Working in the garden over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend
I have talked before about how you simply can’t rush Mother Nature and quite a lot on my plot is somewhat behind where I would expect it to be by late April. In years gone by I have had Runner Beans and Peas quite well established on the Vegetable Patch by late March but this year I only got the seedlings planted out over the Easter weekend , the cold nights dragging on into April . Law of the sod of course meant no sooner were the young seedlings out than we had a hail storm the next day and now, less than a week later, we have a yellow weather earning for high winds! The poor seedings are looking a bit bedraggled already but all being well will survive but the wind is whipping across the garden as I write; the bamboo screening down one side of the garden may well take off at some point! The Cherry Tree in my garden is often in bloom in early April but the buds have remained fir mly shut a nd even now the y are only just beginning to show signs of open ing