Spoke too soon

  Would you believe it! The border fork that I bought for my grandson turned up. When we unwrapped it the fork was a spade! Good grief! The firm I bought it from were very good and have promised to send me a fork but it will be up to two weeks before it arrives.
   On the weather front I guess I spoke too soon. The rain has returned and the ground once more became too wet to work. Despite that I have managed to weed one bed in readiness for planting Bonnette Nouirmoutier early potatoes. These potatoes are sown in February where they originate from and are one of the earliest varieties to be harvested. I grew them a couple of years ago and their foliage is quite attractive and the potatoes are really nice.
  Once more I look back over the last week and see far too many empty days in my garden log. The major items done were to clean out the duck and chicken coops! Picked some purple sprouting which is doing rather well and cursed the chickens who have taken a fancy to scratching up my onions and shallots which I notice are putting roots down.
  As always there are lots of jobs waiting to be done and the more March marches on the longer the list gets! The grass is looking like it could do with another cut. It will need to be a drier before I can attempt that. The narcissus are a picture.

  Nothing much going on on the animal front. Chickens are being chickens although I am hopeful that egg production may be picking up (famous last words). 
   It is interesting to see how the grass has grown and how much the sheep have kept it down. In the photo the dark green is grass that has not been munched by the sheep.
   As I conclude this blog there has been a frost this morning, -2C, (Tuesday 8th March 2016) but now the sun is shinning and I must get on!