Everything is Shooting Up, Including The Weeds

Things are certainly in a growing mood but although the sun is shining there is a north easterly wind cooling things down and it still possible to get a frost so trying to hold back on the more tender things
I sowed carrots this year by broadcasting them over a foot wide area they are coming up with most just getting the real leaves but they are hard to see as the weeds are doing well there too and I am afraid of disturbing the carrot roots while removing the weeds

The parsnips that were chitted on a paper towel and and then grown on in root-trainers are looking good, worth all the fiddling around I think

The front garden has changed again with alium and granniebonnets adding colour

It is living up to being called a wildlife garden!we watched the sparrows teach their chicks how to feed off greenfly on the R.rugosa but only managed to snap mum

Also watched a frog over several hours just sitting on a stone managed to get this pic before he jumped in among the many tadpoles

What a Difference a Month Makes

It has been over a month since I last posted here and what a busy month it has been!
the garden is green and the pond is heaving with tadpoles

We have also been taking down the old shed in the back garden(no sheds allowed at lotty)and putting up a brand new one

the PSB and leaminton cauli have just finished and I am now harvesting spring greens
this is the last cauli

and spring greens


nearly all the summer cabbages are in and PSB,sprouts and kale are in pots waiting for a place to go. the parsnips grown in root-trainers are in and doing and carrots,beetroot and swede sown directly in the ground are coming up as are the potatoes, Ian earthed them up today as although it is very hot at the moment we could have a may frost

the greenhouse is jampacked with tomatoes,cucumbers,butternut squash,runner and french beans and seeds being started in modules to give them a good start before they go into open ground

here are 2 little friends that were won on E-bay and have settled in the garden

charming aren,t they?