A little bit of green...

I broke up for my Easter holidays yesterday to a grey sky and a dank weather forecast. This depressed me a bit as I can't wait to get out into the garden again...

Every evening I try and get out to see what the garden is up to but the last week has been manic so I have been a little lax about being able to peer at what the garden has been up to...

I am pleased to report there are signs of green from some of the seeds I planted a few weeks ago...

Two of the lettuce troughs are showing signs of life - but will definitely be in need of thinning out when bigger...


The herb pots are also growing though, stupidly, I cannot tell you which ones are sprouting as I forgot to label them so I look forward to the herb surprise!



The sweetcorn and spinach are still not doing anything but I will be keeping an eye on them....


Biggest success though has to be my garden mint. I thought I had well and truly killed it off last winter... But it is showing signs of life... Fingers crossed that it will continue to thrive!

Starting with the furrows...

I had a couple of hours to myself (which is a rare occurrence with a 6 month old daughter) so thought it was a perfect time to weed the vegetable patch which had got a little feral over the winter.

My husbands grandfather (my guru of everything green fingered along with my mother!) had given us an old rotovator which I hadn't used yet. So out it came... and after a good ten minutes of me working out how to start it it kicked into life - much to my amazement and shock but it managed to churn up the clay that is Yorkshire soil in no time at all.

It was then to the hard graft of picking out the weeds from the newly dug soil and then turning the patch into shallow furrows...

This was immensely pleasing and looked beautiful... My husband just gave me a withering look and just patted me on the head...

My furrows, to me, signalled the greatest beginning to what I hope will be a successful growing season...



P.s. The bushes that you can see at the back of the photo are my fig and blackcurrant plants which, by some miracle, are showing a bit of new life... I have yet to have fruit grow from these but maybe this year will be the year!