Vegetabley things are going on again here and I feel so proud of all my little seedlings as they burst forth from their little compost beds.

It's a very magical thing to take a tiny dry brown seed and nurture it into a little plant and even better when you know it's going to be producing delicious things to eat in a few months time. After starting in earnest last year I am now completely hooked on growing veg and have quite a selection of seedlings ready to plant out for this season:

mangetout peas, dwarf french beans, tomatoes large and small, summer cabbage, tenderstem broccoli, oak leaf lettuce, courgettes and basil which will all be joining the carrots, parsnips, spring and maincrop onions, cos lettuce, potatoes and rocket that are already in the beds.

I'll no doubt be boring you rigid with more pictures of my garden produce in the coming months – sorry in advance!

Here in our garden there's one true sign that spring has arrived – the blossoming of our old plum tree.

She pretties herself up with masses of frothy white blossom and if you wander around the garden at dusk there's such a delicate, beautiful scent in the air – for me the signature scent of spring.

It's late this year though. When I look back at previous years posts about blossoming they were all in february or march and this year here we are in April.

 

Still better late than never as they say! Time to get planting the veg beds in earnest now.