Well here we are, another week of on off rain, with intermittant sun - sort of. I've been hardening off my broad beans - they can tolerate the fairly low temperatures but they're suffering with the rain battering them so I'm keeping them in when we're due a deluge (I know I know, I'm being overprotective probably!). 
Broad Beans
Aubergines, melons and peppers are all potted up, leeks and spring onions have sprung, and my lentils, well you'd be proud. They're about 2" (5cm) tall now, and in the greenhouse. I've been trying to find out some more information about growing them, and Garden Organic were able to answer quite a lot of my questions. Lentils like hot and dry weather with poor soil I was told, and promptly fell on the floor laughing!!! All that work adding compost and enriching the soil etc, our summers! Oh well, we'll see how they get on. I've got a large closh they can go in.
Pond Filling Up
Pond's coming along. It's filled now, and I'm looking for some (affordable and preferrably recycled) edging. After that I can buy some pond plants and wait for the animals to arrive. In my pond at my old house I had newts, toads, frogs, and loads of other insects - pond skaters were one. I used to get disappointed when I lifted a rock, and there were the frogs keeping house with the slugs! I didn't train them very well! A friend gave me a terracota chimney top - the thing that keeps out the rain - and I'm going to place it by the pond for the frogs (and slugs probably!). Time for tea I think.
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