Late Winter sun

It has been a busy week and varied. I have been in three gardens, each at different stages due to their size. I planted Onions out in one. The sun has been out and birds have been chirping, bees buzzing, life is returning to the garden.

At Heale we are trying to stagger sowing to ease the process of sowing, pricking out, potting on, transplanting and as everyone does we struggle for space if we sow everything at the same time! I worked with some flowers this week, Cosmos, Zinnia, Stock, Centaura and Tithonia (new to me, research says it is a member of Sunflower family, this variety is 'Torch', an orange flower).

We continued with the ongoing process of preparing the veg garden. We are now at the stage of feeding the soil and warming it up with cloches. We are all ready now for Broad beans, Courgettes and Cucumbers. It is looking really smart and I love getting to the stage of almost planting out. Once everything begins to grow, you can sense time speeding up ahead of you, like a roller coaster you can't get off!

The sun was glorious yesterday, plants are beginning to bud, ladybirds and bees are waking up.

We took some time to collect some plants yesterday and look closely at some of the amazing things that are around us every week. Eyes down and getting on with it, means that most of the time you do not actually stop and consider the incredible structure or make up of some plants!