Sunday, 4 April 2010

Happy Easter

We have been having a very lazy Easter here by the cherry tree, but OH has planted up the last of the potatoes in the redundant recycling boxes. (The council has changed the recycling system so they were surplus not nicked) Each box has 3 seed potatoes in, so 45 plants in all. They are all earlies.
Other jobs in the garden include planting out the onions which had been started in plug pots to give them a head start and putting the strawberries in the hanging baskets at the front og the house. We also have some other strawberries, I think they are alpine, in a strawberry pot in the birdbath (thought that might keep them out of reach of the slugs - we'll see.)
The broad beans are coming on well in the deep bed, but the courgettes may have been caught by the frost, OH has planted a couple of spare seeds just in case we need them. Carrot and spring onion seeds are in and lots of seedlings still growing in various parts of the house.