Jethro's room after the clear out

Maddie's room after the clear out

Jethro's room before the big clear out!

Maddie's room before the big clear-out!

Manic May

There's more to do than time to do it in at this time of year! I have been weeding lots as the weeds grow so fast in May. But the new bed near the house is looking good and I'll take some pics for this blog when everything's in flower.

Keith has been busy getting the veg plots ready for planting.

The spuds are growing well - hope they don't get wiped out by blight this year!

Finally, Keith, Al, Jethro and Maddi spent today making a see-saw.

Wall hangings

I've been sewing seasonal wall hangings for our sitting room. I've done 2 so far (there will be 8 eventually). Here's one for Imbolc (early spring) and one for Beltane (May Day).

Lots of gardening

Loads has happened in the garden since my last post so here's an update and some piccies.

The main news is that the greenhouse is up and glazed. Putting it together was slow but not too complicated. But then we mislad a vital part and spent the day we both took off work to glaze it driving to Norfolk to get a new part! Anyway, it did get glazed the next day despite the rain. Thanks to Alex for being tall!

The new willow fedge is sprouting well.

We are behind with the veges because of the greenhouse, but Al helped this weekend preparing a bed for potatoes. Keith did lots of other digging too. Here's some before and after pics of the potato bed.

I have far too many tomato plants as usual. The seeds are so small it's hard to believe they'll ever be huge plants!

We also made a raised bed for the cut flowers. It's where the flowers were last year, but with edging so it's easier to keep tidy.

Finally, here's another gratuitous flower piccie.

Hedges

Last post for today - then it will be up to date. The reason we haven't got the greenhouse up yet is because we still had some hedges to plant before spring. Yesterday we planted hazel, and today we planted a willow fedge with the trimmings from the willow arch. I know it's not up to exhibition standard but it will do the job and only took two hours. There's just another similar piece of fedge to do next weekend before we can get on with the greenhouse.

Space for a new greenhouse

Yay! Ian finished the new base for the new greenhouse - I really miss my greenhouse, although it's still a little early to sow most seeds. The greenhouse itself is like the world's biggest piece of self assembly furniture - we plan to focus on getting it up next weekend.

Ice picks

For a couple of weeks in the middle of February we had brilliant warm days and freezing nights. One morning, I found this pretty ice by the swingy chair in the garden.

No more greenhouse

Quite a bit has happened in the garden since I last got round to filling in this diary thingy, so here's a few posts all together.

In late January we had a few friends round for Farmhouse Breakfast Day - fed them a massive breakfast then took them outside to dismantle the old greenhouse.

Here they are getting the glass out.

Pruning Day

I've pruned three trees today - the Indian bean tree in the back garden, and two apple trees, one of them a rather large Bramley. Here's some before and after piccies.