What a difference…

with last week’s frosty nights making way for this week’s warm sunshine!

The beetroot, carrots, mixed leaf salad, radish and spring onions have all started growing.  I’ve sown all the borlotti, French and runner beans as well as  more flowers including four varieties of nasturtiums!

Only about a dozen broad beans have germinated so I think that I’ll give up on these, dig them up and sow a couple of courgette Black Beauty and pumpkin Hooligan F1 Hybrid !

The potatoes have spouted new foliage, and I accidently dug this one up which I put back to hopefully grow somewhat bigger !

The teasels have self seeded, a couple of which I’ll let grow full size, and  several  gladioli have appeared  above ground during the week.

The aquilegias have all flowered, and I remembered to stake and tie the stems  to prevent them being toppled by the wind, which happened last year. This white one is new

Plot plant of the week, and which perfectly matches this glorious weather, is the poached egg plantI recently moved some that had self-seeded last year and this week they’ve been flowering profusely.  I’ve also got them as my new header picture.

I caught a glimpse of a fox nearby during the week, and Joe told me that he’d disturbed one resting on the old carpet which covers George’s compost heap which is adjacent to the plot just across the grass path.  A few small holes have been dug on plot as well so perhaps it’s Fox Digger! I’ll be a bit more forgiving if I get to see and photograph him.

Happy gardening!