Storms, Spring Flowers & Setbacks

Having been so stormy last night that I had to run down in my nightie at 1am to move the broad beans pots from the wall as they were in danger of being blown off, today was sunny & warm.

A different disaster befell the achocha seedlings, however – they have been in the mini greenhouse & had seed leaves like two huge ears, but today I found that the slugs have taken a liking to them, & I was greeted with two sad green stalks. I re-sowed & will have to rethink my slug deterrents when they germinate.

Everything was looking good at the Hill this evening – I planted out half a dozen BRUSSELS SPROUTS (falstaff), then put some weed suppressant fabric down & went to the park for more bark chippings to lay on neighbour Ted’s side of the plot, & for the path between beds a2 & b1, so it’s all shaping up rather nicely.

Julie (2nd best plot) & son K arrived to do some watering in her greenhouse, & soon came down with a big bunch of tulips for me – how kind of her, & they are so beautiful! I’m only just thinking in terms of flowers for the front of the plot, so I’m a way away from growing cutting flowers for a while yet.

Maybe I’ll be able to cut some of our daffodils next year – they have somewhat short stems, but I guess that they are doing well to flower at all given they were bought in the ‘bargain bin’ at the end of autumn & then spent a couple of months knocking about in the back of the car as I forgot all about them.

Generally fairly resilient, nature, I suppose – except in the face of slugs, perhaps...