Out of the Blue

Here’s a colourful and tasty meal we had in the week - at home (we haven’t decided to join the throngs in freezing pub gardens!). Lovely fried gnocchi with Vivera ‘bacon’ and veg. Delicious.

I look forward to eating home-grown again but this year seems to be taking a long time getting started. This weekend has been beautiful weather, with blue sky, hot days but the nights are still dropping below zero. We woke up to these Altocumulus undulatus clouds this morning, rather impressive, aren’t they? 

They burnt off quite quickly and we spent several hours on the plot. I planted out the Shiraz mangetout and dug a hole filled with manure for a courgette in a few weeks time.

Our pepper plants were delivered this week: Denver, Milena and Chelsea. We potted them on and they look much happier. They’ll stay at home for a while until they’re a bit bigger.

We also received the plants for the bog garden which I planted up today.

Some look a bit dead, but I hope they recover and grow in the HAHA wildlife plot bog garden. We intend to sow the wildflower seeds over the rest of the plot in the next week or two, we really want it to rain but it’s been in very short supply so far this Spring. Attempting a bog garden in a dry year - that would be typical wouldn’t it? 🙄

Another delivery this week, and the reason for this blog title, was this lovely card from my cousin Jen. So nice to get something unexpected and interesting in the post!

And, the card is even more interesting, because look what’s on the back! What a fab gift. A collection of seeds for the wildlife plot. So thoughtful - thanks so much Jen! I’ve mentioned Jen before, she’s a very creative lady - visit her Freshwinds Garden blog here.

Aah, how lovely it is to be back on the allotment. We’ve had a few lunchtimes there just to sit in the sun. We’ve seen swifts/swallows/martens (not necessarily all three of those), Canada geese and a heron as well as the usual red kites and buzzards flying overhead. There were also lots of Brimstone, Peacock and Orange Tip butterflies today - I didn’t manage to photograph any of that! But I did photograph Diane’s lovely selection of tulips and a few daffs.

The song title is provided by Roxy Music.