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| March 2013 |
This year however we have kept on top of the Winter jobs, and at the beginning of March the garden looked like this:
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| March 2014. Not a bad starting place at all! |
Of course this has been aided by a really mild winter and a truly beautiful start to Spring. The game has also been changed by our lovely greenhouse, which has given us the opportunity to give the hardier seedings an early start.
That said, the greenhouse is not currently heated so a lot of the seeds are still started off in the house on our windowsill propagators. Charlie has had great fun planting seeds, if fact he could be accused of having got a little carried away. Poor Minion 2 has had his windowsill conscripted and at one point I even discovered chilli seeds in my airing cupboard (I have to admit to having a slight hissy-fit over this and they were quickly evicted….well….there was nowhere to keep the towels!!).
Lots more has happened this month…in fact Charlie has been like a man possessed… see if you can spot what he's been up to…
The most notable difference is the missing apple tree (Charlie's idea, he said it was because it was old, knarled and didn't produce very nice apples, but between you and me, I suspect it was just an excuse for him to use his new chain saw * ) . A sad loss, but I have to admit we have a much better view of the greenhouse. We are going to plant another apple tree in the chicken enclosure to replace it. Charlie also built a cloche for the peas and squeezed in an extra raised bed. He's very handy! All-in-all a good start to the year and we're looking forward to, what will hopefully be, a great season.
*Charlie has a, some would say, slightly worrying penchant for things that cut, chop and saw. If I ever go missing…just bear this in mind.
That said, the greenhouse is not currently heated so a lot of the seeds are still started off in the house on our windowsill propagators. Charlie has had great fun planting seeds, if fact he could be accused of having got a little carried away. Poor Minion 2 has had his windowsill conscripted and at one point I even discovered chilli seeds in my airing cupboard (I have to admit to having a slight hissy-fit over this and they were quickly evicted….well….there was nowhere to keep the towels!!).
Lots more has happened this month…in fact Charlie has been like a man possessed… see if you can spot what he's been up to…
The most notable difference is the missing apple tree (Charlie's idea, he said it was because it was old, knarled and didn't produce very nice apples, but between you and me, I suspect it was just an excuse for him to use his new chain saw * ) . A sad loss, but I have to admit we have a much better view of the greenhouse. We are going to plant another apple tree in the chicken enclosure to replace it. Charlie also built a cloche for the peas and squeezed in an extra raised bed. He's very handy! All-in-all a good start to the year and we're looking forward to, what will hopefully be, a great season.
*Charlie has a, some would say, slightly worrying penchant for things that cut, chop and saw. If I ever go missing…just bear this in mind.
