Getting on with it!

Cherry Blossom

First asparagus spur

     Spring has now arrived with gusto! It is warm and sunny, the ground is damp and that means....growth! Yep, once more the time has arrived where everything just grows madly which unfortunately includes the grass! I am mowing in earnest now and if I admit it I should be mowing weekly if not every four or five days. The upside is that all my seeds and vegetables are also growing well. Touch wood there has been little or no frost and with every passing day it get more unlikely that there will be any of serious note. Still, last frost day here is the middle of May!
   In the poly tunnel the first asparagus spur has appeared and is ready to cut. I have not seen anymore but they must be there somewhere! My "Christmas" potatoes have so far survived and I have spied small potatoes. Fingers crossed there will be a boiling of new potatoes shortly. Ethel Watkins best, Gardeners Delight (Irish variety!) tomato plants have been transplanted to pots along with Aubergines and Golden Primo cabbage. Other seeds have germinated (Basil, French Marigolds, Nictoiana, Moss parsley to mention a few). The Roma tomatoes in the fleece cloche are now well established and starting to put on growth. There are peas on the pea plants and the Louvier cabbage is heartening up. Salad bowl lettuce seedlings are now established.
   Lots going on in the outside garden as well. Jerusalem artichokes, Orca, Belle De Fontenay potatoes and Franceline potatoes have been planted. Latvian soup peas and Oskar peas have been transplanted to an outside bed and are looking good currently under a cloche to keep the chickens off. Starting peas off in seed trays looks to be a sure way of making sure that they germinate successfully and foils the mice and chickens! I have bought more Maris De Bois strawberry plants and have prepared and populated the third strawberry bed. Weeding between the garlic and field beans continues with an increasing amount of flowers appearing on the beans. I am continuing to prepare more beds to meet the increasing demand of plants needing to be transplanted.  
   Phew! I need to take a breath and suck on a stubby of Kings Brau!