2014 season

April was a warm month so ideally plants should have got going early on.

I germinated a mixture of tomato seeds  indoors, in a propagator a bit too early.  They germinated well enough but then became straggly and began toppling over, unable to cope with their great height.  I should have  waited a bit and not been so impatient.

Lettuce in the greenhouse germinated quickly, only to be scoffed rapidly by a team of hungry slugs.  Agghhhhh!

I sowed peas in a gutter but the mice fancied those.

A cheap packet of summer squash seeds from Lidl  did prove to be a success though.  The germination rate was high and the plants looked healthy and promising.  Once planted out they began to cover the ground in a verdant mass of thick leaves.

 

A year has gone!

I don’t know what happened.  A whole year has passed since the last post.

The garden is still a jungle though, probably even more so after abusy summer with rampant vegetation growth.

I took this image last year, of a Comma butterfly on the Michaelmas daisies.

Let’s move on to 2014!