Go! Go! Go!

   It is all go in the garden. Even the cherry trees are now showing signs of going into blossom burst. Onions, shallots, lettuce, radish, parsnips all growing away! I have even seen one (yes only one) pea popping its head up. Seeds in the poly tunnel are germinating and it will only be a couple of days before I will have to start transplanting tomato plants to individual pots. Finally got the last of the potatoes planted dodging rain showers at the end. First lot of carrots are in along with some spring onions. Spring onions (White Lisbon) are a hit and miss in my garden. The only success I really had was when I grew them over winter,  however, it has been wet so a sowing is worth the gamble. Just the melon bed now to clear of weeds. A mammoth effort this last week in getting the last large plot cleared. Among the weeds were a good crop of carrots! I had forgotten about them and the weeds had hidden them from view.
   On the animal front the egg production this last week has been an average of three a day. Not brilliant but good enough. Hopefully now the weather is getting warmer and drier more of the hens will lay consistently. Sheep are being sheep and are enjoying the sunshine. The ducks are being ducks. No duck eggs yet though.
  As a comparison the pictures are of Red Sun shallots taken on the 22nd February and the 7th April. 

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