Where is spring?

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Back from two weeks in Australia and thinking of my garden on the long dreary flight home. But where is Spring? It’s still only 7C and promises to be cold for another week. I must get out to the allotment tomorrow to see if I have any garlic or onions. And to work out some sort of better water collection system. The hose pipe ban will be in force from Easter.

I have checked over the seedlings that haven’t been loved while I was away. The peas are romping away; so too the sweet peas. They look way too leggy for me. But it’s just too cold to put them into more light. I’ll keep pinching out the tips and hoping for the best. Two of the beetroots didn’t sprout. So I have replanted. And the okra seeds were a damp squib so I have replanted but don’t hope for much.

David has very generously brought back from Yarrow some gardening tools for the future misery of garden weeds and joy for seeds – a hoe, rake, half moon and a pair of knee pads. Very kind of John Holden to pass on such old tools for the next generation.

Vegetable: Celeriac Monarch
How many?: 4
How planted?: Jiffy 7s
Notes: In a warm heated room

Vegetable: Purple Sprouting Broccoli Summer
How many?: 4
How planted?: Jiffy 7s
Notes: In a warm heated room

Vegetable: Dwarf French Bean Maxi
How many?: 2
How planted?: Jiffy 7s
Notes: In a warm heated room