All Together Now

Yum, yum. Most of the bloggers I follow seem to have been harvesting their first strawberries of the year, so I thought I'd share our first ones too. Mmm, they're a very sweet variety. Unfortunately we don't know what variety, but we'll be sure to take further runners for plotting on.

I have a week off work and a long sunny weekend meant we got quite a lot done and really feel we're ready for June to provide us with all that this lovely month promises! Though there's still a lot of empty space on the plots.

We've dug holes and put plenty of manure in them ready and waiting for various plants e.g, squashes and runner beans. We've earthed up the potatoes in the ground and in bags.
Jamie's planted and netted the Amazing cauliflower. I've planted out the Crookneck Summer squash, Asparagus pea and Borlotti beans. We're waiting for the other squash plants to get a bit bigger before they're planted out, but germination hasn't been that great.

Meanwhile the pond a wildlife area (aka raspberry bed) is looking cheerful with the addition of a houseleek pot (thanks Joanne) - I'm hoping the houseleeks will spread over the edge of the pond. The lily beetles returned to the lily flowers and have nibbled quite a few of the buds, so they may not be as impressive as they were last year.

Our sunny weekend wasn't all spent on the plot so here's a photo of the Carnival of Animals we enjoyed in Newbury - lots of people enjoying the evening sunshine and giant puppets.

I love this anthem by The Farm - join in :-) And it'll very soon be World Cup time again - yippee!