Lots of things have
been happening in my garden and not all of it is happening without my
in put. That awful mint green fence has been painted over with a more
sensible brown colour. I'd foolishly hoped that if I painted over the
reddish panels they'd also end up roughly the same colour in the end,
but no such luck (and I've still got one of them unpainted because
the Forsythia is in front of it) but brown and red-brown look a hell
of a lot better than green and burgundy. At some point I might have
to give the shed a going over but I don't mind that being green as
much as I did the fence, mint green just doesn't feel like a proper
fence colour.
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| After! Looks like a real fence now. |
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| The Before. I know you've seen this picture already. |
The seeds I planted a
few weeks a go have started coming through. The melons have all
germinated which is very exciting, and I'm already thinking about
melon based drinks/desserts for the summer. If they do all grow and
fruit I may have weirdest glut of all the growers I know! Courgettes
are a little a head of everything else and practically bursting from
their pots (plan for this afternoon is to pot them on) which is good
because I thought they'd dried out and died the other day.
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| Tiny leaves! |
As you can see not everything has
shown tiny leaves yet, but I'm feeling hopeful that it's only been a
few weeks and they're just going at their own pace. I think I
remember the Inca berries (Physalis) taking quite a while the last
time I grew them . On the other side, I picked up some Sweetcorn
seeds last weekend and they're starting to appear already.
The flower bed I'm
planning is pootling along, now the fence is painted I can think
about this a bit more. I've had a delivery of dirt for this bed and
the veg beds (that I still need to put together) so once I've put
down some plastic to stop the dirt running off into next doors garden
and rotting the fence it's just lots of heavy work carrying mud
about. The apple tree I discovered hiding is responding really well
to being free and has produced loads of blossoms, minus the two
clumps I accidentally knocked off trying to paint the fence behind
it.
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| Just a teenage dirtbag. |
Lots of small steps,
helped by the light evenings and the lovely weather. I've had to open
the greenhouse top flap today because I was worried about it getting
too warm, and put out my first load of washing on the line this year.
Next weekend I have two sets of parents up for Easter Sunday and I'm
hoping if the weather is nice that the garden will be in a state to
sit out in – best get cracking!
