I'm still waiting.
Between the cold southerlies ripping through and the horrendous amounts of rain I haven't spent any time in the garden. Most of my seedlings are limping along (but not really growing) so I have some more seeds in trays but it's been so cold that they're taking forever to germinate!
On the plus side though...
-My garlic is looking awesome
-I have LOADS of potatoes come up all over my garden from last year. I only put in two small bed of spuds this year and it seems that is plenty with what else is down there.
-In amongst all my brassicas that have been in the garden since the beginning of winter and then bolted at the first sign of spring I have found 3 cauliflowers growing and looking great.
-Fruit trees (apples, feijoa, strawberries, blackberry, grapevine, lemon) are doing really well
-My rhubarb is growing crazy big this year. All I can put it down to is that I accidentally dug it out as I was preparing one of the beds over winter (it's at least 8yrs old - as long as we've been in this house and it was here when we got here). So we enjoyed a rhubarb and apple crumble a few nights back.
- My herb garden is looking better and better every week. It's really shrubbed up and not too many bare patches of soil now. I popped a few borage seedlings in that had finally sprouted.
-Wild herbs that live in my garden include - sweet violet, heartsease (a foraged one that I bought home last year), cleavers, chickweed, fumitory, dandelion and red clover (I'm cultivating patches, one of which just happen to be in my herb garden).
When out and about with the kids about a month ago I spotted a nettle patch. Since nettle is one of the wonderful tonic and restorative weeds and many of my herbal books speak of it, I decided to pluck a small bit with roots attached to take home with me and popped it into a weedy area of my garden. So if you hear me complaining of the nettle taking over well it's my own fault lol!
Went on a medicinal weed and herb walk with a friend and the kids last Saturday. Was introduced to a few new weeds that I will now keep my eye out for. Nathan really enjoyed the walk, particularly since he was recognising a lot of the weeds as ones that we gather ourselves from our garden or the neighbourhood.
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It was a long, long, lonnnngggg wait for Spring this year. It was nice to get a taste of it early on, but almost heartbreaking to have to wait so long for the real thing.
I'm sure the whole country went mad for a while over our lack of good weather!
Feels good to be out in the sun now though :) Just have to remember hats & sunscreen, always takes a while to get into that habit again!
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