Garden moves

This weekend saw blazing sunshine on Saturday so a day spent in the garden, planting out bedding plants, sowing more seeds, potting up seedlings, planting out Hooligan Pumpkins under fleece.  I'm incredibly pleased at how the yard garden is coming up (above).  Looking at the photo below from the last week of March it really is bursting into life.  The delphiniums are even avoiding the usual slug buffet.

I try and keep the yard in good order as this is where the shower and pantry are based. It's a nice peaceful area which catches the sun and there are few places I would rather be on a sunny day with a newspaper and an espresso.

After a sunny Saturday, Sunday was drizzly but it was good to see the newly transplanted plants drinking up the water after so many dry days.

I wish we'd kept count last year on the dry vs wet days, this year does feel much dryer and sunnier.  It's impossible to look back retrospectively at the weather forecasts as they are so often so very wrong.  Heavy rain forecast when it's dry and steaming hot, sunny intervals forecast when in reality it's a drizzling grey tupperware sky day.

So from now on I'm going to keep my own Berridon Farm weather record.  And today... is sunny!