A bit of panic here on Tuesday evening as the weathermen were predicting a ground frost. Dashed round everything, covering with fleece or propagator lids - even inside the greenhouse. Not sure if we really needed to but with tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes and beans getting quite large, it seemed better to be safe than sorry.
Haven't had rain for several weeks - slight drizzle about the beginning of April was the last. Everywhere has been dry and dusty. Rhubarb flopping over with lack of water. Seedlings needing to be watered twice a day. A change at last this weekend - lots of rain, followed by sunshine and everywhere now looking much healthier.
Starting many years ago with a small number of pale-flowered ones, I now have a garden full of aquilegias in many colours. They're all self-set - some in the flower beds but many spring up in the veg patch and have to be moved.
cut into the last of our pumpkins for last night's dinner
Guess what?? Radishes again!!
foxgloves, feverfew and welsh poppies -
the little forest of sycamore seedlings is just destined for the compost heap though!
Back from a short break to find all the later-flowering trees covered n blossom - rowan, lilacs and laburnum
After a week's holiday - returning to an empty fridge - I felt very lucky to be able to lift radish and salad leaves straight from the garden for lunch!
Also picked - early purple sprouting broccoli - still only from one plant though I'm hoping 2 others will crop soon - and running-to-seed brussels
and another handful of radish from the allotment
