At last!

   I am sitting here typing this and the sun is shinning (17th April). I am feeling mellow after lighting up the BBQ and having had a burger and a glass or two of rose wine for lunch. Guess what? Not much done in the garden this afternoon!
   I cannot believe another week and more has passed. Work in the garden has involved transplanting tomatoes to pots, digging up leeks, pulling radish and sowing a whole range of seeds! (Cucumber Wautoma, La Diva, Gergana (new this year), courgettes, basil, water melon). I also transplanted some Jack Ice lettuce to a small poly tunnel bed. We have now started to eat the lettuce I bought a couple of weeks ago at the local market and transplanted into the poly tunnel. The early potatoes are now showing and I now must check them every evening and cover up if they show themselves. Frost can be expected in this part of France until mid May.
  On the animal front normal weekly maintenance (clean out coops). Three ewes have been moved to my back garden to get the grass down. Today (17/04) a ewe gave birth to a ewe lamb. Our female duck has a poorly leg but she is  getting around ok. The chickens are laying reasonably well but could do better.
  As always lots of work to do. More seeds to sow, more grass to cut, compost heaps to relocate and a host of other jobs to many to mention. 

Emerging rhubarb

Early potatoes start to show