Just Pottering

That's about the extent of it at the moment. The garden really seems in limbo as I wait for it all to grow! But I love seeing the little gains each week as the soil warms up and with the spring rains giving everything a good dowsing every week or so.

~ All silverbeet/chard seedlings are now in the ground
~ One patch of potatoes are now tall enough to have soil mounded around them (loving the ditches, certainly makes the job easier!)
~ Maori potatoes have all popped through and the rest are all up too, so we're in potato production!
~ At least a dozen self-seeded pumpkins have come up in amongst my pea/sunflower/tomato/daffodil bed - how's that for intercropping lol. Not so sure about my choice of companion planting though lol, but I don't think they despise each other but probably provide no benefits.
~ I keep finding self-seeded lettuces (and more potato plants) all around the place too which is exciting, love that! This is one of the fantastic things about producing your own compost and being onto a 2nd year of gardening I guess.
~ My new tamarillo, apple and raspberry canes are all producing leaves.
~ The plum tree has nice sized little plums forming - but does look like an in between year as there aren't many growing.
~ I've put up some bamboo poles and string for my peas to start to climb up
~ Chickens have almost completed their work on preparing all vege beds (hehe, love the way that sounds), so they'll be shunted off to the side do sit the summer out until some of the beds come free again.
~ Have dug up a few more beds in preparation for the Three Sisters combo which I hope to get in, in a few weeks time.
~ Have started to thin out my onion and carrot seedlings. I certainly have had much more success this year just getting (or able to determine the difference between carrot seedlings and weeds!) since I did the broadcasting in rows method of sowing rather than sowing individual seeds.
~ I'm fairly certain all 3 chickens have been laying for a week now. Definitely my big one and my little black one.