leek and kale harvests (apart from a few leeks left to fatten during the coming weeks, or left to flower and seed).

A Host

Lungful

What better way to spend the sunset hours after a busy day outside than listening to Richard James aka Aphex Twin as the featured artist on Stuart Maconie's BBC6 Music show. I've always particularly liked 'Acrid avid jam shred'.



Anyhow, back to the land.

Sowed :

Peas
Mangetout
Carrots
Parsnips
Fennel
Spinach
Butternut Squash

Sweet Peas
Sunflowers
Cosmos
Night Scented Stock

Planted Out :

Potatoes
Lupins
Peas

Harvested :

Kale
Chard
Spinach
Parsnips




Parsnips



Spinach



Kale (spent twenty minutes rearranging the nets on all the surviving brassicas)



Garlic's looking good



Daphne (not mine) is smelling divine - you can get the waft of the sweet citrus smell 20 metres away.



Opening at last this week.

Observer Blubs

Since getting into gardening, this time of year always brings a sense of urgency. There's so much to do; sowing, planting, taking cuttings, watering, controlling pests. So it's nice to sit back once in a while, to enjoy the daffs planted in the autumn, before burying the newly arrived summer flowering bulbs from an offer in The Observer.



Not exactly LIVE PLANTS, more like dormant bits of wood which don't need to be opened or planted with quite the sense of urgency that the capital letters convey.