Busy busy busy!

Desiree main crop potatoes

Various squash varieties in my poly tunnelf

   A gift of a rhubarb root that was destined to be thrown away has sprouted leaves. It is amazing how resilient plants can be. So what have I been up to? Well, of course, the usual grass mowing and weeding neither of which I am able to get on top of at this time of year! It is a merry go round of mowing and weeding! More lettuce pulled from the poly tunnel, very nice too! First sowing of haricot vert made and I discovered much to my pleasure a french    equivalent to White Lisbon spring onions. A row has been sowed. My planned cabbage patch has been primed with agricultural lime and variety Cabus (bit like Greyhound cabbage, pointy!) bought at the local marked planted out. As the year progresses then late summer and winter varieties will be also planted in this bed. Looking forward to cabbage. It is so expensive here. More Touchon carrot sown. Blooming chickens have been having a fine time scratching up my rows of carefully sown beetroot and carrot! Weeded and started to prepare another bed for more carrots and beetroot. This bed had some of last years salsify growing in it so I have transplanted those and I will see what happens. I discovered that I had not sown any basil yet this year and found that I did not have any seed! Bought a french variety, Marseillais, which I had not realised until I looked it up that it is a miniature basil ideal for growing in pots and very fragrant apparently.
   On the animal front the sheep are now needing to be sheared. On the chicken front Mrs Buffy sits tight on her eight eggs, her Ixworth chick is growing as are the two still over at my daughters under a brooding lamp.
  So on we go!