New Beginnings and Old Friends

Just got back from a mornings work down at the lottie. We started yesterday by tidying up the shed. John Badger, who is feeling better now, and Julie popped up to see us and also Lionel stopped by and we all caught up with each others news and we are all ready to start the new season and stood around and admired Hazel and Julie's posh new raised beds. We also raked the leaves off the strawberries and found the beginnings of new plants. Today, we sowed cos lettuce leaves from speedy seeds which only take 3 weeks to grow so that will get us off to a good start. We also sowed cos lettuce proper, parsnips, beetroot and brought home the tomatoes (Sungold and Gardeners Delight) to propagate. Hopefully we will get good sturdy plants this year and no blight!!! We cleaned out the greenhouses and put a piece of trellis up by the side of them for our rambling rose which had rambled a little too far but nevertheless was a good buy at a pound from Wilco's last year. We had flowers off it until late October. The trellis is also for some everlasting Sweet Peas. Our hollyhock has made a good start this year already, which was a surprise because it looked like it was on its last legs. last year. Non of the geraniums that we overwintered had survived so we won't be doing that again, too cold for them. We have still a long way to go just to get started but it is a really good beginning to Spring and so exciting waiting for the little seeds to germinate.