Someone should have told these cows they needed to lie down! Yes - rain. It started this morning while we were out for a walk, and pretty much continued all day. It might even still be doing it - I feel little inclination to go and look!
On the plus side, the veg we have planted is growing like the clappers - the broad beans have masses of flowers, the kale is coming along nicely, and the runner beans are starting to reach their way towards the frame they will climb up. On the fruit side, the gooseberries are swelling beautifully - we’ll be picking some at the weekend, and the redcurrants are starting to colour now too. Three of the tomato plants look like probably giving us some fruit - the others have some catching up to do! Not a bad little collection for people without an actual garden, eh - three of those items are in a patch about 6’ x 3’ outside one window, two of the others are in a smaller area outside another, and the tomatoes are in pots on the balcony. There are some herbs too, Rosemary, savoury, sage, some parsley and coriander although those are mostly going to seed now, and a bay tree.
I’m looking forward to being able to eat more home grown stuff this year - and yes, it will be as a direct result of lockdown as usually we have too little time to give to managing to get much growing. Time, let’s face it, is not somehing we are short of, right now!
Robyn.
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