It is hard to believe that it is
already the end of March. I have spent today catching up on my seed sowing for
both the garden and kitchen plot. Not a bad thing all considered as the weather
hasn’t really been fit for any of the outside jobs that needed doing. I did
manage to get the tomatoes off to an early start in February and it won’t be
long now before these will need potting on. Today I got sown peas, mangetout,
broad beans, spinach, cabbage and various flower seeds, I also managed to get
sown a row of parsnips and plant out the onion sets. For some reason last year
I had no luck what so ever with the parsnips, didn’t even get a seedling! After having great success the previous year I
have no idea what went wrong, but I have my fingers crossed for this year.
Whilst the greenhouse benches are
filling up with seed trays and young plants from last year one of the borders
is now filling up with tulips. I planted these last November, the idea being to provide cut
flowers for the house. Being in the greenhouse they are protected from the
worst of the weather, make use of my otherwise empty borders and they flower
much earlier than those planted outdoors. It was a success last year, providing
several bunches of tulips.
Last week I managed to get out
and get some lawn care done, which basically for me amounts to scarifying the
grass to get rid of some the thatch that has accumulated and putting down some
more lawn seed. Had a look at how it was doing today and it looked patchy in
places, I am sure the birds must have been eating the seed. Wouldn’t mind but
it’s not as if I don’t feed them!
The flower garden at the minute
is a mass of yellow, from the subtle shades of the native primrose to the loud
cheerfulness of the daffodils.
Everywhere you look in between there are signs of life as where once
there was bare soil it is slowly greening up, the days are getting longer and
the garden waits for no one.
