The Fruit and Veg Have Arrived

After long weeks working knee deep in mud and under the torrential rain of the winter, creating a new and improved vegetable patch, it's all starting to come together now that summer is on the way. We've (well my aunt) has planted copious amounts of fruit and veg, a huge strawberry patch and a nursery of plants and young trees. Everything is now blossoming, fruiting and lots of it is ready to eat.

Peas, spinach, lettuce, herbs, garlic, onions and (my favorite) strawberries are coming up by the dozen. I've stopped bothering cooking for breakfast and lunch and taken to just sitting in the vegetable patch and munching on anything that looks remotely edible.

Now I'm looking forward to beef and cherry tomatoes, courgettes, asparagus and a hole host of 'surprise veg' that Dida has forgotten she planted.

PANSIES HAVE BEEN POTTED, PETUNIAS PLANTED AND BEANS BEDDED !! 
AND NO-ONE HOME BUT US CHICKENS.

I was racing to get the veggies on the go and the bedding plants all ready for the May Bank Holiday visitors, then the forecasters let us down again, predicting heavy rain for the whole weekend, when in fact we had mostly sunshine until Monday afternoon, which was when most people were homeward bound.

This year, along with the flowers and herbs for sale, I have young trees that I'm hoping people will take

home as a memento of Cerenety... I have to admit you'd be hard pushed to find a Christmas fairy small 

enough for these little fella's but they've got "high hopes".

Well, must go, the tomatoes need watering,

hope to see you soon, whilst the blossom is still out.

Dida the Digger.