Ta da!!
My pond is finished and looking good. I'm really pleased. Within a couple of days of it being filled with water, there were pond skaters skimming over the surface. A very nice lady contacted me to see if I wanted some lillies (which of course I did) and they came with their own newts! How lovely. On to more sobering news. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that a hole had been dug in my purple sprouting broccoli patch, and that there was poo in it! Last weekend I noticed another hole with more poo. My allotment neighbour, who's a bit of an officianado about badgers, told me that my broccoli patch was now being used as a badger 'latrine'!!!!!! So, despite wire fencing around the entire allotment, and netting secured (I thought) around the broccoli patch, they still got in and obviously liked it so much they made themselves at home. Oh well. On to more pleasant things. I'm still cropping purple sprouting and spinach. Many herbs are coming through and I've got lettuces, cabbages, beans, pumkins, sweetcorn, all doing well. My physalis is now in the greenhouse but not liking the cold nights much. I've also planted half of my lentils in a cloche (not happy) and the other half in the greenhouse (happier) along with some sprouted fenugreek that got too leggy! My broad beans that have been in for a month are doing fine, and I've got another batch hardening off. I happened to go to a garden centre at the weekend, and was amazed at the range of veg plants they have available. Many of them, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, were grown on to a considerable size. I wondered how many people got lulled into a false sense of security and have planted them out, only to loose them because of the cold nights and occasional frosts? I err on the side of caution, and leave tender things until the beginning of June. I hate loosing anything. Next up, sowing amaranth and quinoa seeds. I really enjoyed learning how to thresh them last year - think my neighbours thought I was mad though!
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