The clocks
have gone forward and finally we can look forward to warmer weather and lighter
evenings, but I’m sure we will still get the inevitable ‘April Showers’ as well
as night frosts. My greenhouse has started to overflow with tiny seedlings and
it’s all to easy to get carried away and want to plant them into my Veggie
Garden but they all need hardening off for at least a month, although I have
planted out my Sweet Peas on a south facing wall where they have been basking
in the morning sun and already started to climb. At the weekend I noticed a few asparagus spears poking through the soil, I was very excited at the thought of picking my first crop as I have waited 3 years for the bed to establish. The next morning they had been annihilated by slugs and snails!! So now is the time to wage war on slugs and snails, I’ve been keeping a daily eye out for them and been picking them off and my Chickens have been having a feast!
Lin
Our keen amateur gardener!
