Progress report.

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. 

After! Looks like a real fence now.

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.

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.

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!