Spring into the Garden
One of the fab things about taking on a new garden is that you don’t know what is in it. So the Spring is full of surprises. March gave us a slope covered in violets and the promise of rhubbarb. The violets have now been replaced with a mass of primulas in all shades, along with the indigo coloured self-heal and forget-me-nots. Its an absolute picture and very popular with the bees, I’m glad to say.
We have a lot of bumbles, some seem to be residents, and we have been visited by honey bees as well. I’ve bought a WBC hive which is ready to assemble should a swarm decide to hang in one of our trees. If not, I shall have to buy a nucleus next year.
I’m also trying a bit of an experiment with potatoes. I didn’t have time to prepare a bed, so I put the seed potatoes into a few cardboard boxes, covered them with compost and just plonked them on the ground to do as they pleased. I’ve seen at least six poke through so I’ll just keep covering them with compost and look forward some fresh picked spuds later in the year. With any luck, they will have done some prep work on my potential veg plot as well.