spring flowers and May showers

Its been some time since my last blog, i guess im better at reading others than writing my own!

So whats happening in the kitchen garden? "Everything " would seem the accurate answer, with seedlings popping up everywhere and the greenhouse bursting at the seams. We started cutting Asparagus on 27th April, just a couple of days after the Swallows arrived. Most of the fruit trees have finished blooming and baby Gooseberries and Redcurrants can be seen in the fruit cage. The vegetable beds look somewhat barran but, as we grow most crops in Cell Trays, this will soon change. Magical instant gardening ! Our Happy hens are still laying well, except for one Silver Grey Dorking who has gone broody. We will be moving her to a little ark and setting a clutch of eggs under her. The first Cuckoo was heard on 24th April so the Cider needs syphoning off into bottles ready for those hot summer nights which (after last year !) we are long overdue for.