We're only a little over a week into the lighter nights and already I'm not keen. I struggle with lighter nights much more than when the nights draw in, I find it hard to call it a day and be done when It's still light, It seems there is always one more thing that has to be done and then before you know it it's time for bed! I need to be stricter with myself, set myself a reasonable cut off time for the day to be done.
I have been making the most of the nice weather though and spent some time Monday afternoon at the allotment and got carrots and radish seeds in and also planted some of the onions I'd started off at home, (thank you to whoever mentioned starting them in cells, I'm sorry I can't remember who it was now to give you credit).
I've covered them all in mesh just until the seeds start to pop up, then I'll set them free.
I've tidied my greenhouse out again and moved some of my sweet peas and sunflowers into there. Mark got me a couple pieces of wood to make more shelving space, I have plenty more seedlings to go in there over the next few weeks. Everything is doing really well at the moment, the only things that don't seem to be showing any signs of life yet are the dahlia's.
I made the mistake of sewing my runner been too early and now they are already quite big and it's still not warm enough to put them out! They're in decent sized pots so I'm hoping they will be ok until at least the end of the month.
I bought two dozen hazel sticks locally from fb market place so we are all set up ready to plant them out once the weather warms up a bit more.
We have a strawberry patch all planted up and a few more added today because I drove past somewhere that was selling them for 50p each, couldn't pass up that bargain.
I collected our Spring seed pack today, we get a free one twice a year, 26 packets of mostly veg and salad but there are some flowers in there too. Looks like I'll be busy again over the weekend, ha ha.
And there is a plug plant party at the allotment on Saturday morning so I'll be going to see what's on offer, they are all free so might as well take advantage.
My garden is coming to life too with all the sunshine we've been having.
My hosta's have grown such a lot in a week and there are alliums popping up all over, the Pieris is putting on a lovely show.
I came across this photograph on Google showing a completely cloud-free sky across the whole of the British Isles, apparently the image, which was taken on April 2nd, was so clear that sediment patterns could be seen off the coast. March was the sunniest since records began with 185.8 hours of sunshine. It has certainly been a lovely start to Spring, much better than last year when we had snow and sleet in April.
We are still getting wonderful blue sky's here, although we are forecast some much needed rain on Sunday and into the following week, the kids break up for Easter on Friday so of course it was going to rain, lol.
In-between all the outside jobs I have been knitting and stitching and I will share an update on that next time.
Take care
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