Blue sky day and bulbs

A beautiful blue sky day at Houghton today and early in the morning you could still see the moon up there. I did some weeding and hoeing around the garden ending up at the Peacock garden deadheading Marigolds and weeding mainly Euphorbia Petty Spurge, which is everywhere.

Later I was asked to check through and clean the Hyacinth bulbs ready for Spring bedding. Three big bags of different colours and each bulb was checked for mould/damage/disease. I managed to take some pictures today as I have been away for a week and the garden has gone crackers. Our veg plot has come on a lot, the purple French Beans look pretty and the Beets are almost ready. Our Brassicas have been munched to death by caterpillars unfortunately, so they had to go.

Andrew has planted another herb bed with natural dye plants and that looks great. The Pumpkins are enormous and the lettuces grown in the Hydroponicum have popped up looking like little pots of curly hair!

Great to see things moving on.