Potatoes

Well, I fianlly did it. I got the potatoes in the ground!

They are on a slope so it was an interesting logistics exercise making sure I had enough of a gap between the rows to ensure I wouldn't uncover the ptoatoes above whilst clumping.

I planted mainly Dutch Cream and King Edward, but I did replant two rogues that popped up in the soil I turned up for the summer garden.





The plum tree has blossoms and the mystery tree above it has started to blossom. There are not a huge number of blossoms on the plum but enough for eating. We may not have a store of plum jam to get us through the year this time around. The tree above the plum has pink blossums, we are slowly getting closer to identying it.

The peaches have started to blossom and I even found a couple of little grape hyasinth in the garden. Nothing seems to be coming up where I want the sand pit, so it looks like that is ready to be built.

 The avocado our wonderful landlords so generously gave us has buds on it (lots of them)! How wonderful if we get avocados in the first season!

 The little garden outside the back door gets almost no sun in winter, but the sun has moved and the morning sun now streams in throguh there. The lettuces and herbs have sprung up. I just need to work out what to do with it in winter....



This is the summer garden. I haven't planted anything yet - but my celery is ready to go in and I will try to get the fences up (to keep the chooks out) this weekend. Just a low fence - the chooks don't go into that area anyway. We will see how high I need to make it... The pots that are in the background are my temporary solution to needing something to hold the raised bed in place. I am going to fill them with soil as well and plant marigolds (or something like that - maybe herbs not sure yet) in them. They will do for this year as I have them and they will do the job. Over the summer one of my aims to to find something more permament. My MIL has terracotta pipes in the ground and they look greeat planted up with chives and the like.